Average Climbs on your rides

squigs

Hi,
Just wondering what your average climbs are like?

Im in Cornwall and for every 10 miles I average 1000ft of climbing. No matter which way I go out of my House there is no flat. Not complaining just wondering what you have to put up with.

bobtbuilder

I try and average 100ft of climbing per mile over most of my rides.

I am lucky that 3 directions from my house are hilly, and 1 is pan-falt (after 10 miles to get there) so I use this for recovery days when needed.

Secteur

I have similar - around 2500 ft for my typical 25mile route

Dmak

700 feet for my last 25 mile ride, pretty smooth really. If I'm feeling mad for it can do 1500ft in 20 miles playing on the local beacon hill.

-steves-

I ride in Cmabridge and Peterborough and I am lucky to get a bridge with 50ft of climb :oops:I can head out on the open roads, there I might see the odd humped back bridge with another 3 or 4 ft of climb :oops: You lot are just very lucky 8)

bompington

473m in 30km for my commute, and that's the most practical route (shortest and flattest is a hairy dual carriageway), works out as 834 cubits per hundred furlongs or 827 feet per 10 miles if you insist.

I've always been impressed at how very little flat land there is in the far southwest.

Velonutter

Typical 50 Mile ride has 2500-3500ft of climbing, I'm lucky I can choose hilly or pan flat routes.

Jersey Boy

I average approx 500 ft per 10 miles unless I am doing specific hill work in which case it is just straight up and straight down multiple times.

The amount of hill work depends on what area of your cycling you are trying to improve. As I am 230 lbs this is an area I have to focus on more than flat as it is where I have the most disadvantage over most riders. I am also trying to switch from grinding out big gears to spinning small gears with higher cadence.

Commuter Bike: Specialised Sirrus Hybrid 2010
Training/Comp Bike: Giant TCR Advanced 2011
Winter Trainer: Considering options.................

nickel

Try to go for 1000ft over 10 miles when im at home in somerset, im lucky cause where I live I can either head north/south into the exmoor or the blackdowns respectively or head east/west and follow the vale floor for a pan flat ride. At uni in leicester there's bugger all hills, which is annoying as I weigh 63kg and have bugger all power on the flat so I have to make my climbing count.

Brushiemma10w

I live in Suffolk..........whats a climb?

meanredspider

2000ft on my 30-mile RT commute. Planning on adding another 100ft tonight though it starts to get hard on the 5th day - especially with these winds (currently 28mph)

FoldingJoe

Where about in Cornwall are you, Squigs?

rjh299

I did 86 miles on Sunday with just over 8000ft of climbing, some proper steep ones in there aswell. Would hate to live somewhere flat so should be grateful really.

squigs

FoldingJoe wrote:

Where about in Cornwall are you, Squigs?

Saltash

buy_my_cookies

very flat around here, biggest hills i have are tiny little bridges over rivers (more like bumps in the road)

sportypal says i have 125ft climb for 14miles on my commute, and its just the same in any direction I go.

andrewjoseph

a quick hour road blast 37 km ride with 380m climbing

a quick hour (and a bit) mtb blast 18km 370m climbing

mini 'dragon' 75km and 1280m climbing

local mtb 'epic' 47km and 1700m climbing

I live near afan argoed mtb centre and not far from the start of the dragon sportive. The steepest road climb around here is 1.5km at avg 15% with short ramps nearly 18%. I haven't done that in a while though.

Mark Alexander

andrewjoseph wrote:

a quick hour road blast 37 km ride with 380m climbing

a quick hour (and a bit) mtb blast 18km 370m climbing

mini 'dragon' 75km and 1280m climbing

local mtb 'epic' 47km and 1700m climbing

I live near afan argoed mtb centre and not far from the start of the dragon sportive. The steepest road climb around here is 1.5km at avg 15% with short ramps nearly 18%. I haven't done that in a while though.

How about the 9 miles to the Bwlch from Pontrhydyfen and the 2500ft of climbing?

andrewjoseph

Mark Alexander wrote:

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How about the 9 miles to the Bwlch from Pontrhydyfen and the 2500ft of climbing?

