I never found the downhill to be terribly difficult, just pedal like crazy going down, get up to max speed at the bottom and you can drive up to the top fueled by momentum and the downhill speed you gained. It would be a lot more difficult however if there was heavy traffic and one were unable to get a lot of speed going.
Right, but now I've got the uphill direction. And the switchback right at the Lee Highway/66 exchange is unfriendly.
We'll see - part of it is that I don't do it enough (yet.)
MDS - thanks for the recommendation. I'm a bit smaller in all three dimensions - 5'8"/180, so I don't know how much that changes things. I think for a while I'm going to struggle with the Trek and see how much I do it. If it grows into a regular thing, I'm going to reward myself and get a new bike and keep the trek to haul the little one on the bike seat.
Ah well - no more delaying. Up the hill I go.
