Triumphant return to the trippple hill

Thursday night is for biking hills. Over the last few years, I've made a lot of progress, and while I don't love hills by any stretch, my first trip back to the "crit" was a nice surprise.

I got to revel in feeling *powerful* on the bike.

It's a pretty mean little hill combo. You come around a downhill corner into 0.2 miles of 12% grade, U-turn at the top, shoot back up 0.1 miles of another steep hill, U-turn at the top and get back up that first hill.

There's the added "fun" of avoiding any other climbers while bombing down the hill and trying to turn without adding too much recovery to the interval.

For the first hills ride of the season, I did a single hill, then on the next loop went for the trippple hill. I felt strong in both, and looking at Strava data afterwards, there was a good reason for it as both of them were faster than any of my previously recorded efforts.

One of the leaders suggested that I do it in the big ring next time -- which seems like a laughable notion -- however, I'll probably see if it's possible to get up it in the second-easiest gear next time I try.

This week, I'll be riding random hills following the rules of "Uphill Toodle", to be described in a later post.