Favorite Hill Climbing Quote

[Nanci]

"The race continued as I hammered up the trail, passing rocks and trees as if
they were standing still."

Red Fisher, Wasatch '86

[maillotpois]

That is great!!

[tulip]

"And I would rather be anywhere else than here today..."

-Elvis Costello

[SadieKate]

Embrace your inner tortoise.

-Veronica

[bikerchick68]

Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever. Lance Armstrong

(this is what drags me up all the hills... my personal chant... )

[Nanci]

I live by that Lance quote, (which some credit to The Marines) and also "It never always gets worse." Without those two things, I'd be DNF'ing all the time!!

Nanci

[Nanci]

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to
make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The
body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But
the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the
mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired...You've
always got to make the mind take over and keep going.
George S. Patton, U.S. Army General and 1912 Olympian

[Nanci]

"Executive summary: It was fun. It was beautiful. It was challenging, no,
strike that, it was hard. It went reasonably well for about 65 miles. Then it
got ugly. Then it got very ugly. Then it got stupefying, Bataan death march,
lurching, staggering, crying-for-yo'-mama-in-the-middle-of-the-night ugly. That
went on for several more hours and then I finished . . . ." John
Medinger, Wasatch 100, (2000).

[Veronica]

How weird to see my self being quoted.

I was saying Danilo Di Luca over and over in my head on DMD.

V.

[betagirl]

"One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.” - Greg Lemond

[RoadRaven]

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

:- Walter Bagehot

(Also, my signature below... because i will try again tomorrow)

[Starfish]

I laugh at hills.

(I say this to myself when I see hills coming, when I am struggling on one, or when I'm signed up for a ride that sounds too hard & hilly. I often say it out loud, and I sound so ridiculous to myself that I actually do laugh, and then the next thing I know, I have a smile on my face, and I laugh more because I'm actually laughing on a hill climb. I imagine folks around town think I'm nuts, because sometimes when I forget I'm only talking to myself, my lips move, too.)

[Nanci]

Recruit the glutes!