Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
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its all about the hills - any ride you do - even a sunday club ride will always get a little fizzy on the hills - it tests you but more than that it will show your limits in an honest no place to hide sort of way - cycling is almost all about climbing well when you have to... for me anyway...
Being able to ride uphill quickly is generally considered to be A Good Thing, isn't it? Strava or no Strava?
I've yet to meet a cyclist who said "I wish I was slower on the hills"
Didn't he just mean that he's not that bothered about going up hills fast, he's happy enough as he is. He might be an ageing cycle tourist or a Buddhist monk. He didn't say he wished he was actually slower on hills. Poor bloke's being ganged up on and bullied.
Why would wanting to ride up a hill quickly make you a Strava Bore?
"Everyone wants to be able to ride uphill fast"
Really?
Not all of us are Strava Bores you know?
Yeah, I pine for the good old days before they invented Strava, and before they invented hills. (^_-)
Deja vu...I think I saw this video some weeks before
I think I'm heavier now, and my climbing has gotten worse. Bummer.
Neo, you got any of those red pills...