Athletes, what's harder riding up that hill or running up that hill?

[TrekTheKaty]

If there are tricks to the getting out rather than falling or going backwards, I'd love to hear them. My first year clipped in, I did a "controlled fall" on a hill. Got to the edge, found some soft leaves, TIMBER. Figured it was the lesser of all evils.

Yep, I'm always eyeing the shoulder. Nice to know where I'm going to land

[pfunk12]

For me, running is harder. Although I was a pretty successful runner(sponsored by a shoe company and successful at distances from 5k to the marathon), I absolutely hated hills. I never stopped to walk up a hill but that's not to say that I didn't slow down to a crawl! But on the bike, I love climbing. For some reason, it just seems so much easier to me. When running up a steep incline or long steady climb, I would think, "Gosh...this really sucks." But on the bike, I am sometimes sad when the hill is over.

[emily_in_nc]

Running is much harder for me...maybe because it takes longer than riding up the same hill, and I get hotter. I have very low gears on my road bike, so there would be very few hills I couldn't ride up, albeit very slowly. There are definitely hills I couldn't run due to their length or grade.

[colby]

This is a tough one. There is a point early in the season when I have been running outside but riding indoors that running up the hills actually feels easier. But... after I build outdoor and hill endurance on the bike, they start to even out, and then I think riding up hills might actually be easier than running up them.

With either one, it seems the only way to get better is to just do more of it... I get sick of running a lot sooner than riding, so maybe that's why riding comes out easier in the end