'Seven times three minutes at 500 watts': How Josh Tarling got into world-beating shape

The newly crowned junior TT world champion talks us through an eye-popping week of preparation

Josh Tarling in action at the road world champs
(Image credit: Alamy)

Want to know how the best riders in the world train? For each article in this long-running MY WEEK IN TRAINING series from Cycling Weekly's print edition, we sit down with a pro rider who talks us through a recent week of training in granular detail. This time it's the turn of junior TT world champion Josh Tarling...

In early August it was announced that 18-year-old Josh Tarling had signed a three-year contract with Ineos-Grenadiers. Little over a month later, the teenager confirmed his prodigious talent by winning the junior TT world title in Wollongong, Australia – beating home favourite Hamish McKenzie by 19 seconds. His move to Ineos means Tarling will jump from junior racing straight to WorldTour, skipping the U23 rung of the ladder. Already a national and European champion on the track, he is quite literally going places, fast. 

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