Originally Posted by
Machka
It can make a climb a killer!! I did a 33.3 km ride with three climbs today in 32C heat and by the time I did the third climb, I was suffering. It was the steepest of the three climbs as well.
I did my first century this summer (actually 167k) as my first ride over 62miles (100k) in around 30C heat. 6000ft/1800m climbing with a few over 10%. in the first 50mi i felt awesome and tapped out a shortish steep hill around 15% no problem.. near the end around the 80mi mark was only like 8% but my legs were cramping up and feet were killing me and i had to stop a few times to rest ( no walking tho)
It's no match for the Cali folks but for E.Conn and W. RI this is about as big as we get.
