I skipped the scheduled ride Sat with hubby--http://stooges.rogerkramercycling.org/ because the radar looked bad. He braved it and got lucky--all the weather moved to the south.

SO I drug him out Sunday morning for my first hilly route of the season. I intended to take it easy and "make it a positive experience." Secondly, I'm hoping to graduate to a new bike this year and the real challenge was: could I ride the bigger hills without using my granny gear at the beginning of the season? (have a triple and hoping to switch to compact double).

There are three "bigger" hills--the first I made in my big chain ring (woo hoo), the second, I got cocky and tried to do it in the big chain ring and had to suddenly shift to the middle (almost a crash) but the THIRD--I got up in my big chain ring (granted there is a large downhill to give me momentum, but I've not made it up this one before). As I was yelling "woo hoo", my husband reminded me I could go down one more in the back and still be in my middle chain ring. I KNOW

There is a Denny's at the top of the hill and it was Mother's Day with a line out the door. They were curious what all the hollering was about and I had an audience and a big smile on my face!

I caught my husband looking at the WSD Trek and Specialized websites later that day