Climbing Hills

I came up with my three rules for climbing long hills:

1) Don't look up. Look about 20-30 feet ahead, watching for rocks and obstacles. If you look up, you will get discouraged.
2) Keep the revs up. Also known as "go easy early", as in shift as soon as you start to feel your revs decrease. You want to avoid the burn in the legs, so keeping the revs high helps to do this. Hey, it works for Lance!
3) Eat and drink defensively. Don't wait until you feel thirsty or hungry, just constantly eat and drink.

Of course, going up Anarchist pass, I had to abandon all the rules so I could appear more as a local.