Everesting Tips
 

I'm planning an Everesting attempt for next May and since it's my first time, I had some questions to ask those who've done it or attempted it.

Would I be best served finding a hill nearby my home that climbs around 200' in 0.4-0.5 miles or would it be worth the long journey (3.5 hour drive one way) to the mountains where I can get 1,400' of climbing in a 4 mile stretch? I had initially planned to do the drive but it's a huge investment in planning, time and money (I am imagining I'd be too exhausted to drive home afterwards so I'd have to get a hotel) so now I'm thinking to try with the much shorter hills around me.

For those of you who have tried it, would you think it'd be way too boring to do 150 repetitions of the same hill? The plus side would be that my efforts would be much shorter and easier to train for (4 minute intervals instead of 30) and coordinating would be a breeze. Buuuuuut...150 repetitions on the same hill sounds horrendous. If you did choose to go the shorter hill / high rep method, what did you do to keep your mind occupied?

As I write this, I realize that I am leaning towards the closer-to-home route as well because should I fail my attempt, I wouldn't have driven 7 hours+ out of my way to try it.

Any other tips I should be aware of during my training for the attempt and for my attempt itself?

You don't want too long of a climb, and you want the hill to be steep, but not leg breaking. The climb is tough, but the descents are time sucks, and you'll eventually want to try and speed them up, at a time when you may not be in any condition to descend at a snails pace.

^ What LAJ said. I've never come close to attempting this, but I'm damn sure I wouldn't want to deal with a steep, twisty descent over and over again, no matter how short it is. I'd prefer something in the 6-8% range with maybe a couple mid-climb level-off spots to recover.

Century Per Week: Everesting: Under the Freeway Climb in Reno, NV

This contains detailed blogs of his four everest rides including the one up a mind-numbingly short 64' hill.

Should be good for a few useful tips.

Whoops, sorry guys! I thought I responded but never actually did! I think that point about an easy descent is a very good one as one of the routes I was looking at has twisty and steep descents but I realized that not only would I get super fatigued of that descent but my bike brakes/wheels would as well. I found a few options nearby that are pretty much straight up and down so no brakes required - however, I had a question about momentum. There's one hill that's profile looks like an U - am I "allowed" to go from one peak to the other instead of always turning around at the valley? Or would the momentum generated from descending "disqualify" my attempt in the eyes of the purists? If possible, I'd like to avoid constantly braking at the bottom of a 10-12% hill as if I do that 160+ times, it'll wear quite a lot on my brakes.

Ha.

I consider the possibility of an everest ride, & think about pavement, traffic, grade, & food/water,

but never thought about wear on the brakes. It represents somewhat over a month's worth of normal elevation gain for me,

& I don't really think about brake wear more than once a year, so I'll resume not thinking about it.



I think the climbing should be continuous bottom to top with no dips, but coasting to a stop at the bottom doesn't seem like an issue.

Theoretically, the ride could be one climb with no descending at all.

I don't think I could do 150 laps up a hill. That takes some fortitude.

I don't think I could even have sex 150 times in one day.

How many pumps per minute we talking .

I think the real questions is what device do you use to record. How do you keep it charged .if you pick one hill like i did does it count if you swing back by your house and go up a hill to get there .my results say 16 hours at 4 mph .