Also, I've been riding my bike to work. It's almost completely flat, with nothing that could even be called a hill. That hill would KILL me. I tried to take a different way home one time - it goes up a pretty big hill and back down - and I turned around about halfway up the hill because I couldn't make it. But that's my goal - to be able to ride all the way up that dumb hill.
You gotta start somewhere. When I first got serious about riding...about two decades ago...I went out and plotted out routes that were nothing but hills...and rode them constantly. Until I could finish every hill on the route without walking.
Granted, my training methods were sketchy, but I think it was more the mental part of it.
That'd be one way to get better. I mostly feel stupid when I have to stop and walk, but it would probably make me better a lot faster than my pansy-method.
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Also, I've been riding my bike to work. It's almost completely flat, with nothing that could even be called a hill. That hill would KILL me. I tried to take a different way home one time - it goes up a pretty big hill and back down - and I turned around about halfway up the hill because I couldn't make it. But that's my goal - to be able to ride all the way up that dumb hill.
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Granted, my training methods were sketchy, but I think it was more the mental part of it.
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