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00:00 The hill climb is a really weird event.
00:04 There's something demented about it.
00:07 You're making people do this deeply unpleasant thing.
00:11 Ride up a hill until you feel like you're coughing up blood.
00:16 Hill climbing is seen as uniquely British and is a cycling discipline in its own right.
00:25 It's got to be the purest sense of cycling.
00:27 It's basically, it's just you against the hill.
00:31 This is 35-year-old Andrew Feather, one of the best amateur hill climbers in the world.
00:41 I've always purely seen it as a hobby, a hobby that I'm able to hopefully do quite well at.
00:47 He's probably an archetypal hill climber, just has this savage capacity to take on the hill.
00:55 It's so steep. The harder the better, in my mind.
00:59 In this film, we follow him as he trains and races in the British hill climbing season.
01:05 Next climb on the circuit is one of the most iconic climbs in the UK.
01:09 Relentlessly steep.
01:12 Without doubt, the key to success is down to fitness.
01:15 Keep going, keep going.
01:16 The one minute power is in excess of 11 watts per kilo, which is the gold standard for world tour cyclists.
01:23 His ultimate goal? To win the National Hill Climbing Championship.
01:27 To win the National Championships, it comes down to fractions of a second.
01:32 There's literally no margin for error.
01:34 When you're in that zone, it's almost like a trance-like state.
01:39 It's you controlling the pain and not the pain controlling you.
01:43 There's nothing but getting to the finish line.
01:46 Up, up, up, up, up!
01:47 Up, up, up, up, up!
01:49 Go, go, go!
01:51 [Climbing]
01:53 [Climbing]
01:55 (dramatic music)
01:57 [BLANK_AUDIO]