Elevation gain in one month
04-05-07 | 12:03 PM
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I'm using a Blackburn Delphi 6.0. It's barometric and allows you to zero a 'home' altitude before leaving to help accuracy. It's very conservative as well. The sampling rate is every 20 seconds which seams to result in better results when zipping down hills as opposed to crawling up (it gives altitude, % grade, and total climbing). Raw altitude measurements at fixed points seem to be good based on Google Earth. Still new to this one though.
04-05-07 | 12:22 PM
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I get close to 40' EVERY DAY that I go riding. That makes... 40 so far for April! Go me! I might get 800 this month!
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04-05-07 | 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by terrymorse
Polar 720i, which has a barometric altimeter. As altimeter computers go, it's pretty accurate. If anything, it underreports cumulative altitude by up to 5% on big climbs.
I'm having good luck with toporoute.com but I'd love real time feedback... all my rides are climbing-heavy.
I just posted this today. Anybody care to chime in?
https://www.bikeforums.net/training-nutrition/284930-hills-substitute-mileage.html
04-05-07 | 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by blue_nose
95k in March. Lot's of climbing in prep for the King of the Mountain Centuries in California.
The original Nail Eater thread:
https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ght=nail+eater
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04-05-07 | 08:10 PM
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I did about 35-40k in March and I'm tired. Don't know if I'll have enough left for MC. Maybe this is what they mean by overtraining. It would be nice to see a lot of BF riders there, though.
04-05-07 | 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by terrymorse
If it was 10k feet in 50 miles, that's an amazing 200 ft/mile. I've never been able to put together a route with more than about 150 ft/mile.
Assuming you start and finish at the same place, the average grade would have to be about 8%. It's hard to build a route with that much grade over several miles.
Assuming you start and finish at the same place, the average grade would have to be about 8%. It's hard to build a route with that much grade over several miles.
04-05-07 | 09:57 PM
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TerryMorse and others. To look at the Nifty 1050 route see: www.srcc.com and select the April Alpina button for a profile of the route.
Closer to 55 miles actually, the picture names all the major climbs.
Closer to 55 miles actually, the picture names all the major climbs.
04-05-07 | 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by big john
Ken can tell you about the Mountaingate Century, 35k feet in 100 miles. I don't know if anyone finished it, maybe Steve Born.
04-05-07 | 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by terrymorse
I did only 55,000 last month, but I plan to double that amount in April.
Climbing season has begun!
In 2004, when I did 1.2 million feet, I logged 108,000 in April. Only 98,000 in 2005, and a paltry 52,000 in 2006.
Climbing season has begun!
In 2004, when I did 1.2 million feet, I logged 108,000 in April. Only 98,000 in 2005, and a paltry 52,000 in 2006.
04-05-07 | 11:46 PM
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I am in a similar situation- could easily get in 15 -20,000 ft just commuting to and from work (depending on the route)-- and that doesn't begin to count real rides. The thing is, we measure it is meters, so it doesn't seem so dramatic.
Originally Posted by patentcad
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.
04-06-07 | 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by donrhummy
This means nothing. I can climb 100 10-foot high hills and get 1000 feet of climbing but it's nto equal to one 1000-foot climb. Of course, when the numbers are as high as Morse's (i.e. 1.2 million) it's impressive even if they were all 10 feet tall.
You ought to see his rims.
