“Smash your Uphill Strava Time or Peak for a Hill Climb Time Trial race!”

Training plan description: Do you want to break a personal high climb record or prepare for an upcoming hill climb time trial race where you want to compete at your very best? This training plan has been specifically designed to prepare you for a hill climb time trial style effort of between 10-30 minutes in duration. Whether you live where there are no hills or in the mountains, this plan will work for you.

The plan is flexible and you can move days around and also extend the duration of rides if you are accustomed to doing more hours. You can also do the plan mostly indoors.

This plan is designed with an initial 2 weeks of threshold improvement training. The final 4 weeks' focus is to increase your VO2 max and perform specific race simulation training. You should have a good level of fitness starting this plan and be accustomed to cycling at least 5-6 hours a week on average.

The training is with Power and is designed in the Workout Builder format which provides your personalized power zones in each training session which are calculated automatically from your Threshold number inputted under settings. Additional benefits of the Workout Builder format include direct training session sync to your Garmin or Wahoo device and training session upload to Zwift, TrainingRoad, CycleOps and more.

Designed by former professional and multiple national champion coach Simon Kessler of Simon Says Cycling, coach Simon has coached for 25+ years and has enjoyed an incredible track record as a coach which includes state and national champions on multiple continents in the road, track and mountain biking. Some of Simon’s clients have won world championship medals and gone on to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France. With this plan, you receive 30+ years of top-level experience in a super effective training plan that will lead to fast improvements.

Training for another race or personal improvement goal? Checkout our other training plans for racing (road, time trial, criterium), centuries, gran fondos, base training, power gains, and more. Visit: simonsayscycling.com

Plan Features

This training plan starts on a Monday

The plan is reusable an unlimited amount of times

Mental preparation audio included

This plan works with power only (no heart rate zones)

Designed with the latest Workout Builder - offering you more precise training with your personalized power intensities automatically displayed for each session

Your day's training session appears automatically each day on Garmin, Wahoo, Zwift, TrainerRoad, and more.

Weekend group ride option

Additional instruction and coaching via our client-only FB group