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hippy
Did not know that when the garmin does that little ‘here’s your climb, it’s 2 miles long and 600 feet high, here’s a little picture of the various gradients in green, amber and red’ thing that it does, alongside the green, amber and red it also has a black gradient for ‘you are going to die now’. V fun discovering that at the point in the ride where I was like “cool I’ve done that massive steep bastard and now I’ve got a chance to recover so my legs stop trying to kill me”. Only 30 miles in all, but 3500ish feet of climbing and I was on my last legs on the way back in to town. All that kept me going was an intense craving for falafel.