The hill I live on is a 450 vertical foot climb. If I ride 26 days per month (usually more) that's 12,000 feet getting to my front door. My hill interval workout that I do once each week adds at least 3000 vertical feet. Then there's the other climbing I do here and there. 5000' last Saturday for example. I'd guess that in March I was probably good for about 50,000 vertical feet or so, and I was NOT on a mission. I wonder how many vertical feet I climbed in Greece where I was doing at least 5000' daily over about 2 weeks. I wonder if I hit 100,000 vertical feet last August? I'll bet it was about 75K or so. The longest climbs around here are about 700-1200 vertical feet, 3-5 miles long. Nothing like you get out west.