timhines

I read a lot of posts about people's mileage. So I got to thinking, what is your average elevation gain on your daily rides (commute, training, fun, etc).

I hope this picture displays properly. The closest ride to my house that we do after work is only a 19 mile loop. But half of it is on an uphill grade. Fun coming back, not as fun going up.

Total Miles = 19
Total Elevation gain = 1,350 ft.

Machka 

Unless you ride from Point A to Point B . . . or unless there is a major earth disturbance which causes the start/finish area of your ride to lift several feet in the air while you are out on your ride .......

....... you do not GAIN any elevation!


If you start your ride at home at 2000 ft of elevation ... ride for a couple hours up and down hills ... and return to your home which one would assume would still be at 2000 ft of elevation, you have an elevation gain of exactly ZERO feet.

Chucklehead

^^^

mine is about 1500' over 26 miles. that's a very loose estimate, though, since i've only used a skydiving altimeter while driving to measure it.

psuaero

I try to ride this one a couple times a week after work. Not many big hills here in eastern Maryland so this was the best I could come up with close to home. 1470ft of climbing and 1470ft of descending in 16.1 miles. My personal best is just a tick under 55mins. so far.

mtnroads

Here on the peninsula it is difficult to do a flat ride. My evening rides are generally about 20-25 miles (~60 ft/mile VG), so 1200-1600' of total climbing, and my weekend rides are usually in the 30-40 mile range and steeper (~120 ft/mi VG), usually about 3500-5000' of climbing. There are a lot of folks here who do a lot more than that several times a week.

TheKillerPenguin

About 2000ft for my normal loop. I forget how long it is though, all that data is on my other pc. I think its about 25 miles. Can avg. 20mph over it

Patriot

I used some online topo-maps to get a general idea.

The best guess I can come up with is total of about 2800-3000ft of climbing and a total of 45mi on my commute to/from work.

timhines

very cool.

PSUAERO, what program did you use to chart that ?

Jarery

50k commute (25k each way)
600 ft on way to work
1200 ft on way home
Done 5 times a week

'nother

Yes, for the pedantic, you're talking about accumulated climbing, not elevation gain. Fortunately, for the pedantic or otherwise, it's the accumulated climbing that really matters, not elevation gain (or lack of).

I have several regular rides that vary from about 1,000' to 3,000' of accumulated climbing over about 30 miles or so. In a couple of weeks, I'm going to do one of my regular hill climbs 5 times up and down, for about 10,000' over about 50 miles

No gain, no pain?

Rushfan

10' maybe. Gotta love the flat California central valley...

55/Rad

My commute is 20 miles with a gain of 1,042 feet, one way.

55/Rad

AppStateEvan

Where in NC do you live?

SSP

Including today's ride, here are some of my year-to-date numbers:

Total Mileage: 4017.12 miles
Total Elevation Gain: 239,055 feet

Average Ride Length: 34.63 miles
Average Elevation Gain per Ride: 2061 feet
Average Profile: 60 feet of climbing per mile
Average Rate of Climb: 937 feet per hour

And, yes, I really do like numbers!

Bauerthis

Today was 105 miles with 7363' of climbing. Time to go soak in the hot tub. Total climbing for this week is 26,139'.

SDRider

Depends on the ride. My ride today was about a zero elevation gain. Well, in all reality it was probably a couple hundred feet above sea level.

This is really just a great spin ride I like to do. I definitely need to incorporate more hills in my rides which I have been doing but today was not one of them.

'nother

Not too shabby. You're gonna be fine for the Montebello 10K! (you are still planning on doing it, right?!?!?!!).

TrekDen

Thank You, I wanted to say it, but coming from you, at least it might get some respect

SSC

10 miles with 881 feet of climbing elevation with 3% average grade.

SSP

Macka, Machka, Machka....I really respect your cycling accomplishments, and the advice you offer is nearly always spot-on.

But, in this instance, you're nit-picking and off topic. In the context of cycling "elevation gain" refers to the cumulative climbing one does during the course of a ride. Everyone understands that on loop rides the "net" elevation gained is zero, but that's irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

mooglinux

while overall elevation does not ushually gain much, i find that the climb i do is ushually zip, exept for going up and down curbs.

terrymorse 

On typical daily rides? Quite a range. A flat ride would be as little as 2000 feet. A hilly ride -- between 5000 and about 12,000, depending on how much time I have to ride.

Today's ride: 7600' over 4.5 hours, on Mount Hamilton (above San Jose, CA). My legs took a beating on the back side, but I still managed a fair-to-middling time.

724,000' year-to-date, quite a bit less than last year's rate.

But OC Roadie had us all beat today, as it was day 1 of the Everest Challenge. About 15,000' today, about 14,000' tomorrow. Wish I were there with him.

nnewton123

I'd say on my standard 30 mile route the gain is maybe 750 ft.

UmneyDurak

I think it's around 2k. Is there a program that could display elevations, if you give it a route?

SteveE

My daily commute is only about 500 feet over 11.5 miles. Downhill in the morning; uphill in the evening. On weekends it's typically 4-5K feet on a 45-55 mile ride.