On Your Right

I was just viewing my Bike Journal Stats and realized that I have climbed 43,629 feet or about 8.26 miles this year so far. That is by riding about 729 miles. While that is not tremendously hilly, I thought it might be interesting to see who would be the first one to 100,000 feet of climbing this year.

Anybody getting close? Or am I the only one anal enough to track feet climbed?

urbanknight

There's a guy in our area who frequently climbs a vertical century and then some every year.

ericm979

I did a bit over 700,000 feet last year. (measured with a Polar, which is known to be conservative).
I'm at 250k or so for this year and I have not been doing much serious climbing training yet.

Of course I know a guy (who posts here some times) who did over a million feet of climbing in a year. I asked him about it and he said it became "like a job". That doesn't sound so fun. So 600-700k is plenty for me. I'm sure there's plenty of local racers who do as much or more climbing than I do, they just don't track it.

logdrum

I do a mimimum of 3kft a week. I have biked all winter and this is the 20th week. There are weeks I've done 8 to 10K although I travelled a total of 10 days this year for work plus one week of bereavement. So on the conservative side I have climbed ~60K to date. I did not even think about it. The last 2 weeks I did my favorite lunch time (2 hr not much work last week) and that was 2.3 K each time plus a 70 miler with almost 5K climbing. I think 60K is not far off but I could be wrong. I will be getting a Garmin 305 so I can have proof.

The million ft climber here on BF is Terry Morse from Californai I think. I think he climbs 4K everyday as if it is a walk in the park. The guy strikes me as being a down to earth fella and probably is not BSing.

Beaker

From my bikely maps, I'm getting in ~6000ft climbing per week, and I'm not getting that many miles per week - 50-60.

I've only ridden ~650miles this year, so that's ~70,000ft of climbing by my back of the envelope. Love the bay area.

azdroptop

124,300 feet so far in 26,400 miles.

umd

I was at 285K as of 5/5 (per that thread). I tend to do about 20K/week.

umd

My garmin tracks it for me. Note that the unit itself tends to be conservative, but MotionBased inflates the numbers. I use SportTracks to tabulate everything and if anything it is even more conservative than the unit. I didn't have the Garmin for all of last year but I extrapolated out 1.2M (I had nearly 1M for April-Dec). I had one week with over 40K feet a few weeks before Everest. I'll probably start doing serious climbing in July.

humboldt'sroads

26,400 miles? Averaging 1,320 miles a week / 188 miles a day? I thought I was the only one who did that.

On Your Right

I didn't know Forrest Gump had taken up Road Biking!!!

aloysius

Those are Danny Chew numbers!

logdrum

Looks like BS big time, that means you had been out distancing what the TDF guys do in 3 weeks and you'been doing 200 miles or so everyday since Jan 1.

umd

I'm guessing that rather than BS, its most likely a misplaced comma

azdroptop

Oops. 2650 miles. Thanks umd for the back up.

umd

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"

Words to live by

Note that I'm not calling you stupid, just something I like think of when I see a mistake being made, to remember that its more likely accidental than intentional.

LanceFanBoy

the BikeWire leader on the Leaderboard is up to 165,500 feet for the year

umd

I wanted to try BikeWire but there doesn't appear to be any kind of mass upload option. I don't want to have to type in every ride... thats the reason I stopped using BikeJournal. Can you add something where you can upload a CSV file of ride data? You can define the fields, and not try to match an existing format (e.g. gpx) if that's easier for you.

LanceFanBoy

I'm no tthe statbook programmer, BUT i did tell him to at least get a CSV upload ready before Memorial Day, because I'm going to Baltimore and DC that weekend to hand out like 2,000 flyers.

What people have been doing is picking an old date somewhere in like jan-april and just put in their totals as 1 lump ride, then put in this months rides (15 max now?) to catch up on the leaderboard.

I know the file upload thing is a huge deal, its just hard to motivate programmers who don't get paid. Plus we're trying to finish the Mapper and Mile Markers are being a huge ***** in Javascript.

umd

I understand what you are saying about the adding 1 lump ride, but that only helps half the problem. If I can't upload I won't keep updating it either. I do like 20 rides a week and don't want to have to sit there filling out a form for every one. I already use SportTracks to track my rides and it downloads the data directly from my Garmin. I'm not going to use another tool unless its easy to do so. But I would like to use BikeWire as its fun being able to share my data (especially because I would be on the top of the leader board )

LanceFanBoy

haha, its all about the glory! yeah i hear ya, trust me, its not like i don't want it all to update from each device, i'm still spending time promoting this this haha, its a tough life

merlinextraligh

Solid week. Even though I live in Florida, as Everest Challenge approaches, I'll be getting some weeks that won't be too much short of that.

azdroptop

Very true words to live by indeed!

mattm

all i know is i'm gonna rack up about ~13k feet of climbing on saturday's 400k "three pass" brevet.

steaktaco

I did 4.5 miles in the last 3 weeks, according to Garmin's Training Center. I'm still trying to get how that stacks up.

Edit: Does that sound right for Pennsylvania, about 12 hours a week, 2 of those doing hill repeats? I know the numbers can't lie but a drastic contrast from the OP.

umd

I added my data to Bikewire. Look for me at the top of the leaderboards (mileage and elevation) tomorrow I should be on average speed too, just not at the top. Question, why are they not sorted? maxagl has 2,507 miles, but is #2, before Howard with 3091 miles...