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It annoys me when segments are too short as they won't be listed as KOMs if the segment didn't exist when you did the ride.

Big KOMClub loophole if they changed that though.

Did'nt realise that.

The second repeat I did of the Climb saw me faced With a Close gate across the narrow road. Exactly where the original segment ends. So I was basically unlucky that a farmer had left the gate open just as I was passing on my first attempt.

Yeah, thats why they're faster than me. Not because of the Byron burger and onion rings I had for lunch.

Pretty cool calculator for the obsessive climbers:

http://everesting.io/

And this makes rides look interesting, though I haven't investigated it properly yet:

http://www.mesmeride.com/

I enjoy exploring London and use Jonathan O'Keeffe's site all the time, so my favourite visualisation thing using Strava data:

1. Get a heat map with http://www.jonathanokeeffe.com/strava/map.php
   Up the opaque, pixel size as you wish, leave colour on heatmap
   
2. Copy this: jQuery("#map_canvas").css("background-color", "black").find("img").hide()
   
3. Full screen in your heatmap, hit Shift + Ctrl + j
   then Shift + Ctrl + v
   
4. Enter, and voilà
   
   

One I made earlier

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The whole everesting thing scares me. Its exactly the sort of meaningless thing. That suddenly becomes uber important in my head.

If im honest its mainly because im old, and would rather grind out a massive endurance effort. Than do proper high intensity climbing intervals.

This is also why i am slow.

That looks ace!

And I'm guessing you have plenty of epic climbs in your area to tempt you!

I just put a tough (for me) local segment in the calculator and the results instantly told me that I.would.have.no.chance.mate.

The best would be dalsnibbe in geiranger. It climbs 1500m. Gradients are resonable, so easy to control power. Plus it starts at sea level, so you get less altitude issues.

The calc says....

Everesting dalsnibbe.

Climb speed = 14kph
Climb power = 240w
Descent speed = 45kph
Total climbs = 6
Total ride time = 12:15

The descent is doable quicker. But you dont really gain anything doing that. From that id be tempted to try. The bit if data that really exposes the difficulty is 8500Cals. Which isnt far off what i burnt over 21 hours during an uber sportive. Processing that many Cals in 12 hours? Feck.

My mate wants to 'Everest' Mont Ventoux. We did the Club des Cingles last year which was pretty tough, doing it 6 times would be a bit bonkers. Doable, but bonkers.

While i was in france, i did a big all day solo ride that ended at 4700m of ascent.

I was picked up at the top of croix de fer in an absolute state. Shaking all over from the bonk, and so dizzy, i rode off the road several times during the last 1km.

Doing that twice in a day does sound bonkers.

Bodyfat. 8500 cals isn't that much.

You'd be fine.

He's big boned.

I certainly have 8500 Cals of body fat.

'fine' still feels like an optimistic description though....

I think the most I've climbed in a day is around 5500 metres. I'm glad I didn't have to do another 3400.

Depends how fast he can metabolise fat and deal with the byproducts.

I've done about 6500 m of climbing non-stop (27 hours) on south downs way double. That was hard, off-road, and steep, a lot. I wasn't too bad at the end, could have carried on riding, but it probably wouldn't have been wise, as I was drifting off to sleep on steady climbs.

Hmm, probably 6000m climbing in a single 24 hour block is my best, but that's part of a longer ride that included some flat bits.

8026m is my best in a single ride (according to Strava) but that was 31h riding time and 39.5h elapsed and I cheated and had a 45 minute nap part way round. Strava says 15,471kcal for that, weighted avg power of 155W. I'm slow but I've got endurance.

LEL almost certainly exceeded 10,000m climb but I was using an old Garmin eTrex H and recording points not very often (to fit the ride in its tiny memory) so Strava smooths a lot of it out (it only gives me 6350m climbing). 1428km in 115h and a metric fuckload of kcal.

On fixed, apart from LEL, I've done 4800m in 20h (320km) and ~8000m in 40h. Wales is lovely.

I'd love a bash at a double Club des Cingles at some point, might have to build that in to a future summer family holiday.

I think there is a special award for a double Cingles (legend of Ventoux or some such bollocks) but you have to ascend each side twice. To Everest something I believe you have to climb the same side for every ascent.

I see. So the equivalent of running a marathon with ~106 laps of a 400m running track. Fuck that.

Ha. Some idiot did it with Broomfield Hill in Richmond Park. 296 reps.

http://veloviewer.com/everesting/282552246

I know.

Hmmmm. 78 reps of the mountain in town.
Ive done 10 repeats for training. I could definitely manage another dozen or so if i kept it under sweetspot. But i cant say it appeals to attempt 78.

My 4700 day, was in the middle of a 21,000m cycling holiday week. I was always going to crack at some point.

I almost cracked on the way up col 3 of 5 in last year's Alpenbrevet. if my cheerful and always postive minded riding mates hadn't talked me out of it I'd have taken the train at Andermatt!

I don't think Everesting is my thing. It would take over 63 laps of the highest 'mountain' in NL. I'll just keep pedaling against the wind