Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
When 95% of what someone writes is nonsense, it’s easy to overlook the rare statement that isn’t.
The whole premise of the question is pretty silly--how many ways are there to slice up a 20 minute ride?
I did a loop over two days last weekend of 156 miles with 8500 feet of climbing carrying about 20 pounds of stuff on my rear rack.. On the Saturday leg, I had a 14 mph headwind in my face for about 30 miles. On the Sunday return leg, 1000 feet of that climbing is in the first 5.7 miles, and I was still feeling the effort I needed the day before climbing into a headwind a bunch of times.. Suffice it to say that under those conditions, I found it more difficult to ride on hills than flat.