Whoo hoo! One of my climbing goals for this summer was to get to the top of Knox Mountain without stopping. It's 3.5 km (2.2 miles), with 250 m climbing (800') at an average of 7% grade although some parts of closer to 10% and some are less. There is a really hard part at about the 1st km mark and I always have to stop and rest at the lookout. Yesterday I managed all the way up without stopping although I admit I did roll slowly through the flat lookout area before starting the next section. I really did not expect to be able to do until mid-summer. I guess now I will time myself going up and see if I can increase my speed as my next goal. I am going to try to find time to do the climb once a week if I can.

My other happy acheivement was going up all the way up clipped in. I had a fall going uphill early on when I went clipless and have been deathly afraid of climbing at slow speeds. I forced myself to stay in this time round and survived. I think that mental challenge was harder than the climbing itself.