Originally Posted by
mattm
i start to think of rides as "hilly" when you have at least 300m gain over 16km or so (aka >1000ft of gain per 10mi)
even then, if that was a straight climb it wouldn't be worth much. for something like a pass, you can be gaining something like 2000ft per 10miles. (3.8% grade)
I subscribe to that philosophy. Over long distances that ratio tends to be a hard ride.
mattm-- did my 600km (373 miles) last Sat/Sun in 27:20 it had almost 18,000 feet of climbing. It's on my blog. Finished the series so hello fellow SR!
Back to the OP's question here is a lunch time ride I used to do. Almost exactly the numbers the OP was asking about. Not a hard ride but that 1.3 mile 6% hill in the middle of the graph could hurt depending on who should up. Today I did 11 repeats on that hill. It's on my blog.
