- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
having been commuting 68km a day pre-covid, i decided to join my local club again to try and get the miles in.
i’ve done 3 hilly club runs, and have been knackered for even the next day after each. i was also constantly getting dropped (although the group always waited atop the climbs). i hadn’t done any sort of climbing in the last 5 years.
i’ve done 1 flat one, where i was able to stay with the group until all bar the last 5km, which i put down to the distance being greater than the commute distance (c80km).
i’m starting to wonder that, as someone who has never been a natural grimpeur, should i, at 50, give up the hills and just keep to the flat rides.
my non-cyclist wife has suggested doing shorter hilly rides instead to build up.
what should i do?
i’ve done 3 hilly club runs, and have been knackered for even the next day after each. i was also constantly getting dropped (although the group always waited atop the climbs). i hadn’t done any sort of climbing in the last 5 years.
i’ve done 1 flat one, where i was able to stay with the group until all bar the last 5km, which i put down to the distance being greater than the commute distance (c80km).
i’m starting to wonder that, as someone who has never been a natural grimpeur, should i, at 50, give up the hills and just keep to the flat rides.
my non-cyclist wife has suggested doing shorter hilly rides instead to build up.
what should i do?
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