Discussion
It's no more perverse than a static bike. It's an arbitrary target but it's something I can use to add focus to my training as I'd like to build more climbing into my rides. It's not really that different from the Club du Cingles at Ventoux, only it can be tackled by anybody without travelling beyond their local hill.
richardxjr said:
8x Alpe D'Huez is a lot more doable than 70x Ditchling tbh. It's mental either way of course.
Absolutely. I am a terrible climber but when I was in the Alps I was amazed at the vertical distance you can cover just grinding it out in the granny gear on a constant gradient. It's all the soul crushing 20% patches that kill me.
Gruffy said:
It's no more perverse than a static bike. It's an arbitrary target but it's something I can use to add focus to my training as I'd like to build more climbing into my rides. It's not really that different from the Club du Cingles at Ventoux, only it can be tackled by anybody without travelling beyond their local hill.
Who rides a static bike for 20 hours though?jamiebae said:
Those rules are crazy! Why on earth can't you repeat a loop rather than just riding up and down the same bit of road?
The challenge is arbitrary and therefore the 'rules' can be whatever they like! I think it's a genuine challenge for all riders, certainly something that requires mental as well as physical strength.LMAO. Some of you lot are daft. People are talking about 8 kilometers of "up" and you pick up on the repetiveness of it? It's 8 sodding thousand metres for gods sake, you'd have to be a mentalist.
[footnote]
("bigest" ride for me so far in my lifetime is 7,800 feet of climbing. The idea of doing over 21,000 feet of climbing is just obscene. [/footnote]
[footnote]
("bigest" ride for me so far in my lifetime is 7,800 feet of climbing. The idea of doing over 21,000 feet of climbing is just obscene. [/footnote]
Couple of guys from the club were all about this. They found a local hill which was around 5% average and worked out the amount of climbs. Last year when I felt stupid I went up and down that same hill (Aston) 10 times one evening then 15 times the next. It was the single most tedious thing I have ever ridden (inc 3hrs on the turbo). They planned to cover that 120m climb roughly 65 times or so, I said they wouldn't do it and guess what 
Come Feb in Tenerife I am planning 4500m on a day ride. That'll be enough to do and maintain a 5-7 days out there. We averaged 2-3000m a day last trip and on the final Teide climb I was as close to quitting anything as I have ever been.
Come Feb in Tenerife I am planning 4500m on a day ride. That'll be enough to do and maintain a 5-7 days out there. We averaged 2-3000m a day last trip and on the final Teide climb I was as close to quitting anything as I have ever been.
Grandfondo said:
Gruffy said:
It's no more perverse than a static bike. It's an arbitrary target but it's something I can use to add focus to my training as I'd like to build more climbing into my rides. It's not really that different from the Club du Cingles at Ventoux, only it can be tackled by anybody without travelling beyond their local hill.
Who rides a static bike for 20 hours though?I love how stupid the concept is. Right up my street. "Because it's there", in the true spirit of Everest.
Gruffy said:
It's no more perverse than a static bike. It's an arbitrary target but it's something I can use to add focus to my training as I'd like to build more climbing into my rides. It's not really that different from the Club du Cingles at Ventoux, only it can be tackled by anybody without travelling beyond their local hill.
It is, it's much more boring. You see the same carrier bags, the same piece of dog s
t, every little change in surface, the drain cover that you have to go around, potholes, the same parked cars and the guy cutting his grass.....finishing the grass and then going off to the pub (probably).Then it rains.
Gruffy said:
It's not really that different from the Club du Cingles at Ventoux, only it can be tackled by anybody without travelling beyond their local hill.
I find the fact that something like the CdC is excluded rather odd. I like the idea of doing an Everest total climb on a single ride. The stipulation that it has to be on a single ascent, over and over again should be something that is permitted if local conditions make it inconvenient to do it over the course of a route, not the main criteria IMHO.
donfisher said:
I find the fact that something like the CdC is excluded rather odd. I like the idea of doing an Everest total climb on a single ride.
The stipulation that it has to be on a single ascent, over and over again should be something that is permitted if local conditions make it inconvenient to do it over the course of a route, not the main criteria IMHO.
I wonder if the rules are an attempt to keep things manageable when it comes to the record-breaking, climb-claiming nature of the phenomenon. I think part of the appeal - childish as it is - is claiming a record for a given hill.The stipulation that it has to be on a single ascent, over and over again should be something that is permitted if local conditions make it inconvenient to do it over the course of a route, not the main criteria IMHO.
Gruffy said:
donfisher said:
I find the fact that something like the CdC is excluded rather odd. I like the idea of doing an Everest total climb on a single ride.
The stipulation that it has to be on a single ascent, over and over again should be something that is permitted if local conditions make it inconvenient to do it over the course of a route, not the main criteria IMHO.
I wonder if the rules are an attempt to keep things manageable when it comes to the record-breaking, climb-claiming nature of the phenomenon. I think part of the appeal - childish as it is - is claiming a record for a given hill.The stipulation that it has to be on a single ascent, over and over again should be something that is permitted if local conditions make it inconvenient to do it over the course of a route, not the main criteria IMHO.
I'm planning one next summer. It'll be 25 loops for Marie Curie, and whilst I'll di them all, I'm trying to get people from work to join me for as many as they feel able. I'm also hoping for a caravan so I can have cooked food, change, and take st in relative comfort.
Don't think I'd manage it on my own though.
t in relative comfort.Don't think I'd manage it on my own though.
Gassing Station | Pedal Powered | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff