MAY UPDATE

Our challenge to improve your time on a local climb had lots of people looking for marginal gains, or focusing some of their turbo time on the effort needed for the climb they chose. Girona-based rider Victoria Wren selected the 2.1km Strava segment on Regencós. A few climbing workouts on Zwift saw her time drop from 11 minutes, 14 seconds to 9.50 in just 12 days.

Jacques van Wersch used his local climb up Mount Faber Park in Singapore and discovered a talent for climbing. He set a time of 4.49 min on the 1.52km climb (5.1 per cent) at the beginning of May and managed to twice beat that time, bringing his pb down to 4.28.

Those living in the flatter parts of the UK had to get a little more creative. Stephen Thompson found Hartest Hill in Suffolk and shaved 18 seconds off his time, while Mark Fairhead used the Devil’s Oven climb in Norfolk for the challenge: a 0.23-mile ‘climb’ that gains 33ft. Mark also completed 5,000 miles in May, aided by time trialling’s return.

Meanwhile, the second challenge of riding 150 miles in a week was completed with relative ease by many Cw5000ers.