No Slackers + Hillacious

[Velobambina]

RM---You have to get the Arizona Virtual Reality Spinerval. It's a tough one and you'll get to ride w/your pal, Troy. LOL. BTW, you are very lucky to live out there. Looks beautiful.

[Starfish]

RM---You have to get the Arizona Virtual Reality Spinerval. It's a tough one and you'll get to ride w/your pal, Troy. LOL. BTW, you are very lucky to live out there. Looks beautiful.

Slight hijack:

VeloB, I am new to Spinervals, and this is one of the few I have. I don't yet have any of the other climbing ones (just cadence technique, etc).

How does the AZ one (which I DO have), stack up to the other climbing ones for difficulty. I have done the AZ one, but as of yet don't have other climbing Spinervals to compare it to.

[Thorn]

On the hijack--I'll be interested in VeloB's opinion, too. I am also a Spinervals junkie and have Hillacious, Uphill Grind and the Tucson Training Rides.

Personally, Mt. Lemmon is the toughest. Unrelentless. Mean. Tough.

Then, Hillacious and Uphill Grind. I can't say one is harder than the other; they're different. Hillacious seems to feel like it is working me better because it is more like I ride--long upills, rollers and short steep sections. But, Uphill Grind really gets the heart rate up, but in a different manner. It feels more like learning to sprint up a hill than just to get to the top. Both are tough, but differently so. I alternate them, tossing in Mt. Lemmon when I'm having a good day.

Gates Pass is the easiest. I don't consider that a hill workout so much as a tougher aero with some hills thrown in to raise the heart rate for a while. But that could just be the way I ride that one--aero the flats, work the hills.

[Starfish]

Personally, Mt. Lemmon is the toughest. Unrelentless. Mean. Tough.

This is encouraging to me. Maybe I'll save the $$ for awhile and keep doing Mt. Lemmon.