The Cyclopreneur Coach

Still getting dropped on climbs?

Most riders never put a number on what they’re carrying up every climb.

But when you’re hauling an extra 10-15kg, that weight is working against you on every pedal stroke the moment the road tips up. Before the hill has even got hard, your legs are already doing a job they shouldn’t have to.

It’s why riders who are genuinely fit still get spat out the back on climbs. The engine isn’t the problem. It’s what the engine is being asked to carry.

And it doesn’t stop when you get off the bike.

That same extra weight is the reason you’re crashing at 3pm when you never used to. Why you wake up after a full night’s sleep still feeling like you need another one. Why the knees and lower back that were fine a few years ago now have something to say about it every single day.

This isn’t just about cycling faster. It’s about how you feel across the whole week, not just the hours you’re in the saddle.

Drop it the right way, without crash dieting, without losing the power and fitness you’ve spent years building, and the benefits go well beyond the next climb.

More energy, better recovery and rides that finally start feeling the way they should.

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You’ve added more rides. More hours. More miles…

But on Saturday or Sunday morning, the same guys are still riding away from you the second it goes uphill.

It doesn’t make sense. The miles are going in but the climbs keep telling the same story.

Here’s why…

Climbing isn’t a fitness test. It’s a maths problem. Power divided by weight and if you’ve been training hard but carrying 10, 12, 15 kilos more than you need to, you’ve only been working on half the equation.

More volume adds fitness. It doesn’t subtract weight. Not on its own. Not when every hard session quietly earns a bigger appetite and the body claws back what it just burned.

So you ride more. Stay the same weight and the climbs stay just as brutal.

The riders who stop getting dropped aren’t always the ones who trained the hardest. They’re the ones who fixed the other side of the equation, who stopped trying to out-ride a weight problem and actually addressed it.

Drop the excess properly, with the right structure around training and nutrition, and the climbing that’s frustrated you for years starts to change.

Not because you found more fitness. Because you stopped carrying weight that was cancelling it out.

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bikelife

Can hold a group on the flat but dropped off the back when the road goes up hill?

The biggest myth for cyclists over 50 is that the body stops responding.

It doesn’t.

What stops working is the approach.

I speak to riders in their 50s and 60s every week who have convinced themselves that where they are now is just what getting older looks like.

The weight that won’t shift. The fitness that peaks and drops. The rides that feel harder than they should.

They’ve accepted it. Because everyone around them has accepted it too.

But here’s what I actually see when the right structure and system is put in place.

Cyclists in their 50s and 60s building more power on the bike than they had in their 40s. Losing 10, 12, 15 kilos without crash dieting or giving up the things they enjoy.

Getting dropped on climbs for years and suddenly being the ones riding away from the group. Not because they found some secret. Not because they suddenly had more time.

Because they stopped training randomly and started training with a purpose. They stopped guessing with nutrition and started fuelling specifically around their training.

They stopped waiting for the right moment and just started. The body at 50+ responds faster than most people think.

What it doesn’t respond to is the same approach that hasn’t worked for the last five years.

If you’ve been telling yourself you’ll get serious about this when things calm down, that moment isn’t coming.

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Cycling to eat more?

Cycling but not losing weight?

Big ride Saturday or Sunday morning. 3, 4 or 5+ hours in the saddle. Suffered on the climbs, put the work in, earned it.

But then spent the rest of the day eating everything that wasn’t nailed down.

Bread, crisps, snacks. Whatever’s in the fridge. A bigger dinner than you’d normally have. Maybe a few drinks as well.

By Sunday evening you’ve given back triple the amount of calories the ride took out of you. Maybe more.

This isn’t a willpower problem. It’s a fuelling problem.

What you eat before and during that ride dictates what your body demands afterwards. Go out under-fuelled, run yourself into the ground, and your hunger hormones spend the rest of the weekend making you pay for it.

The riders who crack this don’t have more discipline off the bike. They just fuel better on it.

Get the nutrition right around the ride itself, and the out-of-control hunger that’s been following every long ride starts to disappear.

The weight that hasn’t shifted despite months of weekend rides? That’s where it starts moving.

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Always hungry after hard rides?