Warm up with a 10-minute run to the base of a hill that has a steady (but not overly steep) slope.

Another story tells of a little train that had to climb a steep hill. The hill was so steep that the little train had a hard time trying to get over it.

The mountain road is very steep and difficult to climb, but everybody's fervor does not reduce, upward crawls in one vigorous effort.

It was thrilling to have managed such a steep climb in the heat - plus we now had an equally steep downhill stretch to look forward to.

They loved it because you could only get to it by the bridge across the creek; the surrounding trees and the steep bushy cliff behind shut it in like a house in a forest clearing.