The Preparation | Everesting Challenge | Cycling Weekly

[@mikejames172]

I've done an Everest - your ex pro mate is right you will get more tired than you have ever been before - which will make your mind doubt you can do it at some point - top tip is climb each ascent with the minimum wattage you can to save your energy and legs - make sure you can do 6000 ascent metres in one session before you attempt it ! Choose an 11-32 - it will be of value. Choose a hill with constant gradient, no steep ramps after 10 hours of climbing they will kill you ! Eat food every 20 minutes - just a nibble ! Good Luck !

[@alejandrobarraganlopez3231]

BMC Nutter This is an excellent idea to do it in progressive sessionns

[@koshu4]

Confirmed. I spent three days in bed afterwards.

[@kylecouture1917]

I weigh 140 pounds. I rock a 50/34 with an 11/25 cassette. My hill of choice is a constant 6.5% think ill be okay?

[@carlosflanders518]

I've Everested. Training was lots of 4 min Hill reps during the week plus long rides on the weekends. Moat important is to never go near your threshold. I rarely exceeded 140 bpm peak/125 bpm averagewhere I'd TT at 165bpm. Choice of hill is very important. Ideal height would be about 800 ft. Any more and your legs get cold on the descent and it's horrible trying to warm them back up. Shorter than that and you have a lot of turnarounds to deal with which can be annoying and dangerous. Don't worry too much about nutrition. Eat plenty the day before and have a double size breakfast. You have plenty of time to eat and drink while climbing. The amount of KJs burned isn't outrageous and is more than manageable. Mistakes I made were not changing my chamois (one change would have been great, or at least renewing the creme) and not having a compact. My smallest gear was a 38*30 which was just about ok. A 36T on the front or 32T on the back would have been great. I never really fatigued. Just went a steady pace well below my limit and only got slower when it got dark. Didn't have much support. My wife came to replenish supplies a couple of times - that was it. Biggest negative was sheer boredom - I sang to myself a lot. Biggest positive was discovering pickle juice. Bought a jar of pickles halfway through, drank the juice. Filled up the pickle jar with water and refilled my bottles with pickle water each hour. My main worry was my knee giving out - it held up, but I tweaked an ankle tendon and that took months and a change of saddle height to go away.

[@pinkalinkainka]

Can you recommend a training plan for Everesting?

[@carlosflanders518]

@@pinkalinkainka Lots and lots of riding, covering all the zones. The fitter you are the easier it will be. Priority is on endurance. After that, hill reps once or twice a week. Short and hard. I did a selection of 3 and 4 min hills as hard as I could go, Only 25 mins total of climbing but it really helps with building leg strength and improves VO2 Max. Endurance and avoiding muscular fatigue are the pillars of everesting.

[@carlosflanders518]

The key workout here is short and hard hill reps. As far as I understand you want to recruit and train all the muscle fibers. Even though you'll never be going at more than 60% or so of threshold during your Everesting, you will fatigue the muscle fibers so you will need to recruit more as the ride progresses. Going to be a problem if you haven't already trained the new recruits. Physiologists, please correct me if I'm wrong.

[@briangrissom9115]

Absolutely love the video. I’m in the same situation as you, multiple jobs, wife, two daughters, and hard pressed for time. This is getting me inspired! Good luck! You’ll do amazing.

[@alejandrobarraganlopez3231]

Here in México we have several options to gather an average altittude gain of 600-800 metters in 15 kms, so in 12 reps there is the chance to reach that goal

[@andrewroozen9151]

Psychology is a big part of everesting and sometimes it means that you choose a climb which might not necessarily be the most efficient physically. This analysis does not take this aspect into account but it is important. For example it can be more effective if you chose a hill that is very special to you and you love to ride, it means that you will be more determined to achieve and complete an everesting on it. This hill might have sections which are not optimal from a technical standpoint but that is outweighed by the psychological aspect. All of my everests have been on hills that I love and will usually include the whole hill even if there is a considerable shallow section at the bottom. There is not way I could miss out those shallow sections, it would deflate my determination, to me it would be an insult to the hill. It might seem crazy to people when they see you doing this but its so important, for me anyway. I reckon everesting is probably 50% physical fitness and 50% psychological fitness. :)

[@trailsandtrails]

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[@10MUSE01]

Cracking start to the series! Looking forward to the rest of it!

[@casefarley5744]

Great video. The Le Col Colnago jersey looks fantastic. And that C60 is the business.

[@markknight5480]

Really good video, enjoyed the quality of the content and the great on bike camera work. Looking forward to the next video.

[@SteveBrill]

Great video Matt. You'll smash it! Looking forward to further updates.

[@breathestrongcycling3672]

I got half way on my attempt before my knee crapped out. Biggest thing I underestimated was how much the descending takes it out of you. My fault for choosing a 30 k climb I guess

[@khollingsworth5422]

Ironic that this is coming out at the same time that Ollie is training for an Everest with GCN haha

[@mattbarbet9336]

Kent Hollingsworth the word is “coincidental” 😉

[@joshuafoster8976]

Reckon Ollie was picked do it for cycling weekly and thought "stuff it I've done the training, do it at gcn" this guy was the replacement for the feature?

[@RixterNow]

That was great. What are you using for the selfie while riding. The sound and image stability is really good

[@mattbarbet9336]

Rixter Simply an iPhone

[@isaidgooddaysir2585]

Oh I like this. This is better. This is a good post. Re-subbed.

[@PerBarholm]

think 11-27 might be to little, maybe go 11-29 or even of 30 if campa goes that high :)

[@deadpool8340]

Walrus for the win

[@danfuerthgillis4483]

So any of these bikes at 14 kg? That is my favourite weight to train on. My 8 kg bike is a joke to ride as it is too light even with alloy wheels. Train on heavy race on light for max cadence.

[@albr4]

do you think he likes colnago?

[@beeble2003]

Seems to be a bit of a Le Col fan, too.

[@simonbradley7031]

Geschke's English is fantastic 😛

[@grandad1982]

Kidds Hill ramps more than 10%. It averages 9/10% and ramps to 15/16%.

[@Lasermanprint]

Good Luck you'll need it, but so does everyone

[@Deuteross]

Great video!

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[@bacazterchovej2235]

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