Everesting.

[Grandfondo]

Anyone on here done it or fancy trying it?

Sounds like a nightmare to me!

Edited by Grandfondo on Tuesday 18th November 21:59

[Johnny]

Was reading the article in Cyclist last night.

I sat there thinking 'yeah, sounds good, I'll have some of that'

Then I read the full article and decided it's not for me

[okgo]

What is it?

[Grandfondo]

It's climbing the equivalent of Everest in one ride! (8848m)
It's done through Strava and viewed on veloviewer I think.

[yellowjack]

okgo said:

What is it?

Everesting?

It's a bunch of truly sad nutcases going up and down the same hill/mountain continuously for the best part of 24 hours. Along with a set of rules that make the Velominati's "The Rules" look like a 'how to manual' for terminally relaxed hippy pot-heads...

http://www.everesting.cc/the-rules/

Ultimately, the figures are impressive. But it all seems a little pointless, and quite, quite silly.

[GarryDK]

What a completely pointless exercise! I'm in

[anonymous-user]

I think it was something like 120 ascents of Box Hill... personally I'd rahter chew my own testicles off.

[neilr]

The velomnatis so called "rules" irritate me enough without anyone else having more utterly pointless ones!

Altitude of Everest in one ride? - An interesting challenge.

Rules beyond "must be done in one ride" - Utterly ludicrous.

[anonymous-user]

Turns out it was 71 ascents of Box Hill, but would only be 51 ascents of Cheddar Gorge and only 41 ascents of Burrington Combe....

[simoncrouch]

To be fair it actually only be 1 of Everest

[z4RRSchris99]

pablo said:

Turns out it was 71 ascents of Box Hill, but would only be 51 ascents of Cheddar Gorge and only 41 ascents of Burrington Combe....

71 times up box hill would be fking boring

[nammynake]

I've thought about doing this and would probably pick Great Fun Fell.

http://cyclinguphill.com/everesting-great-dun-fell...

It's 14 ascents in total and the road is traffic-free.

[esuuv]

z4RRSchris99 said:

71 times up box hill would be fking boring

but you could eat a lot of cake !!

[uncinquesei]

pablo said:

I think it was something like 120 ascents of Box Hill... personally I'd rahter chew my own testicles off.

You won't need to, thigh/saddle erosion will take care of that for you...

[Daveyraveygravey]

uncinquesei said:

You won't need to, thigh/saddle erosion will take care of that for you...

I won't be sitting down for at least half of it! I've been coerced into a team one, will be a long winter of training...

[walm]

nammynake said:

I've thought about doing this and would probably pick Great Fun Fell.

http://cyclinguphill.com/everesting-great-dun-fell...

It's 14 ascents in total and the road is traffic-free.

It's impressive and all but FFS if you are an expert in it, learn how to spell ascent and descent!!!!!!
(Not you nammynake - the fella wot dun it.)
Accent = allo allo.
Decent = not bad.
Also "Phil the masseuse" WOT!?

[richardxjr]

Hmm. Ditchling's up for grabs (Davey?) but Firle's been done, 68 reps.
Bostals will be great for this being one way so low on traffic.

Not that I'm thinking about this at all

[bert11]

pablo said:

Turns out it was 71 ascents of Box Hill, but would only be 51 ascents of Cheddar Gorge and only 41 ascents of Burrington Combe....

Cheddar is done! http://app.strava.com/activities/217666008

[Daveyraveygravey]

richardxjr said:

Hmm. Ditchling's up for grabs (Davey?) but Firle's been done, 68 reps.
Bostals will be great for this being one way so low on traffic.

Not that I'm thinking about this at all

Mine's a team challenge - been done solo but not by a team...
I'm thinking you want something long and gradual, you don't really want to be doing 50+ reps of the same hill do you? In bottom gear,grinking up each and every climb?
I know one in Italy that would be about 4.2 reps...

[jamiebae]

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?