Climbing Hills
I’ve done several 100 mile bike trips (a century for all they cyclists out there). The course we did had a 1 mile uphill. Obviously this sucked.
Here comes the metaphor of the day. Sometimes all you could do was stare at your front tire and watch it move! Staring at the top of the hill was too discouraging. In other words, measure your small accomplishments day by day and don’t worry about that lofty goal just yet.
The reward was a 2 mile downhill waiting on the other side where you could easily hit 45 miles per hour (I really thought my bike was going to fly apart, another guy in front of me said he hit 55mph).
