Made that hill for the second week in a row (yay!) I was worried that last week might've been just an outlier. Added 4 miles to my normal ride, pushing it to 20.4 (with an added hill at the end) and did just fine.

I'm really proud that I'm getting slightly better on hills though I'm hardly graceful. I still curse my way through to the top, in the easiest gear, with a cadence in the 50s. I keep reading about keeping your cadence in the 80s on a hill -heck, I'm still working on keeping my cadence in the 80s on the flats/rolling hills, let alone the climbs!

Average speed still slow at under 10, but I guess if I'm making progress getting up hills I had to walk last year, something's getting better.

As my LBS tells me, "Deb, it's gonna take more than one season to get fast at this..." I'm so impatient!