Favorite Hill Climbing Quote

[salsabike]

Next pinecone ... next pinecone ... next pinecone ...

... as I stare at the pinecones littering the side of the road, I keep pedalling just to the next pinecone (about a foot away), then to the next, and the next, and finally I make the top of the hill in my granny gear and can cruise the 200 yards/meters to my house. Or not, because there's a car behind me that wants to drive faster than ten miles an hour.

But last week, I made it up the hill in my second to last granny gear! And without the pinecone chant. Progress! Yay me! The hill's pretty flat, but has a nasty sharp increase in slope at the end. Like a stinking ski jump.

--SJ

I LOVE the next pinecone chant! Makes perfect sense to me.

[pkq]

I have a real problem with someone beating me to the top.
-a pal

[pkq]

It's darn near downhill all the way from here.
-Ken C.

[Lenusik]

And I try to imagine waltz: one - two -three, one - two - three

[Geonz]

Somebody else uses a three-count! I do too, I think because of my swimming background and breathing on "both sides," and the six-beat kick rather deeply ingrained in me. (I like 3-4 better than 2-4 anyway. So many really good songs are 3-4...)

[CR400]

"Just a little bit farther"

"Only one more hill (or time)."

"This hurts so much, what do you mean I'm only going 5 or 8mph." So I dig in to go faster.

and my favorite "Thank God for the triple I bought" with a 26. Now If I could just have a 26/25 maybe things would be better