Indiana is flat.
Pancake flat.
I noticed when we took our kids on vacation to Michigan.
"Look, Mom! That funny road goes up!"
I realized then that their childhoods had been deprived of hills.
And hills take different biking muscles than long flat distances (my forte).
I know because I have biked the Hilly Hundred in southern Indiana (yes, they have hills.
The glaciers stopped their flat-ironing mid-Indiana).
When I bike hills it works my thighs more.
Flats do the calves.
I'll need both thighs and calves to bike across all of America.
Luckily, I live in the valley of the Big Blue River of Henry County which actually does have hills.
There is the notorious Turtle Crossing where twice in one week I had to stop to rescue a turtle who was trying to cross the bridge.
(which is better than the time the kids remember when I stopped on State Road 3 - a 6 lane highway - to rescue the ugliest snapping turtle from being smushed.....and he peed on me!)
We have the town of Mount Summit - an awe inspiring name to a town that challenges a pancake to flatness.
We do have some great hills on Greensboro Pike near Westwood Park - some of them are almost half a mile long!
Will I be ready for the Rockies?
7 comments:
come visit in the bay area! we have the opposite problem!
some of the climbs in the 80 ride were 5 miles long. and they didn't even call those mountains!
crs
I remember seeing mountains for the first time now i live in them =D and i totally remember you saving that dang turtle! lol it reminds me of when Sarah Cole and I managed to drag a giant snapping turtle off of a country road (we did it but having him attack SCole's shoes and when he bit down we drag him a little further lol!)
Pretty hilly here too, though I think the Bay Area is worse/better. I hope you are going to blog the Chris family visit to Indiana - I'd like to know what happens.
You need to hit the NW corner of the Michigan's lower peninsula, for some real Michigan hill riding. DALMAC or Michigan Mountain Mayhem. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinktandem/3924254129/in/set-72157622307382373/
Too many hills, not enough hills. It's never just right.
In and out of the Wabash valley is a good workout.
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