Originally Posted by
bikenh
Trust me drmweaver2, vertical doesn't make a difference. I've been doing a 1-200+ miler each week, sometime more often, now for almost a year and over the past month I've been 200+ milers each week. The 100 milers are normally 600 feet climbing and the 200 milers start around 10,000 and go up to over 13,000 feet of climbing. It takes a lot of work to get me to do a short ride anymore.
I did mean 6000 not 600 feet of climbing on the 100 milers for one thing.
For another thing it all depends on what you are doing regularly for riding. Are you doing flatland riding. If so, if you were to come up here to NH you would suffer big time doing a 100 miler. If you were like me riding up here in NH all the time and you tried going back to LA you would have it extremely easy because of no hills, granted the wind as well as the heat/humidity would take some getting use to. Once you start riding consistently in an environment you get use to the rigors of that environment. Hence why you find doing the 100 milers each day to be nothing. You have gotten use to them...in your environment. The same way I have gotten used to riding 100 milers with 6000 feet of climbing and find them to be nothing...I've gotten use to them.
Gee, one thing I'm learning right now is looking at some stats for long distance riders and seeing someone riding 100-200 milers down your way and getting 6-7000 feet of climbing on the rides. I would have never imagined that kind of vertical in LA.