Cornwall Hill training - 0.2miles and i'm knackered!

Cornish-J
Cornish-J Posts: 978
edited September 2010 in Training, fitness and health
This is a hard Climb!

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/50394660

I invite anyone from around my area to come and have a crack at it, be interested to see some other peoples times.

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  • wastrel
    wastrel Posts: 55
    Nice idea J,
    I'm not quite sure where you're declaring the end of the climb....but anyway, track stand at bottom line then white 'motorbike hill climb' finish line 3:56 or Cattle grid 5:08.
    It's a private road so I've always thought it'd make a good bunch start hill climb venue - if such a thing exists.
  • Cornish-J
    Cornish-J Posts: 978
    I stopped the clock at the start of the top layby on the right (before the top cattle grid).
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    If I remember I'll give it a go when I'm on holiday next year...
  • tomsmithy
    tomsmithy Posts: 15
    Did it on my MTB a while ago and had to stop for a breather half way, I wonder what the grade of it is!

    Gonna give it another go soon now I've got my snazzy new road bike.
  • Cornish-J
    Cornish-J Posts: 978
    If you go out that way let me know, i wouldnt mind giving it another crack too!
  • tomsmithy
    tomsmithy Posts: 15
    Did it today on the mountain bike (in the horrible rain) and it felt a lot better than before.

    When I got back I looked at the same part of the map you did and got rid of the other bits so it pretty much matched yours.

    stats are:

    Distance: 871m
    Elevation gain: 106m
    Max slope: 24.1%
    Average slope: 12.8%
    Time: 6min 11 seconds

    Will give you a shout when I take my road bike out on it, didn't want it getting all wet, muddy and gritty like I was at the end of the ride.
  • Cornish-J
    Cornish-J Posts: 978
    good time! what device gave you the max/average slope stats out of interest?
  • tomsmithy
    tomsmithy Posts: 15
    Ive got a HTC Legend android phone.

    Tried a few apps but I use MyTracks which is made by google. As well as syncing with google maps it gives you a gpx file that you can view and see all the stats on google earth.

    Best thing, its all free (apart from the phone contract!)
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,547
    There's something wrong with the initial Garmin data (unless my maths are up the spout or I'm reading it wrong which is more likely!). The data shows a length of 0.17 miles (roughly 897 feet or 273.5m) and a height gain of 354 feet / 108m which would make the average gradient of the climb about 39% / 1:2.5 :shock:

    Looks a nice climb though and certainly pretty steep!

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