As a current commuter who does 8km one way daily, when I started the Loyang slope was the big hurdle each day. You wake up in the morning with sore lower back, aching thighs and throbbing knees. It became a mental thing just to mount up the saddle.
But after a few weeks of constant daily conditioning, fitness improved. No more cramps, no more pain, no more wheezing to get uphill. You would also have familiarized the route and know when to change gears, when to brake, when to speed up.
Unless you were awarded very poor PES levels. You would recall the first time you knock 20 then knock 100, so on and so forth. After some weeks through BMT, you just take it on like it is.
