Hills described with scientific instruments

Yesterday, Wednesday March 18th, I managed to put together the puzzle pieces of what has been causing me so much anguish around hills. The weather was fine and altogether the route was delightful with gentle rolling hills of less than 5% grade.  You see our modern age of semi trucks necessitates a highway of no more than a 6% grade because the trucks otherwise can not make it up the hill, even with all ghere mega horse power.  Well the same goes for Diana.  I can not easily make it up hills that are 8%, 9%, 10% or the really over the top of 12% day after day.

Monday's ride and Tuesday's ride took me on a route that had some over the top hills.  They were short and curved and after awhile I could not even make the attempt.  I began to feel inept and that I was losing power rather than becoming stronger.  On Tuesday my bike computer decided to change pages and I discovered that this tool reads the level of the grade.  Wow!  I had been climbing steep hills.  Yesterday, early on as I was riding to La Grange, TX,  I approached a hill that looked too much and it curved around and became a blind curve on a two lane road.  I gave up and began walking up the hill but turned the computer on and  what do you know it was a 9% grade.  Well there you go.  I kept track of the other hills I rode yesterday and I can easily climb up a 1%, or 2% or 4%. Yea, I have not lost strength.