My problem last year was that it came up as a Strava segment on my Garmin, so I just tried to pedal too hard. I mashed while shifting to the small ring up front and the chain just missed the ring and fell onto the bottom bracket. I had to get off the bike, get to the shoulder and reinstall the chain. I then got to start in the middle of the hill without getting in the way of the other riders. I hate that hill.

The headwinds were getting a bit tough too last year, but we puled in behind a couple of big guys and that helped a lot. We offered to take some pulls, but they insisted they wanted the challenge. We also had two fixies in our little random group. Damn those guys are nuts.