What was your hilliest ride of the year?

borisface

One metric that I like to look at is the amount of feet climbed per mile. My top this year was 202 ft per mile any better?
http://app.strava.com/activities/94319660

dread_i1

Mine wasn't quite as impressive at 95.4;

http://www.strava.com/activities/79279339#

Noticed your only down the road from me, I'm in Basingstoke also. Small world.

Jon_1976

102 http://www.strava.com/activities/64551844

Strith

My hilliest ride of the year was also one of my shortest, out in Taiwan in June riding out from Chiayi to Alishan mountain and back.
According to RWGPS that works out around 245 ft/mi or 4200m in 90km, but I reckon that's quite a large overestimate.
Still one of the most painful rides I have ever done though, due mainly to the staircase like roads out there!

super_prestige

102 for me http://www.strava.com/activities/63842328

Rodders30

Mega Meon 100 mile sportive.

http://www.strava.com/activities/70397555

My first 100miles and many hills....it hurt.......

diplodicus

125 ft per mile for me http://www.strava.com/activities/72446408

dodgy

50 miles and 8900 feet (178 feet per mile). That was in the French Alps on a baking hot day in July.

Col de L'encrenaz
Col de Joux Verte
Col De Joux Plane (Morzine side)

It ruined me for about 2 days!

davep1

I did the Legs of Steel in October, just under 100 foot/mile if I am doing the sums right!

http://www.strava.com/activities/87004993

littledove44

Just under 100, but that was from my house.

b4ssy

Tour of Wessex 25,000 feet 335 miles over 3 days

TakeTurns

Yay another willy waving thread.
Being from London, unless I do hill reps of going up and down I'll never get a proper hilly ride in.

So my hilliest was the 160mile ride the other day which topped at 7100ft climbing. Which is something around 50ft/m
http://www.strava.com/activities/102678051

matudavey

202 ft/mile, baking hot day in August in the Alps. (96 km 3700 m) hopefully my maths is correct!?
Col du Encrenez
Col de la Ramaz
Col de Jambaz
Col de la Grande Taillet

Irreparable puncture on Encrenez descent, furthest point from our van with no shops in 20km.
Had to leave my friend in a bar for 3 hours, borrowed his wheel and rode back, to then drive back to pick him up.
Nightmare!

Strith

TakeTurns wrote:

Yay another willy waving thread.
Being from London, unless I do hill reps of going up and down I'll never get a proper hilly ride in.

So my hilliest was the 160mile ride the other day which topped at 7100ft climbing. Which is something around 50ft/m
http://www.strava.com/activities/102678051

You can easily top that around London if you want though, I did the same amount of climbing in 100km less on the hell of the ashdown.
I know what you mean though, it can be a bit dull around the SE.

diy

11,512 over 98.9 miles
http://www.strava.com/activities/68618723#1325642710

probably got something better than 117ft, did the legs of steel and the devil in the downs also.

But surely its the most climbed on a single day or night ride?

Otherwise we can count things like cob lane? which is 475ft per mile. (190ft 0.4 miles)

borisface

dread_i1 wrote:

Mine wasn't quite as impressive at 95.4;

http://www.strava.com/activities/79279339#

Noticed your only down the road from me, I'm in Basingstoke also. Small world.

I live in Portugal but have been back in the UK staying with the in-laws in Oakley for a few weeks - been out with the NHRC a couple of times on their clubruns. Nice bunch.

roger_merriman

Taking my folks dog for a walk gave the most impressive ratio at 154 ft per mile. Though it was a easy roll with only one hill, land is steep and hilly there but we gained height gently since my roadie is a SS.

Returning to my folks place from the local town is 135ft per mile and is actually hard work with steep ramps etc.

To be honest the ratio doesn't fit well to effort for my rides at least.

dread_i1

borisface wrote:

dread_i1 wrote:

Mine wasn't quite as impressive at 95.4;

http://www.strava.com/activities/79279339#

Noticed your only down the road from me, I'm in Basingstoke also. Small world.

I live in Portugal but have been back in the UK staying with the in-laws in Oakley for a few weeks - been out with the NHRC a couple of times on their clubruns. Nice bunch.

Nice, hope you've been enjoying the weather!

I've been riding with CCB for the past couple of months, we'll be out Sunday if your still around.

rolf_f

diy wrote:

11,512 over 98.9 miles
http://www.strava.com/activities/68618723#1325642710

probably got something better than 117ft, did the legs of steel and the devil in the downs also.

But surely its the most climbed on a single day or night ride?

Otherwise we can count things like cob lane? which is 475ft per mile. (190ft 0.4 miles)

Indeed. I lost the return half of my GPS when I rode from Samoens to Columbiere via Col du Romme. That adds up to 236 feet per mile over 29 miles. I didn't go back via Romme so if I counted the return trip I'd get a less impressive statistic despite the longer ride!

Biggest climb was 3243 feet of Joux Plane but I don't think I've even beaten 10,000 feet on a single day this year.

Initialised

100 miles and 10000ft of Pennine: http://app.strava.com/activities/85827824
Plus 1700ft on the way there: http://app.strava.com/activities/85644939

So over 12000 ft in a day but only around 100ft/mile

casatikid

Without a doubt,riding in the King of the Pennines sportive in September.Hilly from the start of the 100 miles.