100 ft per mile a "good" climb?
06-07-18, 09:44 AM
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whatap guyy. i'm training for thisbike ride..170 miles over two days from boston to the cape...the cape i heard is pretty hilly from other riders. theres a good hill near me ive been training on for the past year..its 4 miles to the top..with 420 feet of climbing along the way....is this a "good size climb" i should be expecting on my ride this summer?
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(This is a 9 year old thread...)
But 100 feet per mile for a whole ride includes both the uphills and the downhills. So it's effectively 200 feet per mile uphill, 3.8%. And most 100 feet per mile rides have some flatter sections, so the hill parts are even steeper.
But 100 feet per mile for a whole ride includes both the uphills and the downhills. So it's effectively 200 feet per mile uphill, 3.8%. And most 100 feet per mile rides have some flatter sections, so the hill parts are even steeper.
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Mt. Hamilton East side Out 'n back barely 84'/mile
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I did this ride years ago - I think the OP Is talking about rolling terrain (road going over dunes?) on the way to P'town. It's up and down certainly, and can take it out of you at the end of 170 miles, but there's not really any protracted climbing
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100'/mile is a common gauge of decidedly "hilly" or climb-filled circuits and out-and-back rides. However, an extended, one-way 100'/mile climb is not particularly significant, and it's not particularly valuable for training for riding on rolling terrain where one encounters much steeper inclines on an intermittent basis. I don't know, but long, gradual inclines seem more valuable for training for endurance.
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The hill literally right out my front door is 3000 ft over 6 miles. So that's like 500 ft a mile average. Ouch!
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How's this for ouch - I was hiking the other day with a 20kg pack, absolutely buggered after four nights with no sleep and days full of busting my arse, and there was a section of the topo map where we covered 200m and climbed 200m...
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