It's the climb up along the Southern Expressway - using the bike track silly
The climb itself starts at Seacombe Rd and ends at Majors Rd. This isn't the steepest hill around but it's fairly long and worthy of more than a few huffs and puffs. Here's a link to the bikely map, but of more interest is the profile which is shown below. I don't believe that dip in the middle is really there - though it does flatten off through through there, you are still climbing.
This wasn't a hill beaten by sheer thuggery - I have a loonnnggg way to go before doing that. She needed a bit of finness and cunning. On this ride, it came about 15km into the ride - I ride with my son to school, then turn around and ride home so I'd already fought some pretty fierce (though shorter) climbs. Approaching the climb, I backed right off to allow myself a chance to recover - HR down below 130 and stable, then onto the climb. Right from the go, I put her in the granny, the bottom granny. Yes, I know some of you will raise eyebrows at that, but this is a long run and making it to the top is all about HR, not strength. Keeping the cadence ticking over at around 90 (a good climbing rate for me - higher to muscle a hill, lower is just hard work), I just ground up that hill. There are a number of places where the climb flattens after a steep section - rather than run up through the gears like I normally would, I kept in bottom gear, let the cadence drop a little if appropriate, and recovered. Constant effort just shoves the HR right up - it'll hover around 170 and then go through the roof and once it does that, I have to stop and recover (unless it's only for a short period). Well, today I managed to keep the HR in the 150's with excursions into the 160's and didn't once break 170 (though it hovered there for a bit). The lowest HR seen on the climb was about 138, so you can see that I was able to recover while still climbing, simply because I kept in that lowest gear - lots of observation and experiment has taught me that no matter how you feel or think you feel, go one gear too high on a stiff climb, and the HR gets out of control pretty quickly - the trick is to keep it under control so that when it does have to climb, it climbs slowly and drops back quickly. Up to now, I just haven't had the fitness or strength to do so with the gears available.
My aim now will be to develop my strength and fitness so that I can start using higher gears in the easier bits. Of course, losing some weight would help too, but that's proving as stubborn as dried **** on a blanket. I'm going to wind up the fittest clydesdale on the forum at this rate.
Richard
No wonder I'm knackered 
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