Originally Posted by
spectastic
but yea, intervals seems to be the ticket for me, just need to figure out ways to keep them somewhat interesting.
From time to time I'll go out and do intervals on sections I want to take the KOMs. Sometimes this ends up being more of a fartlek session if they're spaced a bit, but sometimes I'll just do repeats on one hill and take a crack at the KOM the first or second time. Making it into a little race always helps me.