Beautiful day for riding today - 20C, blue sky, sunshine, very light cool breeze.

There's one very short section with a steep climb (a narrow MUP) on my route to work. There was another dude just in front of me who turned onto it first, and there were too many peds to get past him. He them cranked his 286-speed moutain bike down to the lowest granny gear and climbed the hill at a slow walking pace whilst spinning his legs like eggbeaters. In the meantime I'm stuck behind him struggling to stay upright whilst forcing the pedals round agonisingly slowly...!

I've felt like I've been struggling a bit the last few weeks, as if I'm out of condition. Very odd. I'm considering taking the gearing on my SS down a notch or two, as I think it's because I'm spinning less than I was (on my old bike I tended to hold it in a lower gear and keep up a very high cadence). It would also make it easier in situations like that!