11:44 AM
A "friend" took me up one of his favorite hills today. Turned the corner and it was like a wall. The first 300m climbs 46m at an average of 14%, but parts were over 24%! I got down to 8kph, walking speed, except I don't think I could walk up it that fast. After we got to the top of that first pinch he says (as we're climbing a bit that's only 10% or 12%) "there's another steep bit around the next bend!"
Blow me down if he doesn't lead a descent after that, so that when we got onto the main climb we still had 300m of climbing left. I was knackered before we got to the base of it, and it starts at 8-10-12%
When we got to the top it was cold, windy, and raining, as it does in the mountains.
All in all, a lovely day out ;-)