It never occurred to me to sit going uphill. Mind you, the most gears I've had is 5 and a lot of the hills have been short & steep.
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05-24-2008, 03:14 PM #1
upside down and rusty
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05-24-2008, 07:18 PM #2
What's next? A half iron?
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I almost always sit unless they are VERY short and I'm not too tired.
It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Elliot
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05-26-2008, 05:09 AM #3
Lookin' for tailwinds
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If you stand, be sure that you still have one more gear "in the hole." If you need to sit again, you'll probably want an easier gear.
Here is something that really helps me: I don't "fight the hill." I mentally "work with the hill". So, I hit the hills as fast as I can so I have some momentum. I'll sit until my cadence slows to ~60, depending on how my legs feel that day. Usually that gets me over the hill - or close to it.To train a dog, you must be more interesting than dirt.
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06-02-2008, 07:24 PM #4
I am a work in progress..
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We have so many hills here in my area I usually have trouble getting the right gears from hill to hill (easy enough to get me up one side, but hard enough to get some speed at the bottom in preparation for the next hill .....no rolling hills around here. They're steep and one right after another). But then again, I'm quite the hill-slug....
Kristen!
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