Hill Climbs

Where did your brother do it?

Thanks I’ll have a look at those.

On a very short .3km 10%, urban road in Bournemouth. Annoyingly it seems a fairly good effort, the better the more I look at it, I’d say I’m the better climber and have a higher FTP but maybe his higher top power has helped.

I don't know if it makes it to 10%, but there's a short section of Northwall road in the Olympic park that's gradient-to-gradient with no flat bottom.

Where in bmth? 😁

This segment
https://strava.app.link/0e6xM1Vsr8

I’ll have a look thanks

That's @WornCleat territory. I think he may even be the local legend, now?

Looking at the Poole hill on Google maps, the Olympic park thing is nowhere steep enough.

I think 900m is a pretty strong effort.
Breaking down 1000m in an hour:

100m elevation every 6 minutes. (10 reps)
Assuming no stops and decent descending, 4.5 minutes climb, 1.5 minutes descent and turn. The steeper and quieter the climb, the shorter the downhill section.

Can’t do it on my phone but, will work our how many watts I need to climb fast enough, while going at a rate that I think I’ll be able to recover from in 1.5m.

Doable, but very hard.

Yeah this is making less and less sense to me.

I'm getting a great deal of schadenfreude from this conversation. The problem is the time loss descending and turning. I am a non-climber and have puked my way up the Alpe in under the hour, Pete Tadros was over 10 minutes faster, the altitude gain is 1139m. This was not recently and I was in decent form at the time. Clearly there is nothing around here to replicate the Alpe, but I would guess that something straight (for max descending speed), as long as possible and with a 10%ish gradient would be the best bet.

I'd look at Station Road, Woldingham - https://www.strava.com/segments/4643102 - as it gains just under 100 metres in 0.7 of a mile, can be done in 5 minutes repetitively (for me) and is a 2 minute descent.

Im half wondering if I go back to Bayleys Hill, obviously I know it pretty well I can get down it consistently in 1:30 gain 90m in 1km

Right, I’m going to see how much I can climb in an hour and how long it takes me to get to 1000m on Pepys Road, Telegraph Hill tomorrow Tuesday, as all other preferable options are too far for now.
If anyone would like to also indulge in this form of sadism let me know and we can sort a time.

If memory serves, that's the hill @veganjoseph chose to use for an everesting attempt 2-3 years ago.

Cool, did you know about this?

https://www.lfgss.com/events/1844/

Snap. More than four years ago, as it happens.

I knew he had done one of them but wasn’t sure which.
It’s not ideal but it’s a start and it’s quiet and wide to turn on

I knew as soon as I typed it that it was probably longer ago than that. Age does that too you, Oliver.

Same here. One reason why I looked it up was because I couldn't remember how long ago it was. Before 'Brexit'.

Whilst on Zoom further ponderings,
Could someone create a segment from Westwood Park exit on Canonbie to the highest point on Canonbie for me?

I’ve not ridden it in that direction but wondering if I can turn/ start in Westwood park and use the steepest part.

Such a segment already exists

Source: canonbie connoisseur

Could you share it? As it’s not coming up on my search thanks