WickedShark

So I would like to know how my profile looks to other more experienced riders. Are these rolling hills or would some of these be considered actual hills that require some work for other riders.

I used to have to work really hard on a couple of them but now I only really get my heart rate up and my legs feel it on the larger one. I no longer have to use my easiest gears to pedal in and I am on my large ring for most of the ride except a couple of what I still consider to be my hills. My average speeds are around 14-15mph. Well in the morning it is 15.5mph since i get to go down them. I have a double 53/39 with a 11-25 on the back.

Mr. Underbridge

I don't know, a couple of them look decent. Of course, you have one option - if it's too easy at 14mph, it won't be at 20mph.

WickedShark

The two large hills I am actualy only doing between 10-12mph. On some of the other parts I am averaging like 20+ which is why my average is around above 15mph sometimes. It takes me around 50 minutes on the way home and around 45 on the way to work to make this trip of actual riding time. I am also very new to riding and have only been riding for a little over a month or so.

Little Darwin

Sometimes definitions vary depending on where you are riding.

Where I live, those are probably rollers.

In Florida, they are mountains.

In Portland, I don't know.

I live on what I consider a gentle slope, and when I realized my frontage is 300 feet, and rises a little over 30 feet, the math works out to over a 10% grade... What people here call flat, people in other parts of the country call rolling hills... so you probably have a couple of real hills there.

JMRobertson

reminds me of the movie "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill..." Why should it matter what other people call your hills? Sounds to me like you're getting a fine workout.

maddyfish

The biggest is 110 feet of 3/4 mile or so, I'd call those rollers. But it doesn't matter what we call them. If you want to work on your hill climbing, maybe you can use a different route with more hills? Or just decide that you will hold X speed (faster than you do now) up the hills. Add 1 mph to X every week.

apricissimus 

I'm still unclear exactly what "rolling" hills are. I'm sure there's no precise definition, but I totally in the dark as to whether the hills I ride roll or not.

P.S. The title of this thread is like poetry.

leadchucker

The real question is - do they rock?

Sorry, couldn't help myself!

WickedShark

Yes we do not have to many rocking hills in Oregon.

The two larger hills are tough for me still. Although I am much stronger now as compared to when I started those two hills are still very tough for me. I do not use my easiest gears. I usually have two more gears I can switch to but all that seems to do is rasie my heart rate more. On the first hill I can average around 9mph and my heart rate will reach 175 or so at the top. The second hill my heart does not quite get that high but still around 170 and I average around 11mph. I need to go start climbing larger hills to build my strength and stamina for hill clmbing I guess.