Originally Posted by
IBOHUNT
Hills suck. There is just no denying that fact.
The moral of the story is; Don't practice what you are good at. Not a lot of point to that.
If you suck at hills go ride hills.
Actually, if I may have the opposite voice, I love climbing! Here is the ride we did Sat.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/263874964
And that one was lots of fun! I even made it a bikeforums ride for the locals. Out here we have lots of long climbs; they can last for a couple of hours sometimes, so you get to be good at climbing when you live out here. In 2012 I rode a tad over 8,000 miles with 540,000 feet of climbing.
The most I've climbed in one day was on the Mt. Shasta double-metric century, and that was 16,500 feet, so lots of fun on that one. I am not particularly light at 160 lbs. and 5'9" and I know lots of heavier riders who do just fine on climbs.
The more you climb, the better you'll like it!
Rick / OCRR