Tonight - more hill repeats. Tonights hill was one of the longest steepest ones close by my hose. The climb is 1200' and 2.5 miles which puts the average grade over the entire length at 9%, there are some sections at 12%. We did it twice. It hurt but afterwards my legs recovered quickly. My Knee seems completely healed now. I was only in my lowest gear when at the steepest section. I need to go back and do this again but stay out of the lowest gearing. At the steepest points my speed was down to 3.8mph. Again - I was not as fast as I would have liked, but I did it. My friend who has done Whiteface for the last 3 years said this hill was harder. I only did 2 laps on this hill - 3 would have been the same verticle as Whiteface.

Next weekend - more repeats - but then it's flat riding until the race.