sounds like pretty good
sounds like pretty good advice DaSy. Jon – you sound like you’ve got a decent power to weight ratio (quick on the climbs) but your peak power isn’t high, which is what you need on the flat as weight’s less of an issue. It’d be worth doing a RAMP test or similar to see what the maximum power you can sustain is, and then do some work to try and get your max power up. High intensity work is good for this, like DaSy says. High resistance work is good too: do some hill reps but instead of spinning a high cadence or standing up, sit down and push a bigger gear than normal. If you can get your peak sustainable power up you’ll be quicker up the hills too, assuming you don’t put on too much weight from all that extra muscle 🙂