Originally Posted by
chasm54
Were you still fatigued from the previous day? when my HR gets "stuck" it is almost invariably because I have not recovered properly from hard efforts n the preceding days.
Perhaps a bit. I certainly would have been faster if my legs had been fresher and that would have raised my HR. I'm still going to put on an 11-36 and do a comparison.
As climbs go this is tough, but not very long at 3 miles. Our toughest climbs around here are more like 8-10 miles with about 2x the climb. What makes this climb (Quien Sabe) a bit tough is there is not an inch of leveling off unless you consider dropping fr0m 10% to 9.5% leveling off. (Actually, it does feel a bit like that!)