Originally Posted by
eaglesandcycling
I'm just curious. Using the metric system here FYI. If you ride say 40km, what is your normal goal as far as climbing for that ride, in meters? How about a 60km ride or an 80km ride? This is a very general question I know, just wondering what people are doing out there.. For me, I'm thinking a pretty easy 50km ride (regarding climbing) would be climbing 200 or 300 meters. A tough ride would be climbing 1000 meters (for a 50km ride). But i'm sure there are folks in here doing 5000 meters in 50km lol.
I don't necessarily have climbing goals, but looking at my Strava feed, most of my gravel rides are roughly 100' of climbing per mile average (that's round trip -- meaning the first half of the ride is 200' of climbing per mile, and the second half is -200' per mile). So, converting that into metric, we get 30.5m climbing per 1.6km riding, or roughly 19.1 meters of climbing per km. So, in a 50km ride, that would be 955 meters of climbing. Pretty close to what you are saying.