Bike Forums - Elevation ... is this a lot?

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Originally Posted by mattm (Post 8705682)

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.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/...de78a81aab.jpg