Originally Posted by
guachinango
Gracias Nene,
I live in Florida so the winter is our time to train
. My only issue is going to be finding some suitable hills to climb. Fort Lauderdale's highest point is a landfill so I will have to use the
wind for resistance. Thank you for your help.
this may sound like a problem, but it could be circumvented by improving your Functional Threshold Power (FTP, defined as power you can maintain for one hour). As long as the hills you encounter in your race aren't the short, punchy ones (aka sprinter's hills), being able to maintain power for an elongated period of time is more important. And a FTP workout is a FTP workout. For a list of what people here do, check out the road racing forum: there's a sticky at the top.