Well said, Darcy.
Only two things you didn't mention -
(1) Gearing. The same person with the same legs might be able to climb a hill with their 30x27 that they wouldn't be able to with the 42x21 low gear on the race bike they used to ride 25 years ago. Not anyone I know of course.(Last week I spent a couple of hours shooting the sh*t with someone I used to ride with back in the day. I felt sooooooo much better when he broached the topic of the hills he couldn't climb with the gears we both used to run....
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(2) You can pull off on the descents, too. Unclip, let your rims cool off and your adrenaline settle down, go back out.
It's all good.
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