Originally Posted by
BikeWNC
No way 8000'+ of climbing. It's called jitter and it adds lots of gain. While 2000' might be a bit low, I looked at the profile and 3000' would be a plenty for this ride.
The Garmin just spits out raw data noise and all. Given all the geekiness in this sport (nutrition, CF, titanium, Powertab, DI2, ....) it would be nice if route descriptions were standardized. Wouldn't be hard to use a standard elevation database with a standard smoothing approach to compare rides (or just standardize on one of the routing websites). A ride once done is a ride remembered, but the first time becomes a bit of an adventure.