I'm sure my climbing would improve if I lost weight, but honestly I feel it's one of my stronger points. Not saying I'm aces or can beat everyone in the world up a hill, but relative to my performance group (rec riders) I tend to work harder to keep up on the flats and end up dropping ride-mates on hills.

Oh yeah, 5'10" and 195 lbs.

But I do want to lose weight, get down to 180 ideally (last time I was that skinny I looked pretty ridiculous...I'm one of those big framed, farm kid types), and I'd probably be even quicker on the hills. Just need to cease and desist with the Chipotle every other day