Most climbing in a day...?

[feef]

My 'feeble' 1590m pales into insignificance by comparison

Living in Cambs, there's not much scope for elevation and I've not done any similar events since

https://www.strava.com/activities/22910354

[Daveyraveygravey]

neilski said:

It wasn't so bad.

I did it in 2010 which is before I was logging rides properly. Tempted to do it again but I remember it as bloody hard towards the end, that climb up from Alfriston with 85 odd off road miles in your legs...

[AlasdairMc]

5168m on a bikepacking route (the Capital Trail). I'd gone out expecting to ride it over two days, but the going was good so I did it in 20hrs.

An Everest sounds like a good challenge to aim for, although I don't know if I'd have the strength of character to continue once I'd got bored.

[neilski]

Daveyraveygravey said:

neilski said:

It wasn't so bad.

I did it in 2010 which is before I was logging rides properly. Tempted to do it again but I remember it as bloody hard towards the end, that climb up from Alfriston with 85 odd off road miles in your legs...

I was talking about the Marmotte.

[Daveyraveygravey]

neilski said:

I was talking about the Marmotte.

Ah, my bad! I was going to ask what would be harder but I think I would vote for the SDW...

[SoliD]

I've done the SDW so many times now it doesn't phase me, it's just getting my head around it when you're 30 miles in and you're thinking can I be arsed.

[Master Bean]

Sa Calobra which according to Strava was a 60 mile ride with 2600m of climbing. Gentle gradients though compared to crazy British hills.

[PomBstard]

About 8 years ago I did The Angry Doctor (tag line "It'll rip your legs off") which was about 3000m in 104 km, just about all of which was off road and the majority was singletrack. Took me about 7 hours, but was fun!

[HardtopManual]

AlasdairMc said:

An Everest sounds like a good challenge to aim for, although I don't know if I'd have the strength of character to continue once I'd got bored.

If you did it somewhere like the Alps or Dolomites, you could probably get away with little or no repetition. Or, there's the Tour du Mont Blanc, which is over 8000m, not sure if it's quite an Everest but you could always extend it.

[mcelliott]

HardtopManual said:

AlasdairMc said:

An Everest sounds like a good challenge to aim for, although I don't know if I'd have the strength of character to continue once I'd got bored.

If you did it somewhere like the Alps or Dolomites, you could probably get away with little or no repetition. Or, there's the Tour du Mont Blanc, which is over 8000m, not sure if it's quite an Everest but you could always extend it.

Everesting has to be repeats not loops. There is an alternative to Everesting, which I did last year - it's a normal ride but you have to exceed 10,000m of climbing but a minimum of 450km (from memory) - no hill repeats were necessary.

Edited by mcelliott on Sunday 2nd July 07:47

[E65Ross]

mcelliott said:

HardtopManual said:

AlasdairMc said:

An Everest sounds like a good challenge to aim for, although I don't know if I'd have the strength of character to continue once I'd got bored.

If you did it somewhere like the Alps or Dolomites, you could probably get away with little or no repetition. Or, there's the Tour du Mont Blanc, which is over 8000m, not sure if it's quite an Everest but you could always extend it.

Everesting has to be repeats not loops. There is an alternative to Everesting, which I did last year - it's a normal ride but you have to exceed 10,000m of climbing but a minimum of 450km (from memory) - no hill repeats were necessary.

Edited by mcelliott on Sunday 2nd July 07:47

Why does it have to be repeats, not loops? I just thought it was that you have to do a ride and climb the elevation of Everest?

[SoliD]

SDW superceded by La Marmotte for me...

https://www.strava.com/activities/1064338077

[ALawson]

SoliD said:

SDW superceded by La Marmotte for me...

https://www.strava.com/activities/1064338077

That's a great time, first two climbs were ok, Glabier was a little painful, descent of the back was ok down to Borg. AdH well at least I didn't get off and push. I did need to de-robe and drink a huge amount of water to cool down.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1064661442

I was more than happy with 9hr 21 as beating the cut off had (1 year ago) been the target. What better way to spend you delayed 40th birthday with some mates.

[pete]

Another Marmotte for me, or rather Marmotton - I missed the 18:30 time cut by almost an hour, so my first trip to the high mountains ended 14km and 1000m short at Bourg d'Oisons:

https://www.strava.com/activities/1064491312

(ignore the 5500m of climbing, 4000+ was more like it; something odd happened with my GPS trace on the Glandon ascent, so Strava thinks I did a massive detour up and down the side of the valley)

Having said that, I was pretty pleased to even get over the Galibier and back almost home in 9 and a half hours, but I spent way too much time eating and resting - almost 2 hours in total. Once I knew I was going to miss the cut it was an easy decision to carry on up to the top of the Galibier to enjoy a 45km descent. Having trained for only 5 hours a week this year, I knew from the start that it would be a battle for survival and a gentle pace was the only way to get round, and so it proved!

I'd recommend the Marmotte to anyone considering it for 2018. Just do a bit more sweet spot training than I did :-)

Edited by pete on Tuesday 4th July 15:40