What's a hilly ride?

[OakLeaf]

They look harmless, then sneak up on you.

while I love 10,000 feet of gain centuries I HATE short steep rollers. And while I used to say 5,000 foot centuries weren't hilly centuries I am now a convert.

Ah, there's the validation I was looking for when I posted this poll. It's just hard on your legs to go from massive application of force on a climb, to spinning like crazy on a downhill, switch every 90 seconds, repeat, repeat, repeat.

Really I had a bit of a revelation myself today. All we have in my immediate area are the short steep 'uns. Today a group of us drove a short distance for a budget tour in the next county over. There were a couple of pretty good hills, but there was also one that was long but not steep. Now that I look over my data, we gained 374 feet in 2.3 miles (that's in 114 m in 3.7 km ). The max grade on that hill was only 11%, and most of it obviously was much shallower. We all agreed that we could do that all day long. Interesting.