Originally Posted by
Barrettscv
Great result & a great way to start the year!
Thanx! It's #3 in my R-12 series; 3 down, 9 to go.
Originally Posted by
Mr. Beanz
I've only done one metric double, Cool Breeze, 7200 ft of climbing. I spent a whole lot of time waiting for my 2 partners at the tops of the climbs. Riders really should train more on climbing. Partners didn't want to do the final climb so we cut the 128 course short to 124.
I believe Homey was there that year. I think he did the 100 miler, he wanted to be first to the ice cream rest stop!
I've been doing quite a bit of climb training for this season; there are some great climbing brevets I've got planned for this year.
The Bellingham 300k is rolling to flat, with only 1 real climb... Mt. Baker. 4200' in 25 miles, and the summit is the 100k marker in the course.
Then there's the 3 Volcanoes 300 in the fall, which climbs the high roads of Mt. Adams, Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens. The elevation on that one should total up around 14,000' I think, and I might need all 20.5 allocated hours to finish since we're promised "long stretches of gravel roads" by the organizer. Looks like I'll be slapping some 32mm, or maybe even 35mm tires on for that ride.
Most of the 200k rides the Seattle Randos put on are between 6500 and 8500' of climbing, but because the time frame for a brevet is so long, you can ride at a comfortable pace as opposed to a hilly club/organized century, where they expect the "slow" people to be coming in at 7 hours. (YMMV) There were a couple organized century rides here last year where I rode 20 miles to the start, rode the hilly century and arrived to see them pulling down the tents and packing up at 8 hours post-start, and then rode home thinking "well, that's just rude."