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 threshold training. 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 THRESHOLD TRAINING
Feather’s key positions on threshold training.
- Feather crossed before Pogačar, but contemporary reporting put Pogačar's elapsed climb time about three and a half minutes faster.
- 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.
“I did 397 W.”
“I was consistently looking down at my power meter and I was seeing around 420, 430, so obviously with those downhill bits I would have lost a bit of average power.”
“The handicap at the start, I mean, I've heard various reports, anything between 6 and 7 minutes, and that kind of stacks up because when I crossed the line, I was waiting for about 3 minutes and then he crossed the line. So the net time between me and him was 3 minutes 29, so 3 and 1/2 minutes basically, that he was quicker than me.”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Andrew Feather covers threshold training and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Andrew Feather say about threshold training?
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 threshold training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Feather's main point on threshold training?
Feather crossed before Pogačar, but contemporary reporting put Pogačar's elapsed climb time about three and a half minutes faster.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Andrew Feather on threshold training?
Feather discusses threshold training in this episode: "Andrew Feather: How He Held Off Pogačar at Pogi Challenge".
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