Training for Peaks Challenge: How to Win, break 8-hours, or just finish

About this episode

The episode discusses training strategies for the Peaks Challenge, focusing on achieving sub-8 hour finishes and the dynamics of racing.

The crew are back with a deep dive into training, and racing for Peak Challenge. Marko maps out a very real plan to go very fast for a very long time, and Tills slowly realises just how cooked a sub-8 hour Peaks can be. There’s serious talk on climbs, watts, group dynamics and strategy. if you’re training for Peaks, thinking about Peaks, or just want to feel better about your own climbing, this one hits close to home

Topics covered

• training
• racing
• climbing
• strategy
• group dynamics

Keywords

• Peaks Challenge
• training
• climbing
• strategy
• group dynamics
• racing

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