super cool intro story.

I had one good day with 3000 feet of climbing last week. I surprised myself by coming within 11 seconds of my PR on the first 1300 foot hill - which I knocked down in 32 1/2 minutes.

The most I've done in a month was over 9000 one time when I was training for a week-long tour ride.

If you guys are really all clydes, hats off and a bow. You sound like my friend who rides like Marco Pantani - small, skinny guy who rides a bike like 48cm frame or something.

Since I've got lots of baby sitting to do this month (the baby is 15 months, too young to sit in a bike seat for long rides ;-( and not a lot of very convenient hills, I'll commit to something besides quantity of vertical feet.

Here goes: I will set a PR for number of "blisters" in a month.
And not literally, thank goodness. There is one hill around hill which only goes up 120 feet or so, but at upwards of a 20% grade - aka the "blister": It's small, but it hurts! So I will knock it down a PR number of times. At least 30. And if I actually figure out how high it is, maybe I can by repetitions also target a monthly vertical count. Will update you.