We’re sprinting into part two in our series on race strategy and training; today is all about hilly road races. Prepare your mind and body for the vast range of elements in a stage race, including the crit, time trial, and road race.

In today’s episode, learn the exercise science behind peaking for your racing season — including how long it takes, why we do a fatigue block to start the peak and the science of what happens physiologically to produce the peak. Tapering your training is tricky so we’ll review some of the more common mistakes that you can run into.