How Was Your Commute Today?

[Melalvai]

That hill is my KILLER when I come home. It's a VERY long incline that starts at the intersection there and goes up and up and the last part of it HURTS if you don't use your core. I'm getting better, but I still need to stop for my lungs to recover somewhere along there.

I know which hill you are talking about! There's no shame in a low gear. The hill on Old 63 (south of Stadium) is actually steeper, but not as long. My old commute involved Old 63 more often, so the Old Rt K hill was sort of a test for me, I could tell that I was getting stronger as that hill became less challenging, whereas my usual Old 63 hill was a daily thing so the change was too gradual to notice.

Today the sun is shining, it was slightly chilly in the morning and very beautiful when I went home for lunch, and for the first time this week I haven't had a crisis today. Yet. Well, I did forget my keys when I went home for lunch but that is merely an inconvenience, not a crisis.