Originally Posted by pihwht
My wife's from a part of Wisconsin which is actually pretty close to flat. There is one rock in the county and it is a tourist attraction. Growing up in the Ozarks, it took me a while to understand why it always felt like I was going uphill when I went out running.
Another hill related lesson:
Every 30 seconds riding downhill at 30 mph requires 2 minutes of climbing at 7.5 mph