Originally Posted by
Kindaslow
I am having a hard time picturing climbing in Florida. Little hills here and there, but not climbing. That doesn't mean I am questioning the ability to get a good workout. I am just thinking that your kind of riding/trails is a lot different than ours.
Yeah It's shorter climbs, we measure in feet not miles, so we do several per mile, dozens even.
We have a levee that's next to an Interstate, the sides are murder when you go up and down for Intervals lasting
a half hour or so, a real puker.
Most of our single track drops and climbs are under two stories so its the fact that a mile may have several punchy climbs.
We have old phosphate mines that existed before land reclamation was introduced, After the mines moved on from these area's they turned the mined acreage back into original Florida landscapes.
But lucky for us some of this land was left, so our hills are holes.. what goes down must come up
I have no doubt I'd probably struggle on climbs in the Smokey Mountains...
Alafia Is known even In Europe so I feel fortunate to live In this area..