Mark White
Active Member
- Location
- Tha Sala, Thailand
A couple of weekends ago I tackled a hill I've had my eye on for a while. It's a bit flat where I live, so I'm usually on the flat except for a few kms at about 4% on a longer run I do and I wanted to find a weekend run that was a bit different. Still, when I got round a corner pretty much at my limit, and saw that it continued winding onwards and upwards, I gave in and turned back. I was only going to do another couple of km before heading for home, but it did feel like a bit of a fail.
Found out just now it 17% at the point where I turned back. Which makes it less of a fail, and more of a challenge that I didn't quite meet :-)
Still, it was a good job I didn't make it another 500m. Otherwise I might have been unable to resist the fast downhill on the other side, and would never have got back up the 26% that it is :-O
Found out just now it 17% at the point where I turned back. Which makes it less of a fail, and more of a challenge that I didn't quite meet :-)
Still, it was a good job I didn't make it another 500m. Otherwise I might have been unable to resist the fast downhill on the other side, and would never have got back up the 26% that it is :-O