that has happened to me so many times, face in the bolts, elbows in, everything and still spinning away just to keep up with guys just coasting.......but then on climbs heavier folks are sweating buckets and I can talk on the way up, so its a ying yang thing.
Yeah, I dig the karma of the uphill. Sometimes though, I end up next to Very large guys at 50+ miles of riding and I am somehow only then passing them on the 4th big climb