Ha! Yeah, the fixies stay home for the hillclimbs. Though, Hammer, I thought I noticed a woman riding a Colnago fixed with what looked like a 22T chainring up front?
I'll be putting a triple on, but probably not even bother with starting in the middle ring, opting for just keeping it in the 22T.
If I've done my calculations right, I'll have gear inches of 17, 19.3, 22.2 and 25.1 (beyond that I'm assuming Id be cross chaining too much). I think I started Equinox in about 34.4 gear inches (34T front, 26T back) but went into my second to last gear by the first mile and pretty much stayed there except for the 16% to 18% grades, where I was manually attempting to hold my derailleur into my easiest gear.
Thinking this through now, I might be forcing too high of a cadence to begin with? Guess I could start in the middle ring...but I'm absolutely paranoid of dropping my chain.