So I'm not a climber

[Zippinalong]

I hate hills with a passion. I just don't have the leg strength to get up those things. This off season I want to work really hard at building up my leg strength. But then my partner I swear was born for riding. She has fantastic strength in her legs and can go up the hardest hills without stopping. She even bests some of the more seasoned riders up hills and riding in general. She doesn't even do a lot of training which is annoying as hell.

But I think the other thing too is the mental aspect of it. Like any sport those who have a very strong drive will tend to do better. My partners mental will is amazing. She showed me a hill she went up one time and I just started at awe at the hill and the fact she made it up there. It was seriously a monster hill. Steep and long. I could see people with bikes walking up the hill. I said there's no way I would have gone up that hill. So I turned and asked her why she went up it. She looked at me and without skipping a beat said because it was there. To her everything is a challenge, meant to be conquered.

But as some of you have said, some have the natural ability and some like me don't and have to train all the time to get better.