{"id":3445,"date":"2015-02-10T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T22:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2015-02-10T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T22:49:51","slug":"convincing-can-climb-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/convincing-can-climb-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Convincing myself that I can climb hills\u2026. \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is just one of the small inner arguments that goes on inside my head.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the end of the world if I cannot climb, but it is a challenge I present myself often.\u00a0 If not to prove anything other than to just continue my pursuance of overall fitness.\u00a0 Okay, I admit it.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to be able to simply keep up with my friends and teammates, too!<\/p>\n

Climbing is hard for some of us.\u00a0 You\u2019re grinding away in your small chain ring, wishing you could magically turn that crank faster, and up your cadence.\u00a0 Your thighs are burning and your breathing is labored.\u00a0 Regardless of where you place your hands on the bars, it\u2019s hard to find any relief.\u00a0 Dare I try to stand up and pedal periodically or stay in the saddle?\u00a0 It seems to take forever and all you can think of is the glorious decent that you will have earned on the other side.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, many others, and I were fortunate to have the opportunity to travel to Death Valley, CA. for some amazing cycling and training.\u00a0 We rendezvoused with the RAAM \u2013 Bike Like a Girl 2015 team, two of them who live right here in Reno and are on our local girl-team, the Reno Wheelmen.\u00a0 The icing on the cake was that the coach for both this team and our girl-team, Julie Young of O2fitness and Silver Sage Sports, joined us as well!\u00a0 I cannot tell you how thrilled we were to have her with us!<\/p>\n

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We rode twice the first day.\u00a0 The first ride consisted of quality intervals.\u00a0 As Julie rode by our side, she taught me to lighten up a bit!\u00a0 Being the micro-manager that I am, she taught me quality vs. being a slave to the timer.\u00a0 This is especially helpful for when you\u2019re doing your intervals on a course that requires some flexibility in your timing.\u00a0\u00a0 On day two, we climbed Dante\u2019s Peak.\u00a0 This climb was the nemesis of my trip; I had a bone to pick with this hill!\u00a0 Two years ago, I had to walk parts of that last quarter mile, which has grades of 14-18%.\u00a0 Even though Julie made the summit long before I did her coaching and encouraging voice played in my mind continuously.\u00a0 The trip was rounded off nicely with a fantastic ride out to Scotty\u2019s Castle.<\/p>\n

Because of Julie and her wealth of training and racing knowledge, not only do I have a very strong foundation to build upon, but I have daily expert guidance.\u00a0 When you are in your pain-cave, it is a coach\u2019s voice and training that brings your focus back to what will help you succeed, however that may look to you.\u00a0 So much of this is mental.\u00a0 When you have a coach that you respect and trust, it makes it easier to fight your mind with her\/his words.\u00a0 I have found this with Julie Young and so will you.<\/p>\n

I made it up Dante\u2019s Peak without walking once.<\/p>\n

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This is just one of the small inner arguments that goes on inside my head.\u00a0 It\u2019s not the end of the world if I cannot climb, but it is a challenge I present myself often.\u00a0 If not to prove anything other than to just continue my pursuance of overall fitness.\u00a0 Okay, I admit it.\u00a0 I\u2019d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silversagecenter.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}