Here’s a video of the Jackson Bridge climb taken from the upcoming 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs DVD which is based on Simon Warren’s book of the same name. The national hill climb championships will take place on the same course, near Holmfirth in Yorkshire, on Sunday October 25.
The video is one of 100 from an upcoming turbo training DVD based on ‘100 Greatest Cycling Climbs: A Road Cyclist’s Guide to Britain’s Hills’ which will be released next month.
Jackson Bridge is roughly a mile long at an average gradient of 11%. Writing on his website, 2013 national hill climb champion, Tejvan Pettinger describes it as ‘a classic British hill climb course’.
He says: “The climb doesn’t allow a steady rhythm, but has four difficult sections of 15% plus, interspersed with some more gradual gradients in between.”
Current national hill climb champion, Dan Evans, completed the course in 4m11s on Saturday to win a Huddersfield Star Wheelers event and therefore seems to have a good chance of retaining his title.
5 thoughts on “Video: Jackson Bridge from 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs turbo training DVD”
That ^^ looks just horrid.
That ^^ looks just horrid.
I suppose now I’ve seen it, I’ll have to add it to the list of to-dos.. I think cyclists must hate themselves.
#sighs
Haha, peaking at 800 watts,
Haha, peaking at 800 watts, certainly a hill for 16 stone power house 😀
Did this on the Tandem last
Did this on the Tandem last year with my wife in the HSW hill climb competition. It wasn’t the best of choice of equipment.
I made a similar video during
I made a similar video during last week’s Huddersfield Star Wheelers’ climb. No power reading, but you could probably just halve (or more) the values from the video above…
The hardest thing I found was pacing, as the gradient ramps up at various points, before dropping down to a gentle 10%
Because of all the bends you never really get a clear view of what’s ahead.
It was my first hill climb and, as the video shows, I went out far too quickly. There was also a lot of adrenaline pumping as before I’d even pushed down on the pedals my heart rate was at 120!
It was amazing to see how fast the top guys were going up the climb – they really are a different class completely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyBpBpJ_8Wc
wodentop wrote:
Painful to watch but well done. As you’ve found out, course knowledge is really useful. Even if you hadn’t gone out so hard the HR would have shot up to 170 bpm pretty much straight away.