The Cyclopreneur Coach

Machine on the flats but get dropped on climbs?

Struggling on hills?

Avoiding climbs because you’re carrying an extra 20-35lbs?

You know the routes you suggest.

The ones that stay relatively flat. The rides that avoid the big climbs. The group chat where someone proposes a hilly route and you quietly hope someone else talks them out of it.

It’s got to that point.

Not avoiding cycling. Avoiding the parts of cycling that expose what you’ve been carrying. Because there’s only so many times you can watch the group disappear up a climb before the easier option becomes not putting yourself in that position at all.

And that’s the moment worth paying attention to.

Because avoiding climbs doesn’t make the weight go away. It just removes the most obvious reminder of it while the 20 to 35 pounds quietly continues doing everything else it’s been doing. The energy that drops out mid-week. The sleep that doesn’t recover you. The reflection that’s been slowly changing without you ever deciding to let it.

The cycling you fell in love with, the proper rides, the big climbs, the trips with routes that actually challenge you, has been getting smaller to fit around a problem that was always going to need addressing.

Riders in their 50s and 60s who sort this don’t just start climbing better.

They stop planning routes around what they’re trying to hide.

The climbs come back. The proper routes come back. The riding that used to excite you before the weight made it complicated comes back.

All of it.

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Struggling to lose weight and increase power?

Getting dropped on hills?

Weight been fluctuating for years?

Cutting calories on the bike to lose weight?

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Your autumn trip is weeks away.

The route is planned. The flights are booked. The group chat is buzzing with elevation profiles and daily distances that looked exciting when you agreed to them.

But you’re now heading into it carrying an extra 10 to 15 kilos and deep down you know it’s going to play out differently.

The group will set off together. Everyone’s fresh, the legs feel good, the excitement of being here makes the first few kilometres feel effortless. Then the road tilts up for the first time.

Thirty seconds in you’re already off the back.

Not halfway up. Not when the climb gets steep. Within the first thirty seconds, before it’s even got properly hard, the 10 to 15 kilos your legs are carrying has already made the decision for you.

And that’s just day one.

Because day two carries the fatigue of day one with it. Day three carries both. By the time the trip reaches its hardest day your legs aren’t just carrying the climbing, they’re carrying everything that 10 to 15 kilos has extracted from them since the moment you arrived.

This is what extra weight does on a multi-day trip that no amount of pre-trip fitness work fully compensates for. It compounds. Quietly and relentlessly across every climb, every day, every hour in the saddle, until the trip you’ve been looking forward to all year becomes something you’re just trying to get through.

There may not be enough time to fix it before this one.

But there’s every reason to make sure the next trip tells a completely different story from the first thirty seconds of day one.

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On the flat you’re dangerous.

Holding the front. Driving the pace. The kind of rider that makes others dig deep just to sit on your wheel.

Then a climb appears and within ninety seconds you’re invisible.

The same riders you were putting in the gutter on the flat are now gone. Not struggling to hold you. Gone. Riding away at a pace that makes no sense given what just happened on the road before it.

What’s happening?

Flat riding rewards power and you’ve got it. But climbing doesn’t care about raw power, it cares about what that power is being asked to move against gravity. And gravity is brutally, mathematically honest about every single kilo your legs are carrying.

The rider who just rode away from you isn’t producing dramatically more power. They’re just dividing it by significantly less weight.

That’s it. That’s the whole gap.

And what makes it so frustrating for riders in their 50s and 60s who’ve been trying to fix this through training alone.

No interval session closes a power-to-weight gap that weight is keeping open. You can get fitter, stronger, faster on the flat and still lose the same riders on the same climbs, because the variable that’s actually deciding the outcome hasn’t been touched.

The engine isn’t the problem. It never was.

Remove the weight to a health sustainable place, without losing the power you’ve built, and the climbing that’s been letting you down finally matches the engine that’s been turning heads on the flat.

Same rider. Same power. Half the problem.

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