Reply With QuoteGreat news about conquering the hill! What a great confidence booster!
One of my goals for this year is to ride up a VERY hated hill on John Bryan Park Road near Yellow Springs, Ohio. The last time I rode -- make that walked -- up that hill with my bike I was grumbling at DH all the way up.
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Thread: Today was a milestone for me!!!
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08-09-2007, 02:05 PM #31
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Oooh, I just did a devil of a hill this past weekend. I don't know how steep it was, but it reminded me of going up on a roller coaster ride.
I had just come down a steep hill and was pedaling like a mad woman to get up that blasted hill when......I accidentally geared up to the highest gear--front and rear. Dumb! Dumb! I almost came to a halt and had to jump off my bike to run up the hill. In the meantime, there are cars whizzing right by me on a road that has no shoulder. Geez! The things we do! 
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08-09-2007, 07:00 PM #32
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"I learned what every dreaming child needs to know - no horizon is so far that you cannot see above or beyond it." -- Beryl Markham, Aviation Pioneer
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08-09-2007, 07:17 PM #33
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That is fantastic! I know the feeling and once you've done it, you know you can do it again. Yay!!!
I swear at them as I climb them, I found it intimidates them a bit and makes them behave.
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08-09-2007, 10:42 PM #34
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LOL!! I soooo know that feeling! Some kind of evil headwind I somehow can't feel?
Originally Posted by indigoiis
Last edited by teawoman; 08-09-2007 at 10:47 PM.
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08-10-2007, 07:51 AM #35
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Oh and have you ever done this? I have stem end shifters. The other day at mile fifteen I was going up a ghost hill, and I looked at the right shifter and it was all the way up, meaning, I was on the easiest of gears. Originally Posted by teawoman
I forgot to look at the left though. I was on the biggest ring!
There I was slugging away, thinking, "That's it, I've lost it. I suck."
When I got to the top (and with ghost hills, where exactly IS the top? [insert twilight zone theme here]) I looked at the left shifter and was like, well DUH!!!
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08-11-2007, 01:52 PM #36
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Although it sucks as you go up a hill like this feeling like you are performing badly, I really love looking down and realising that I went up in the big chain ring!
You muscled your way up - congrats Indi!
Next time you know you can do a few higher gears in you small chain ring!
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow".
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08-11-2007, 08:15 PM #37
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That is so great. Way to Go!!!!!
I know the avoiding hills feeling. LOL Now you know you can do it and nothing will stop you. Congratulations again!!Donna
