Getting up hills

menthel

Veronese68 wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Hang on... did I just make a serious post on this thread?

Yes, but I think the OP has run away from the monster he unwittingly created.

ETA Ha ha, whilst I'm writing that he popped back. :oops:

:P

rubertoe

Veronese68 wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Hang on... did I just make a serious post on this thread?

Yes, but I think the OP has run away from the monster he unwittingly created.

ETA Ha ha, whilst I'm writing that he popped back. :oops:

And he said Willy.

cyclingprop

menthel wrote:

So, I asked how to make hills a little less painful on my commute and then it turns into a silly, willy waving bunfight.

Thanks to all of those whom gave useful advice.

You've checked rule #10 right? http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/

menthel

cyclingprop wrote:

menthel wrote:

So, I asked how to make hills a little less painful on my commute and then it turns into a silly, willy waving bunfight.

Thanks to all of those whom gave useful advice.

You've checked rule #10 right? http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/

Commuting on my hybrid with my seatpost bag and courier bag and my glasses tucked inside my helmet straps I think I am probably so far outside the rules that I will be shunned by the general cycling community anyway.

Any for those fans of my use of the word willy, have a fanny on me.

Bustacapp

pangolin wrote:

OMG!

Anyone with any trace of intelligence could deduce that I was referring to this:

What can I do beyond keeping on plugging away to help? Any gym based stuff to improve the strength in my legs, even a little bit?

OMG!

Initialised

menthel wrote:

So, I asked how to make hills a little less painful on my commute and then it turns into a silly, willy waving bunfight.

Thanks to all of those whom gave useful advice.

well some of us tried to keep it o the topic. Thanks for starting the thread as it's given me food for thought during my daily struggles against gravity. As with most people dropping 10kg of gut is going to do more for my speed up hills than technique or gearing. Now where's that Silly thread about weight loss...

pangolin

Bustacapp wrote:

pangolin wrote:

OMG!

Anyone with any trace of intelligence could deduce that I was referring to this:

What can I do beyond keeping on plugging away to help? Any gym based stuff to improve the strength in my legs, even a little bit?

OMG!

A novel new technique for getting up hills being demonstrated by Bustacapp here - backpedalling

Bustacapp

pangolin wrote:

A novel new technique for getting up hills being demonstrated by Bustacapp here - backpedalling

Not backpedalling at all. In fact I forgot about exactly what it was I was answering until I just revisited the OP.

As a result I am more assured than ever that my answer was perfectly acceptable!

rolf_f

Bustacapp wrote:

pangolin wrote:

OMG!

Anyone with any trace of intelligence could deduce that I was referring to this:

What can I do beyond keeping on plugging away to help? Any gym based stuff to improve the strength in my legs, even a little bit?

OMG!

To be fair, it's not an entirely unreasonable assumption to make that the OPs question was exclusively related to gym based solutions in which case your response is logical though it is equally logical to assume it wasn't. But on the other hand, squats are still a pretty ineffective solution and even if the OP doesn't want to do repeats, his climbing will benefit far more simply by attacking the hills he does climb much more aggressively than any from amount of squats.

You'd have helped your cause somewhat simply by quoting the part of the question you were responding to.

Kieran_Burns

menthel wrote:

So, I asked how to make hills a little less painful on my commute and then it turns into a silly, willy waving bunfight.

Thanks to all of those whom gave useful advice.

I'd like to point out I wiggled my arse not waved my willy.

It's an important distinction. 8)

rick_chasey

Kieran_Burns wrote:

menthel wrote:

So, I asked how to make hills a little less painful on my commute and then it turns into a silly, willy waving bunfight.

Thanks to all of those whom gave useful advice.

I'd like to point out I wiggled my ars* not waved my willy.

It's an important distinction. 8)

Good to establish who gives and who receives.

Kieran_Burns

Rick Chasey wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

menthel wrote:

So, I asked how to make hills a little less painful on my commute and then it turns into a silly, willy waving bunfight.

Thanks to all of those whom gave useful advice.

I'd like to point out I wiggled my ars* not waved my willy.

It's an important distinction. 8)

Good to establish who gives and who receives.

My poop chute is output only thanks.

rick_chasey

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

menthel wrote:

So, I asked how to make hills a little less painful on my commute and then it turns into a silly, willy waving bunfight.

Thanks to all of those whom gave useful advice.

I'd like to point out I wiggled my ars* not waved my willy.

It's an important distinction. 8)

Good to establish who gives and who receives.

My poop chute is output only thanks.

Didn't realise you were that niche.





;-)


ok I'll stop now

veronese68

Kieran_Burns wrote:

menthel wrote:

So, I asked how to make hills a little less painful on my commute and then it turns into a silly, willy waving bunfight.

