Tell me about a couple things here.

So some people might have seen Robbie was very good at doing this and sprinters doing it it's

called sandbagging or drifting I never sandbagging Mitch it's the drift it's the

drift it's the drift yes the drift is Robbie explain it all right so that the

tactic well for me and for guys like me who were not great climbers, not very good climbers, some days terrible climbers,

to save your legs and to keep yourself in the peloton climb after climb, and I'm not talking not climbs to 20K, but sort of these one to two kilometer hills,

but they feel like climbs, trust me.

The trick was to save your legs as much as possible was to start the hill at the front of the peloton

and then just ride a moderate tempo, drift your way backwards, just drifting through,

riders passing you left and right. By the time you get to the top of that hill, ideally,

you're in the last 10 or five riders in the Peloton. So you may have gone up the hill compared

to the guy who started at the front and stayed at the front.

I will have ridden up a hill 45 seconds slower than someone else.

I may have spent longer climbing, but my heart rate and my power output were incredibly lower.

Hence I'd saved a heap of energy.

It felt almost like I hadn't ridden that hill.

And then you take the time, and here's the trick to making it work,

when you have a succession of hills,

getting yourself back to the front without wasting a lot of energy.

So it's not just about blasting up the side in the wind, making huge acceleration, get back to the front,

but just following wheels, riding through gaps, just keep like a salmon upstream,

just keep moving the path of least resistance, preferably in someone else's wheel,

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