Maybe all those hours on the bike are relevant training for places like beckworth?
Going up to 20 I recalled Glenn Meyer's words as we were grinding up a 2200-metre pass in a very dodgy bus in Kazakhstan a couple of years back - "this is where Lance makes his move". Unfortunately I'm not Lance.
Yeah that bus was going so slow I reckon anyone could have jumped out, given it 'the look', and ran away from it.
I love 'the look', i gave it to jymbo on sun, but then just stuffed up the next control.