Show us your humps!
 

Show your typical commute elevation profile

My commute: A massive 1% grade on the way home! (out and back, 10.2 miles each way, 4-5 days per week)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/80043155/commute.jpg

Mostly downhill on the most direct way to work which means it's mostly uphill on the way home.

Distance 11.75 KM
Ascent 81 M
Descent 106 M
Low Ele 40 M
High Ele 106 M
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=300890
Gray is elevation. Yellow is speed.

Edit: the largest 'hump' has a 2% grade over 3km on the ride home.

This is my ride home:

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=300901

I would be embarrassed to admit it, if my commute only had a 75 foot climb over 5 miles.

This is round trip. Going to work is pretty awesome. Coming home is less awesome.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=300912

I get to do some good climbs both ways but coming home sucks way more than going to work. The constant rollers on the service road can be pure misery if there is a strong headwind to go with it. This is why my average pace can vary as much as +/- 6mph for the same route. It's 15.3 miles both ways top is the morning bottom is the evening.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=300931
1-way to work.

This is to work. Mostly uphill except a little dip at the end. Nice on the way home.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=300935

Hills? What are those? ;)

Shanghai is flat as a pancake. The only climb I have on my entire commute is up onto a bridge, which is all of about 6m of elevation gain! :D

On my present commute I think I might gain 80' in 10.5 miles on the way home. :o

http://app.strava.com/activities/41406812
Route to work. 15 miles, 1000-ish feet of climbing, evenly distributed in 150 - 200' chunks.


http://app.strava.com/activities/41469031
Route home. 20 miles, 1000-ish feet of climbing, front and back loaded. Miles 3 through 13 are on a dead-flat bike path.

Here's mine:


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Chicago's flat, man. Depending on which way the wind blows, though, it can be rough. I do sort of miss hills, though.

Same exact one here in New Orleans. I think the total grade change from my front door to my office (minus the four feet I walk down the front steps) is perhaps 5 feet.

I've never measured mine, but I think it's about a walloping 10 feet change for me.

<MARTY_FELDMAN_VOICE> What hump? </MARTY_FELDMAN_VOICE>

Damn your eyes,............too late.

from home to work:

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=301151

from work to home:

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=301150

Foothills of the Rocky Mountains...

I do this on a 7 speed internal hub, 40 gear inches to 100. It works well enough. But I do have quicker routes/bus shortcuts for those days I just dont cant handle it.
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=301205

Yes;
in response to Gene, Young Frankenstein, Wilder's offer: I'm a Doctor I can fix that that hump, then Igor,
[Feldman] says: "What hump?"

My town is built on a hill , oldest part built on the Leeward side, relative to typical winter storm track,
i'm on the western slope, so to get there I go, its around , not over, staying close to the water/sea level.

the wind direction becomes the chore.

no fancy computer widgets to show off.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q...tion_chart.png
elevation chart of home-to-work daily commute

Just for giggles I did mine. Phoenix is flat.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=301270

My legs are burning just looking at that....

Here's mine:

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c1...pse946c1f6.png

The long hill isn't so bad, it's those shorter ~7.5% grade climbs near the beginning that kill me.

Even worse, that elevation map is round trip...so it's a 75 ft climb over 10 miles (ouch). It is what it is. I wish I had a nice hill on the way but, alas, the topography surrounding my home does not provide one. Although there might as well be a nice hill when the Santa Ana winds are blowing strong.

Randy Newman said it best: "Santa Ana winds blowing hot from the north, And we were born to ride."

My current commute is in two parts.
Part 1, from my house to a MTA Park and Ride:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=301307

Part 2 from the bus stop the rest of the way to the office:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=301308

I looked on google maps after I posted this and discovered I have a climb of 110 feet over 5 miles on my way home.

I think us flatlanders need some new metric that takes the headwinds into account to determine difficulty. Something like the windchill.

34 total feet of climbing... since the phone doesnt have an altimeter.

I generally travel the same route, about 4 miles each way. 3 miles of it is flat, and the other 2 have an 80-foot change in elevation (the return trip is uphill, which is the reverse of what I'd prefer). But I'm so out of shape that any slop at all is a "hill" in my book....