Originally Posted by
jppe
I'm about 90 minutes from Greenville and agree with your perception. If the OP wants to reduce temps/humidity he needs to be looking north of Greenville though....got to get about 3000' above sea level which leads to Asheville. Property in Asheville is probable higher than Nashville but a good area to live and ride if you don't mind it being a mini San Francisco East......
BTW if you did the Gran Fondo you did a lot of my training climbs. Great area to do some riding.
Those are some mighty nasty training climbs lol
I blew up on howard gap, sat down and was ready to climb in the lexus chase car. Left knee locked up.
But after about 10 min I got back up and tacked up against the 20mph head wind.
Ended up doing ~ 5:15, so figure 5:05 without the sitting down time. Disappointing... but I'll take it considering only had a half season riding after a 4 year hiatus.
I've climbed nastier stuff, but the combination of chasing to get on the lead group (made up 2 minutes to catch on) and then holding on the back for a while (tearing up the legs early) plus being on a 39/28 up those 18% climbs just did me in.
Next year I'll be prepared lol I think I can beat a 4:45