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[Kitsune06]

We pedaled to breakfast yesterday in the sunshine... I have to go in to school for positioning practice before the midterm, and I'm debating whether or not I want to ride in. I have the route planned but I'm not 100% sure I'm ready for some of those hills.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

If it helps any, I will say that I'm never 100% sure I'm ready for hills.
Probably best to just go for it.

Pax- that sounds like a lovely day!!

[Pax]

I can't really wrap my head around this whole "hill" thing you all speak of, are they like highway overpasses???

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

lol! Yes, that's right....

[Kitsune06]

More midterms, today and tomorrow. This one is on image production, tomorrow's is on positioning. I did pretty well on last weeks' on radiation protection/damage. Tell you what, nothing gives you creepy feelings like watching hundreds of thousands of Soviets work and give their lives to entomb Chernobyl , and nothing puts the last ten years into perspective like realizing the two atomic bombs we dropped on Japan killed almost 250,000 civilians either immediately or from later stochastic effects.
The world can be a really ugly place, can't it?
I don't mean to be a downer, but sometimes...

[Catrin]

If it helps any, I will say that I'm never 100% sure I'm ready for hills.
Probably best to just go for it.

Pax- that sounds like a lovely day!!

Whewwwww, glad to hear that I am the only one who looks at hills this way

[Crankin]

Catrin, you should see the hills that Lisa lives around. I live in a fairly hilly area, but, her hills almost killed me .

[Catrin]

Catrin, you should see the hills that Lisa lives around. I live in a fairly hilly area, but, her hills almost killed me .

Oh my I doubt that she would even notice that we HAVE hills around here

[Crankin]

I just kid her about this. The ride to her town from Great Barrington, MA was hilly, but fine. It was the 85 degree unshaded 7 mile climb after eating lunch at Ralphs (the place she talks about all of the time) to get back, that had me a little "upset." And it was a 50 mile ride.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Well, it probably safe to say it's way hillier around here than Indiana!

Robin, that 7 mile climb up 203 is indeed pretty tough if it's 85F and sunny.

[marni]

I can't really wrap my head around this whole "hill" thing you all speak of, are they like highway overpasses???

Around here highway overpasses are my hills, I have several shorter routes that I ride in circles so I can get in overpass repeats.

I can remember that for about 1/3 of the south west cross country on the underground railroad ride, we always had to ride up hill to get the nights' lodging and then start out going uphill first thing in the morning. I used to sing "here comes the burn, la la la la" to J. Lennon "here comes the sun" for the first four or five miles of each days ride.

On the other hand, on the Southern Tier cross country by the time we had ridden through california, arizona, new mexico we were hill climbing animals by the time we hit the texas hill country. so much so that the rest of the ride through flatlands, although beautiful and rewarding was almost boring.

For me its more of a mental attitude. I am willing to admit that I have never met a hill I couldn't walked, but I am usually determined enough to get up it somehow on the bike, even if I am going so slowly at the top that I fail to unclip and fall over sideways like the old man on the trike in Laugh In.

[redrhodie]

I used to sing "here comes the burn, la la la la" to J. Lennon "here comes the sun" for the first four or five miles of each days ride.

George.