National Hill Climb

andcp

Hi all,

Just to let you know that this years National Cycling Hill Climb championship is being hosted by Matlock Cycling Club on Sunday 26 October, starting at 12 pm.

It’s a little bit different this year as the route will run up one of the town’s main thoroughfares, Bank Road (the main hill). The road will be closed (traffic free) enabling spectators to get close to the competitors.

As you know, watching cycling in ‘real life’ is much more exciting than watching it on tv so come along and give the competitors a big shout as they render themselves into jelly in about two minutes!

And

JC.152

Hopefully I'll be there its the first time i'll be going to a national hill climb( as long as I get in) but other people on here have said that they have a really good atmosphere and I've watched the youtube video of the climb at Matlock.

Joe

a_n_t

we're having a club run to it, special like!

toshmund

Apparently there is a hill climb this Sunday, up to Riber Castle starting at 10 am. Followed by one up onto Beeley Moor from Rowsley, for the very energetic. Starts at midday.

toshmund

Apologies, the server was playing up. Since I am here... Matlock should be good, but the hill by Shining Cliffs at Ambergate must be worse...

JC.152

The national startsheets up on Matlocks website

http://matlock.mybikeclub.co.uk/article ... ss-release


I'm off at 37. I don't know whether others on here are riding?

toshmund

I saw the Riber and Bank Rd climbs today (cracking little cafe opened at Cromford junction, on the left hand side as you head up the hill/opposite the turn for the Via Gellia...so I was Lemon Drizzling during the Beeley Moor climb ) Major respect to anyone who took part. Mr Dobbin you looked awesome mate!!!

toshmund

Just pointing out, in case anyone is a bit concerned. Today was a bit of a dry run for next Sunday. Just clear that one up

pinerellopaul

i just saw Tejvan Pettinger today win the burrington hill climb and would maybe put him as a outsider for the title was about 20 seconds of the course record for the 2 mile climb but that was with a increasing nasty headwind as the event progressed
was very interested to hear about his use of meditate before he races and wonder if this enables him to go deeper into the pain cave

JC.152

Jim Henderson won the Mow Cop hillclimb by 20 secinds to Mark Lovatt on fixed so hes should be one to watch next Sunday.

Adam Tranter

I would have thought Matt Clinton (Mike Vaughan Cycles) would be a firm favourite, as he has beaten Jim Henderson every time he has raced against him, and has won every hill climb he has entered (that's eleven consecutive ones). He seems overlooked.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/Mat ... 70336.html

Jeff Jones

pinerellopaul wrote:

i just saw Tejvan Pettinger today win the burrington hill climb and would maybe put him as a outsider for the title was about 20 seconds of the course record for the 2 mile climb but that was with a increasing nasty headwind as the event progressed
was very interested to hear about his use of meditate before he races and wonder if this enables him to go deeper into the pain cave

The nationals won't suit him though, he said. Too short. My pick is Matt Clinton.

I did Burrington too, but didn't really get into the pain cave which I suspect was on the other side of the hill near Cheddar Gorge. Still, I was nearly half a minute quicker than last year in slow conditions, so I can't complain.

Patrick1.0

I think you have to put James Dobbin as a favourite?

Barry Roubaix

Matt Clinton is favourite. Won the Yorkshire Velo Hill Climb yesterday, beating some good riders.

http://www.yorkshirevelo.org

Bronzie

Jeff Jones wrote:

didn't really get into the pain cave which I suspect was on the other side of the hill near Cheddar Gorge.

celbianchi

Adam Tranter wrote:

I would have thought Matt Clinton (Mike Vaughan Cycles) would be a firm favourite, as he has beaten Jim Henderson every time he has raced against him, and has won every hill climb he has entered (that's eleven consecutive ones). He seems overlooked.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/Mat ... 70336.html

Agree Adam, I think Matt is going to do it. I did Otley with him, and he was a class above the rest of the field which included some excellent climbers.

pinerellopaul

Jeff Jones wrote:
didn't really get into the pain cave which I suspect was on the other side of the hill near Cheddar Gorge.
Laughing

i was thinking you meant something along the lines of last years Nat was a lot harder at chedder
then the penny dropped

very modest on your competing at burrington Jeff, you were the only other under 8 min
http://www.bristolsouthcc.co.uk/

Jeff Jones

pinerellopaul wrote:

Jeff Jones wrote:
didn't really get into the pain cave which I suspect was on the other side of the hill near Cheddar Gorge.

i was thinking you meant something along the lines of last years Nat was a lot harder at chedder then the penny dropped

Indeed I meant that as well as the reference to actual caves. I cannot resist a play on words

For some reason - not that it would have affected the result in any way - I wasn't in anything like the same amount of pain as I was after a 5min effort in the Chippenham hillclimb the previous week. That was absolute agony, and it took me a whole week to recover from it. Weird because my (estimated) wattages for both climbs were similar.

very modest on your competing at burrington Jeff, you were the only other under 8 min
(correct url) http://www.bristolsouthcc.co.uk/mysql_results/event_times.php?eid=63&X=1&h=14

I was definitely happy with my time but not surprised to get beaten by Tejvan. He is a very good climber, especially on that sort of hill. Strangely enough, it was a good way to end the season, because I've won nearly all the TTs I've done since July. Not that I've minded, but getting beaten is excellent for my motivation and will help during the winter.

JC.152

i think a lot of previews are leaving adam pinder out after hes been close to winning some hillcimbs and is the national junior champ which he'll probably be again this year

Michuel

Has Matt Clinton ridden any climbs less than 3 mins - the Bank Road climb will be done in around 2.5 minutes and is 14% average? Henderson, Clarke, Dobbin(?) seem to be fast on short steep climbs like this which has a different physio profile - maybe 65% aerobic 35% anaerobic. But Clinton is so dominant he may be able to accommodate this.

andcp

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