MG Data

I’ve noticed recently that I have more power than many people on the flats but when it comes to the climbs I am usually suffering as the same people start passing me. I wondered why and found this good article about it here:

http://www.flacyclist.com/content/perf/hi_pwr_hills_or_flats.html

From this it seems that because I have more power on the flats and less on the hills, I could get faster than the people passing me on the climbs by loosing weight. Problem is I don’t have any weight to loose. I’m already 15 pounds lighter than I was last year and that was all upper body muscle loss. Another thing that doesn’t make sense is the people that pass me on the hills who I in turn will pass on the flats, some of them are larger than me. If they were smaller I can attribute it to their weight but being larger and a better climber but not good on the flats doesn’t make sense according to this article and the physics involved.

Maybe I just suck at climbing.

Another interesting link is at

http://www.cptips.com/climb.htm