Originally Posted by
truman
In beautiful terrain, you need to get off and push one in a while so you can look around anyway. Riding there is a rare opportunity, don't skip it because you're scared to climb. The hard part about climbing is hurrying. If you don't hurry, you can climb about anything.
Good advice. If you get tired just stop and enjoy the scenery until you feel like riding again. Patience is a good thing to have when climbing and don't feel that you have to hurry to the top. If you do you'll exhaust yourself. Use your gears and try to keep your cadence constant, there's often a temptation to spin quicker as you go down in gear. Don't do this, remember you're trying to keep your effort constant, not your speed. On long climbs it's nice to get out of the saddle for a while. Also I find that music helps me to climb. It's a combination of the rhythm and that it takes my mind off the effort.
Also try to know what you'll be climbing so you can gauge your progress. Is the climb a mile or 5 miles long. When you start look at your computer so you know how far you're from the top.