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He just climbs up and down the same thing though, which isn't the same as AAA where you can't repeat climbs. I have no interest in everesting type stuff where you just do the same climb over and over. Also, 93kg bro, come at me. Who's lifting the most weight into space... :D
What time period is that 1 million over? (now I want to look at my historic data)
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I got the idea he was doing it this year but I didn't read the details, it just sounded too mental.
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He just climbs up and down the same thing though, which isn't the same as AAA where you can't repeat climbs. I have no interest in everesting type stuff where you just do the same climb over and over.
A few years ago I remember someone (not the eventual trophy recipient) doing a DIYxGPS 200 ride (for AAA points) and repeating certain hills several times to boost the climbing figure.
The route they had specified (with no repeats) was at least 200km, but the AAA points were determined from the resulting GPX file (and cross-checked against a proper DEM, it wouldn't just take the GPX file elevations as gospel) so it was possible to repeat various hills as part of your route and get more climbing from this.
The discussion of this (over at yacf) caused the usual stir as some saw it as perfectly fine but many saw it as (ab)using a loophole. Not sure if they've tightened this up now.
Many years ago I'd worked out it would be possible to get the climbing record without much audacity (in relative terms) by just riding a series of hilly DIY 50km rides each week. This was back when the record t was ~150 AAA points and so you could aim to get 3 AAA per week which could be done in as "little" as 4 x 50km rides with 750m climbing in each (for 0.75AAA each), which is possible in places like the Surrey Hills. The 50km rides also have the benefit of having really relaxed speed limits, so you can have a leisurely 5h to do them.
That's a lot easier than slogging around something like the BCM/Pendle/etc (especially on fixed).
frank9755
Greenbank
EDIT - sorry was meant to be a reply to @hippy posting the AAA board!
Pretty good. That puts you in second place for climbing amongst the Aussies I know who did TCR in 2016.
Jack Thompson doing a crazy one: