Originally Posted by
FisherQueen
Thank you! That's incredibly helpful! I thought I was stupid for not being able to work the elevation on mapmyride. I now know that my hill is .5 miles and has a 10% grade. Strange; it felt vertical when I was going up it. I'm sure that'll be nothing at all when I have thighs like Lance Armstrong's.
Fisher, that's very, very close to the hill I go up (.6 miles, 11% grade)! It will get easier, I promise, and faster than you think. I still sweat buckets going up, but I am quite a bit faster now! Just keep pushing it a bit further up the hill every day. You'll quickly find those thigh muscles developing
I swam quite a bit but never had leg muscles like this!