You do not have to go looking for hills in this city. The question is how to make them work for you — three sessions, the climbs to use, and how to race them.

The word means two different things here, and both are worth knowing. Where the synthetic tracks are, which trails hold up in winter, and what each surface does to your pace.

Wellington's default session venue, and the one thing about the loop nearly everybody gets wrong. Measured with a calibrated wheel it is about 965 metres, and the GPS there will not tell you otherwise.

The routes I actually send people to, and what each one is good for.

A good session needs ground you can trust. Very little in this city is neutral.