Nemisis hill

[delphi]

Morning all

I've been cycling since May doing between 8 - 20 miles a day in the week and sometimes more or less at the weekend. I did the London to Oxford ride in July and then the Oxford to Cambridge 90 miler a few weeks ago. I'm building up to London to Paris next year and despite an argument with a car that earnt me an ambulance trip and some thieving git stealing my replacement bike after the crash I am still keen.....that said I have a hill that is my nemisis. It's not on my normal commute, but I go off before work for a circuit around the park so that I have to do it most days. At first, before I got a road bike, I just couldn't get up it. Now I can get up it and even overtook some poor person that looked like me on my first trip there (weaving all over the shop) and beetroot red. What I want to know is, how long before I can get up it without sounding like a 90 year old chronic asthmatic? Or feeling like my lungs will burst and my legs won't stop shaking?

 

[HJ]

Hallo and welcome, good to hear that you are still keen, keep at it, it will just get better...

 

[tomfysh]

Hi I am sure we all have that nemesis hill, mine is a small but long incline of 2 miles on the start of all my rides its on thr edge of romney marsh in kent, cycling 60 ish miles per week for the last 6 months & it still make me sound like an weezing elephant!!!!!
as dori says (Nemo ref) just keep swimming!!!!

 

[Ranger]

It doesn't seem to get any better, you just get fitter and then go faster so you still sound like an asthmatic 90 year old.


Or maybe it's just me

 

[MGBLemonrider]

I have a short steep one ( 51m over .5km) that I incorporate in to some rides. Initially had to come out the seat, now can do the whole hill seated, just a case of speed and perhaps getting out of bottom gear (unlikely) so it will be how far up till change down into bottom.
Other hills on my commute I used to have to go into bottom, now I don't- still knackered but at work quicker, not sure this is a good thing.