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FatManOnAFixie
My ride pales into insignificance compared to some of them climbs you lot do, but.... today I attempted to follow a route that 'proper-grown-up-cyclists' take across some Kent Hills. On RideWithGPS I found a ride described as 40 Miles via Yorks Hill which I loaded onto my Garmin Touring thingyumn and set off for the afternoon. It turns out this route is used by the grown-ups and is called (I believe) the 'Epic Hills Challenge' or some such, there were flyers tied to road signs and telegraph poles all along most of it, duh!
Kerrikey! I nearly died at least 23 (approx!) times today trying to climb some of these Hills, I've very little experience of Hill-climbing and maybe, just maybe, a SS bike wasn't the wisest choice also. Double duh!
I've got a PB for elevation gain according to the Garmin Connect programme but boy o boy did I suffer. I had to bail about 2/3's into the route and make tracks back to relatively flat roads back home because my short fat hairy legs felt like not legs anymore. At one point I actually got off and walked! Yorks Hill is mad, hats off to peeps that can cycle up that, I can't.
I dun this today...
I need to snooze now :-)