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Broderick Rules!
Bummer! Try starting your day fresh with Broderick. I'll bet it is a hill you can climb. I am not the die hard you are. If I stop for a quick break, I just go the rest of the way up from that point. The Santee driveway is slightly steeper (over 40%) and longer, but I zig zag pretty near all the way up. You did some great climbing. Fargo was impressively done. Every climb of yours is impressive. SF is like Dictionary Hill in Spring Valley - without Broderick that is. Maria Ave at 32.5% is the steepest for the 200 foot run with a 65 foot rise concrete section north of Chestnut. I zig zag up that one too. The rest of the streets are between 20% and 30%. You should do the San Diego area too! There are many SF type hills besides Dictionary. There is also that monster climb from the apartment complex on Graves up to Sky Ranch on Rattlesnake Mountain in Santee. On the second switchback the inside of the curve is a bikebreaker (literally; I broke my bike on that stretch 3 times). I've never come close to doing it in one pass. I usually stop at the first switchback or just before it. The switchbacks are also quite steep - perhaps just under 30%, so I stop at the curve on both or at least right before hitting the steepest part (it's got to top 45% for a yard or two) on the second one. Restarting without zigzaging is pretty close to impossible. Anyway, on the top section I may stop again, although I have done that in one bound once or twice. Did you at least finish the climb up Broderick? Your 5 tries would have exceeded the full length, but to finish the climb would have been more gratifying to me than starting over for another try. Great riding!