What you don't find out your own back door? A mere mile and a half from home I found a short route to practice hill climbing on. Lately I have spent a great deal of time traveling the dirt back roads around my community, I had a route to a County Park that I followed several times. Often I wondered what lie ahead if I continued on the road I was on and didn't turn to take the road to the park. On Monday I decided to explore it. I found a set of four rolling hills. Whee! In a short span of just over a mile and a half I had the opportunity to practice hills and momentum. I had so much fun I went back on Wednesday and did them again. These are going to be part of my routine and I hope to tackle that route once a week for climbing practice. They are clustered together, steep and have very short pinnacle tops. According to MapMyRide of just this short section there is one catagory 5 climb in it.
It's a great workout plus it's a lot of fun too. Gets a bit scary on the downhills with dirt roads but thrilling too. Speeds are just above 25 mph and with gravel, rocks and very limited sight distance it does get hairy! It's also a beautiful ride with a very thick tree canopy overhead that keeps you in the shade, portions are like being in a deep forest. Slightly spooky, very cool.
If I manage to keep this into a weekly routine I bet I get stronger pretty quick.
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