{"id":146,"date":"2008-08-18T17:48:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T00:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/18\/do-they-even-know-its-uphill\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T17:02:49","slug":"do-they-even-know-its-uphill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/18\/do-they-even-know-its-uphill\/","title":{"rendered":"Do they even know it&#8217;s uphill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have recorded here before, I am a poor climber. Even in the lowest gear of my triple-crank road bike, I find nearby hills like Edgewood and Arastradero challenging to climb, and have to use my leg strength (such as it is), rather than cadence, to ascend the hill.<\/p>\n<p>I have been trying not to use this space to discuss my annoyance with other people, but I would hereby like to register annoyance with every cyclist who thinks it&#8217;s cute to tell me that I should 1) use a higher cadence because it&#8217;s bad to go anaerobic, or 2) go climb La Honda\/Kings Mountain\/whatever road they think I should be able to climb.<\/p>\n<p>I am pretty bad at climbing. I cannot shoot up Edgewood at 12mph like the guys who passed us on the Tour de Menlo, about whom my riding partner eloquently expressed our collective thoughts: &#8220;Do they even know this is uphill?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please, all you people who can do that: for the love of Pete, just shut up, and don&#8217;t tell me what I should climb and how I should climb it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have recorded here before, I am a poor climber. Even in the lowest gear of my triple-crank road bike, I find nearby hills like Edgewood and Arastradero challenging to climb, and have to use my leg strength (such as it is), rather than cadence, to ascend the hill. I have been trying not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}