Is this a hilly ride?

over-the-hill
over-the-hill Posts: 144
edited May 2008 in Workshop
I'm still new to this sort of data.

Would this be considered quite a a lot of climbing in the distance? Or an average amount?

17 miles 1329 ft ascent, 1335 descent.
One section was 8.84 miles, 702 ft ascent, 761 descent
Average speed 15.3 mph.

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  • synchronicity
    synchronicity Posts: 1,415
    It'd help (me) if you converted that to metric, but it certainly doesn't sound flat. :wink:
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  • willbevan
    willbevan Posts: 1,241
    I would say thats hilly!, most of my evening club runs are around that distance , well 15-20 mi, and are 1200-1800ft elevation and they are not flat thats for sure! Not mountains, but definetly hills :)
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Thats very hilly, well up to my current standard it is :p.

    Yesterday I did 80 miles, some drags, some sloped, one hill, higher than I thought, could see for miles and ould see the powerstations in the distance, was about 700ft I'd say and that was enough for me, was only going 10mph up it.
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    No not hilly - rolling maybe - our evening time trial course is about as hilly as that and we call ilt a sporting course with a second course we use for the hilly events.
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  • John C.
    John C. Posts: 2,113
    All I can say is that is the type of hill riding I do in preperation for hilly sportives, may be I do a few more miles and your speed is about the same as mine.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Is been thinner better for hills? Yesterday on my ride I was going up this sort of hilly bit, in my group there was this 16yr old on a Giant SCR2.0 and he got about a mile in front of me and had to stop and wait, 2 people in my group were about 3 mins behind me, he was really thin like, about 7.5 stone but I could see especially on the legs he did not look like he had as much muscle on as I do, I weigh in at 12-13.5 stone and was on a Carrera Vanquish. I was extreamly surprised how far he got, I never thought he'd be able to beat me by that much :oops:
  • aracer
    aracer Posts: 1,649
    willhub wrote:
    Is been thinner better for hills?
    Yes!
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    aracer wrote:
    willhub wrote:
    Is been thinner better for hills?
    Yes!
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    That looks awfull!
  • over-the-hill
    over-the-hill Posts: 144
    Just done 24.2 miles/1998ft. Going out was 12.5 miles/1132 ft. It was hard work, I was only managing 6 mph some of the time. Just out of interest what kind of figures are achieved by amateurs in the Alps?

    What's the name of that thin cyclist? Is he the guy that was kicked out the TdeF last year when he had almost won it?
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    over-the-hill wrote:
    What's the name of that thin cyclist? Is he the guy that was kicked out the TdeF last year when he had almost won it?

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  • Mettan
    Mettan Posts: 2,103
    over-the-hill wrote:
    I'm still new to this sort of data.

    Would this be considered quite a a lot of climbing in the distance? Or an average amount?

    17 miles 1329 ft ascent, 1335 descent.
    One section was 8.84 miles, 702 ft ascent, 761 descent
    Average speed 15.3 mph.

    Yes, that's hilly - it's similar to the kind of training I'm doing at the moment for an upcoming event -although, I typically do shorter rides and usually get in anywhere between 350 ft to 750 ft per session.
  • feel
    feel Posts: 800
    willhub wrote:
    Is been thinner better for hills? Yesterday on my ride I was going up this sort of hilly bit, in my group there was this 16yr old on a Giant SCR2.0 and he got about a mile in front of me and had to stop and wait, 2 people in my group were about 3 mins behind me, he was really thin like, about 7.5 stone but I could see especially on the legs he did not look like he had as much muscle on as I do, I weigh in at 12-13.5 stone and was on a Carrera Vanquish. I was extreamly surprised how far he got, I never thought he'd be able to beat me by that much :oops:

    I'm disappointed in you willhub i thought you were going to be a future tour rider and i was going to be able say i knew him when he was starting out :wink: Next time you hang onto him and how about a bit of a diet :lol:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    feel wrote:
    willhub wrote:
    Is been thinner better for hills? Yesterday on my ride I was going up this sort of hilly bit, in my group there was this 16yr old on a Giant SCR2.0 and he got about a mile in front of me and had to stop and wait, 2 people in my group were about 3 mins behind me, he was really thin like, about 7.5 stone but I could see especially on the legs he did not look like he had as much muscle on as I do, I weigh in at 12-13.5 stone and was on a Carrera Vanquish. I was extreamly surprised how far he got, I never thought he'd be able to beat me by that much :oops:

    I'm disappointed in you willhub i thought you were going to be a future tour rider and i was going to be able say i knew him when he was starting out :wink: Next time you hang onto him and how about a bit of a diet :lol:

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  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    getting back to the start. i don't know about being hilly but you appear to have been dead beat at the end, being 6' below where you started. or is it just me?
  • sicrow
    sicrow Posts: 791
    plowmar wrote:
    getting back to the start. i don't know about being hilly but you appear to have been dead beat at the end, being 6' below where you started. or is it just me?

    LOL :wink:
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  • shmo
    shmo Posts: 321
    Got round to doing a ride someone posted on bikely.com near me which had 1925ft of climbing over 17.5miles according to the elevation profile. Don't know how accurate that is but it certainly felt pretty hilly. The words "nah I don't need a compact" and "can you change that 11-28 for a 12-25" were coming back to haunt me as I tried to make the flat bit of road half way up the biggest hill last for as long as possible (all 5 metres of it).

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