Thanks to all of those whom gave useful advice.

I'd like to point out I wiggled my ars* not waved my willy.

It's an important distinction. 8)

2 seals again?

EKE_38BPM

tgotb

itboffin

@RC did you know under your forum name it says "site admin" :roll:

Initialised

Hills are pure evil I tell you:

meanredspider

I'm afraid that doesn't count as "hilly". 700ft in 9 miles fails the test... :roll:

rolf_f

meanredspider wrote:

I'm afraid that doesn't count as "hilly". 700ft in 9 miles fails the test... :roll:

It's amazing what vertical scale exaggeration does for making a climb look scary! Mind you, shown in proportion almost any climb looks disappointingly unimpressive!

rjsterry

meanredspider wrote:

I'm afraid that doesn't count as "hilly". 700ft in 9 miles fails the test... :roll:

Well it's 700ft in 5 miles, and then back down again actually.

CiB

Hills? If you can try to catch Eurosport's coverage of The Tour Of Turkey today - I caught a bit this morning (boy had left the tv on) and the lead group were holding off a chase group at a reasonable pace, on what looked like a 1 in 8 trip up the side of a mountain. The way to get up it seemed to be to weigh no more than 7 stone, have a half-ar$ed beard thing going on round the fizzog and grit your teeth a lot as you grind up on a 39/25. Easy. Probably.

Bustacapp

CiB wrote:

Hills? If you can try to catch Eurosport's coverage of The Tour Of Turkey today - I caught a bit this morning (boy had left the tv on) and the lead group were holding off a chase group at a reasonable pace, on what looked like a 1 in 8 trip up the side of a mountain. The way to get up it seemed to be to weigh no more than 7 stone, have a half-ar$ed beard thing going on round the fizzog and grit your teeth a lot as you grind up on a 39/25. Easy. Probably.

I watched that last night. That was some brutal climb!

stu-bim

CiB wrote:

Hills? If you can try to catch Eurosport's coverage of The Tour Of Turkey today - I caught a bit this morning (boy had left the tv on) and the lead group were holding off a chase group at a reasonable pace, on what looked like a 1 in 8 trip up the side of a mountain. The way to get up it seemed to be to weigh no more than 7 stone, have a half-ar$ed beard thing going on round the fizzog and grit your teeth a lot as you grind up on a 39/25. Easy. Probably.

I could grow a half ar$ed beard

meanredspider

rjsterry wrote:

meanredspider wrote:

I'm afraid that doesn't count as "hilly". 700ft in 9 miles fails the test... :roll:

Well it's 700ft in 5 miles, and then back down again actually.

That was my point earlier in the thread - a 100ft/mile definition of "hilly" would mean (on exactly the type of hill above) that you're climbing 200ft/mile on the "Up" bits. A 14-mile ride means 1400ft of climbing in 7 miles (on a ride like that) - that's beyond "hilly". Personally, I really don't like that "definition"

rubertoe

according to garmin i have 1200 feet of ascent on my home commute of 14 miles. which consits of two hills and the odd bit of up but not hills. Would that be considered hilly?

tgotb

stu-bim wrote:

I could grow a half ar$ed beard

Which part of your anatomy would you grow it on?

rhext

I did 580 feet in 1.5 miles a couple of weeks ago. Does that count as 'hilly'?

Seriously though. I used to hate climbing hills. Then, about half-way up the one I tend to think of as the 'final kick in the teeth' on my commute home, I found myself asking the following questions:

1) Does anything actually hurt, or is it just a bit uncomfortable?

2) Am I in a race?

3) Does anyone except me care two hoots what gear I'm using?

Once I'd worked out that the answer to all three of those questions was 'no', it kind of took the fear away. And after I'd stopped trying to grind up them in the highest gear I could, and started just spinning up at a (relatively) comfortable pace, I found that I started getting up them quicker! Now they're just part of the ride (like freezing rain and headwinds).

meanredspider

rhext wrote:

I did 580 feet in 1.5 miles a couple of weeks ago. Does that count as 'hilly'?

Seriously though. I used to hate climbing hills. Then, about half-way up the one I tend to think of as the 'final kick in the teeth' on my commute home, I found myself asking the following questions:

1) Does anything actually hurt, or is it just a bit uncomfortable?

2) Am I in a race?

3) Does anyone except me care two hoots what gear I'm using?

Once I'd worked out that the answer to all three of those questions was 'no', it kind of took the fear away. And after I'd stopped trying to grind up them in the highest gear I could, and started just spinning up at a (relatively) comfortable pace, I found that I started getting up them quicker! Now they're just part of the ride (like freezing rain and headwinds).

This is spot-on. Embrace them and they disappear

rick_chasey

itboffin wrote:

@RC did you know under your forum name it says "site admin" :roll:

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