212 this morning. And I'll still kick your ass in the climbs.

The majority of midwest mountain biking is lots of rolling terrain with quick steep climbs. By preserving momentum and really stomping on the pedals, the climbs are actually where I do most of my passing in races.

It's also where I pull my most fiendish tricks. If I've got some skinny spinner stuck behind me on the single track, I'll just push a huge gear to the point of crawling up the hill and burn them out.

And when push gets to shove, I can run up hills faster than most of my competition can spin the bottom two or three gears on a MTB.

Just don't talk to me about the longer multi-mile climbs. I, uh.... gotta work on those some.