He drinks (approximately, it can vary) nine pints a week and had no training done for it. Average man cycles Monte Zoncolan; wearing trainers....

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Video: Average man cycles up Monte Zoncolan

Chris Froome began his ultimately victorious assault on the Giro with victory on Monte Zoncolan.

He flew up it on a tiny gear, though the climb is genuinely feared by even the top professional cyclists.

So what happens when an average guy decides to have a go at the climb. Eurosport employee Tom Bennett decided to have a crack.

The short video below documents how he got on. He's not a cyclist, had no training done and didn't even have proper cycling shoes and pedals.

The mountain is not for the feint-hearted, with 1,200 of climbing and slopes maxing out at 23 per cent. It’s 11km and averages 11.9 per cent.

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"Conquering Zoncolan takes more than a medium level of fitness," Tom Bennett said.

"With a BMI of 23 and an exercise capacity that puts me in the top half of UK males in my age group, I offer as close to an average of the population as Eurosport can produce.

"But average is not enough for a climb like this. And Zoncolan breaks me with six kilometres remaining.

"I have already taken longer than Chris Froome and the summit is still only a speck in the distance. And – as I catch a lift up the climb – my respect for the pros only strengthens.

"Even making it to the top of a mountain like this would be a feather in any cyclist’s cap. Racing to the top in 40 minutes is almost unfathomable."