WHAT DOES ANDREW FEATHER SAY ABOUT PERIODISATION?

THE SHORT ANSWER

Andrew Feather, four-time uk national hill-climb champion; british hill-climb specialist; third at the 2025 national championship, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Feather lands on periodisation. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.

WHO IS ANDREW FEATHER?

Andrew Feather is a four-time UK National Hill-Climb Champion who won his first national title in 2018 and his fourth in 2023. At the 2025 Pogi Challenge he was the only challenger reported to reach the finish before Tadej Pogačar, after receiving roughly a six-minute head start; Pogačar's elapsed time was about three and a half minutes faster. Feather's Roadman interview is useful first-person evidence on pacing, race weight, equipment and the training of a successful amateur specialist, but its power and training figures are self-reported rather than independently tested here.

FEATHER ON PERIODISATION

Feather’s key positions on periodisation.

• →Feather reports averaging 397W for 44 minutes at roughly 63kg during the 2025 Pogi Challenge; Roadman has not independently verified the power file.
• →The Pogi Challenge used a pursuit format: challengers started first and Pogačar began roughly six minutes later.
• →Feather crossed before Pogačar, but contemporary reporting put Pogačar's elapsed climb time about three and a half minutes faster.
• →Feather says he rode to his own power rather than reacting to the expected catch, a practical pacing lesson rather than proof that he was faster on net time.
• →Official and contemporary records show four national titles by 2023 and third place at the 2025 UK National Hill-Climb Championship.

IN FEATHER’S OWN WORDS

Verbatim from Andrew Feather’s appearances on the podcast.

HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST

Episodes where Andrew Feather covers periodisation and related ground.

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