Originally Posted by
foamy
I agree with this^^.
Just make sure you get your saddle and cockpit absolutely right—in every way. You kind 'a get conditioned as you go along. I thought the Appalachians were gonna kill me (went from east to west). After them, everything was just fine.
And part of that is because they are just harder than the climbs in the west at least on the Trans America. I started in the west and still found the Appalachians the hardest.