You're doing great!!! Hills are hard work. Doing a mile with hills is alot harder than riding a flat route. And to start riding again, knowing you are gonna start on hills, gives you some bragging rights.

Just alittle over a week ago, I was complaining about how long it was taking for me to get better. And then something happened, I don't know what. But it clicked and it's gotten easier and I'm going further than I dared hope when I wrote that post. I still haven't made my first goal but, at least, now I believe I will and I didn't believe it 10 days ago. Seemed impossible to me. So, I think getting better is small gains and then a jump. Small gains and then a jump. It took me about a month to get my first real jump. I hope yours comes sooner. But if it doesn't, you're in good company.

So, keep going. Cause I think you'll be very proud of yourself a week from now. And even more proud two weeks from now.

When I wrote my post, several people said - spin, spin, spin when you ride. Don't ride with alot of resistance in your pedals and that helped me a ton. Now, I down shift as soon as I feel my legs getting tight from an incline or hill. I spin and I work alot less and I go further and faster. Makes no sense but it's true.

Also, it helped to eat alittle right before I went. I didn't add in extra food to my daily eating but I moved some food from dinner up to before I ride snack time. And that helped.

Glad you are here.