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Of course, the amount of training you "need" depends on your ambition, but if you regularly have an hour (or 90 minutes) to ride during the week and one or two longer rides on the weekend, I think you should be able to make progress. Something like 2 rides/weekend and 3 rides/weekday, with one of those weekday rides being hill repeats should be pretty effective, I would think.
Don't ride hard every time you go out. Alternate easy and challenging days.