Originally Posted by
63rickert
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Climbing is difficult. Period.
Focus on efficiency. Gravity is a constant. Any pause or relaxation, anywhere in the pedal circle, gravity finds that instantaneously. Sounds like your rpm is fine and there are no long pauses. Short pauses are enough to send you backward.
Again, it is just difficult. Always.
I saw this somewhere, I don’t know who to attribute this to, paraphrasing here...” Training never gets easier...you just go faster.”