Adding the Hills

I decided that if I really want to be prepared for RAGBRAI this year, I need to add more hills to my bike rides. My normal routes are pretty flat. The couple of hills I do encounter are gradual, spread out over a mile each, and pretty easy to handle. This is not typical of RAGBRAI.

I rode a 20 mile ride today that added two steep hillls. If I can just force myself to do this ride, or one with similar hills, every other day, I might handle RAGBRAI better this year. In the past, it's been the hills that just kill me and my bad knees.

Today's ride: 20.33 miles; 15.8 mph; temps in low 70's; wind SSE 10-15 mph; cloudy.