Hilly or not?

badly_dubbed

Would you class 8400ft (2560m) of climbing over 75 miles hilly?

Just a general question as I'm back on my training but not sure if that's what others class as a hilly run?

Petenat

That's like climbing up the Galibier of course its hilly

gloomyandy

Depends, if it was 75 miles of 100ft up followed by 100ft down, then probably not (that would be undulating), but if the climbing came in a few big lumps then most definitely!

badly_dubbed

4 pretty decent climbs on that particular loop

Wasn't really site if it was considered hilly enough but question answered

Bordersroadie

There's some general agreement that 100ft or more of elevation gain per mile is a hilly ride. So yes, hilly.

bobtbuilder

Bordersroadie wrote:

There's some general agreement that 100ft or more of elevation gain per mile is a hilly ride. So yes, hilly.

^ This.

random man

Sounds hilly to me.

rick_chasey

Show off.

Gizmo_

Bordersroadie wrote:

There's some general agreement that 100ft or more of elevation gain per mile is a hilly ride. So yes, hilly.

That makes me feel a bit better. I did 52 miles on the weekend with 500m of climbing and it half killed me. 1500ft sounds much better.

drlodge

Bordersroadie wrote:

There's some general agreement that 100ft or more of elevation gain per mile is a hilly ride. So yes, hilly.

That sounds about right to me, so a 1000m elevation gain for a 33 mile ride. That would be quite hilly.

Grill

Rick Chasey wrote:

Show off.

This.

Secteur

Well done!

I did 65 miles today, with 1800m climbing, and I thought that was good!!

bigpikle

no - 4200m over 130km is hilly....

;-)

charlie_potatoes

badly_dubbed wrote:

Would you class 8400ft (2560m) of climbing over 75 miles hilly?

Nope.

Mountainous :shock:

marcusjb

Under 1% (1000m per 100km) = flat
Between 1 and 1.25% (1250m per 100km) = rolling
Between 1.25 and 1.5% (1500m per 100km) = lumpy
Between 1.5 and 2% (2000m per 100km) = hilly
Over 2% = approach with caution

The 100ft per mile is about 1.8%, so I'd say that's hilly for sure.

I'd call 2560m over 120km (from original question) a hilly ride for sure - over 2% - where was that?

As has been mentioned above, there are different ways of making up that ascent - constant up and down hills or a handful of larger climbs. I personally find the rolling up and down hills far more tiring - anything along coastlines etc. can become very hard work as the day goes on, especially when compared to a couple of larger climbs when you can focus your effort and recover much more easily.

@bigpikle 4200m over 130km is very hilly - where's that?

bigpikle

the Maratona - tough day in July at 35 degrees as well

badly_dubbed

marcusjb wrote:

Under 1% (1000m per 100km) = flat
Between 1 and 1.25% (1250m per 100km) = rolling
Between 1.25 and 1.5% (1500m per 1000km) = lumpy
Between 1.5 and 2% (2000m per 100km) = hilly
Over 2% = approach with caution

The 100ft per mile is about 1.8%, so I'd say that's hilly for sure.

I'd call 2560m over 120km (from original question) a hilly ride for sure - over 2% - where was that?

As has been mentioned above, there are different ways of making up that ascent - constant up and down hills or a handful of larger climbs. I personally find the rolling up and down hills far more tiring - anything along coastlines etc. can become very hard work as the day goes on, especially when compared to a couple of larger climbs when you can focus your effort and recover much more easily.

@bigpikle 4200m over 130km is very hilly - where's that?

Fife and branching into Perth and Kinross.

Glentarkie, dunning glen, glenfarg, dron, Kinross, Newburgh and surrounding areas

bigpikle

sounds a rather nice ride out!

marcusjb

badly_dubbed wrote:

marcusjb wrote:

Under 1% (1000m per 100km) = flat
Between 1 and 1.25% (1250m per 100km) = rolling
Between 1.25 and 1.5% (1500m per 1000km) = lumpy
Between 1.5 and 2% (2000m per 100km) = hilly
Over 2% = approach with caution

The 100ft per mile is about 1.8%, so I'd say that's hilly for sure.

I'd call 2560m over 120km (from original question) a hilly ride for sure - over 2% - where was that?

As has been mentioned above, there are different ways of making up that ascent - constant up and down hills or a handful of larger climbs. I personally find the rolling up and down hills far more tiring - anything along coastlines etc. can become very hard work as the day goes on, especially when compared to a couple of larger climbs when you can focus your effort and recover much more easily.

@bigpikle 4200m over 130km is very hilly - where's that?

Fife and branching into Perth and Kinross.

Glentarkie, dunning glen, glenfarg, dron, Kinross, Newburgh and surrounding areas

Certainly hilly that way - 1st day of the recent Mille Alba 1000km event took us around that way - Edinburgh, Aberargie, Forfar, Banchory, Braemar, Perth, Edinburgh - it was a pretty hilly day, Cairn O'Mount and Glenshee.

You live in beautiful cycling country!