I don't go that way.

I'm starting from maesteg, go up to croeserw, cymmer, bwllch, tonypandy, righos climb, neath valley, cimla climb (this is a bugger), pontryhdyfen, then either left back up through cymmer or right towards ynysygwas then bryn to maesteg.

Butterd2

4600ft of climbing over 71 miles last Sunday through Kent. 4 proper climbs of >400ft and then lots of little ups and downs.

Avezius

-steves- wrote:

I ride in Cmabridge and Peterborough and I am lucky to get a bridge with 50ft of climb :oops:I can head out on the open roads, there I might see the odd humped back bridge with another 3 or 4 ft of climb :oops: You lot are just very lucky 8)

Yup! 30ft of climbing for 12miles. ( and some of those feet are probably just Garmin inaccuracies!!!)

kingrollo

Where do you get these stats from.

When I upload my garmin data it tells me that on my 25 mile loop - I have ascended 1702 ft and Descended 1702 ft -

Would you say over 25 miles this qualifies as hilly/flat/moderate ?

Average speed around 16mph.

squigs

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/82241093

Lycra Man

I live in the Vale of Aylesbury which is flat, but close to the Chilterns, which isn't.

Depending on my mood, I chose weekend routes that include some or lots of hills on my longer rides. No altitude statistics I can quoite, tho.

Lycra Man

andrewjoseph

kingrollo wrote:

Where do you get these stats from.

my garmin 705 plugged into 'Ascent' mac exercise logging software. It calculates calorie consumption better than the garmin does too. At least, it is more consistent than the garmin calorie data.

-steves-

Avezius wrote:

-steves- wrote:

I ride in Cmabridge and Peterborough and I am lucky to get a bridge with 50ft of climb :oops:I can head out on the open roads, there I might see the odd humped back bridge with another 3 or 4 ft of climb :oops: You lot are just very lucky 8)

Yup! 30ft of climbing for 12miles. ( and some of those feet are probably just Garmin inaccuracies!!!)

Some people just don't know how lucky they are to have hills around them :evil: :roll:

bompington

Avezius wrote:

Yup! 30ft of climbing for 12miles. ( and some of those feet are probably just Garmin inaccuracies!!!)

I went for a short spin along the polders in Holland (Flevoland for those familiar with it)on holiday a couple of years ago, it had something like 100m of ascent according to my GPS...

andrewjoseph

Some times my garmin can play silly buggers, for some reason on a recent ride, I was climbing an 8% hill and it told me it was -18%, but most of the time it tallies with info from bikehike and my anquet mapping software.

springtide9

<joke>

You guys need to man up a bit...

http://connect.garmin.com:80/activity/embed/86626202

I don't think the 705 really liked having the assent in metric and the distance in miles lol
I guess they didn't call the Bath100 - the Bath100 because it was 188 miles

(as someone mentioned about some strange happenings with the Garmins)

</joke>

stifflersmom

1000ft for every 10 miles is what I'd expect here in the Peak District - there is a bit of scope for reducing this by careful route selection but that would be limiting and dull. There is more opportunity to increase the climbing by linking up the hills. I live in Sheffield city centre so everywhere in the Peaks is up rom where I am. I could ride east to Lincolnshire but its a bit flat.

pilot_pete

Just like Stifflersmom above, but I am the other side of the Peaks....Cheshire Plain to the West and the Peak District 5 miles to the East.

I tend to go East on just about every ride as I am really getting into improving my climbing, so can easily do 1000' for every 10 miles and usually do. If I'm not feeling great I may go for a spin to the West.

If you take the prevailing wind into account it can make getting back home from the hills a real 'uphill struggle' - I went to Bakewell last month on a 70 odd mile ride and coming back into a 30mph wind was HARD!

I think the most I have done was in the Algarve last November - 350 miles in 7 days with total 20,000' of climbing. Having said that we did 9000' on one ride of 65 miles, I don't recall there being ANY flat bit of road that day!!!!

PP