Everesting

https://veloviewer.com/segment/626346

Don't we all!

Yeah, given I read Morton’s 7 hour average was something like ~250w Think it’s safe to say thats a little beyond me :-)
I could do steeper if I set up 11-36, not sure if that’s in the spirit of it though!?
Yeah that’s pretty much my thoughts. Maybe I’ll have a look around for something suitable or just try a high number of reps see how I feel about it first.

The power output's the easy bit, it's dropping the 30kg and maintaining it that I'm gonna struggle with :P

in the spirit of it

In what of the what? You can climb anything you want, in whatever gear you want. Some people have done crazy long ones of very shallow hills, some people have done super steep.
It's simple - one ride, one hill, up and down it until you crack the 8848m mark.

Good luck @GoatandTricycle

I remember @veganjoseph did Kop Hill (and did a video of it which was a good insight).
Once up that is usually enough for me. In fact it is usually too much!

I’m not exactly a lightweight at 75kgs ish.
I didn’t know if it was on a normal “road bike” ideal kinda thing.
I’d probably want something between 6-10-%. If anyone has any recommendations to investigate I’d be interested to hear.

Yeah seen @veganjoseph’s stuff and @hazzelfrazzel has experience too.

Also met (although didn’t know it at the time) uk female record holder on Wander Wye. She came out to tow her friend home to Bristol I think, which of you recall the weather post 10pm was a bit nuts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNp7fKZUjBo

I would look for something at the gentler end of that so, in your part of the world, I'd have thought that Toys Hill from the north would be a reasonable bet. Pretty straight and fairly even gradient.

Yeah, Hosey was in my mind

Too much traffic at the bottom, and the manholes on the descent mean you can never relax.

I presume you’ve seen this;

everesting.cc/app/lap-calculator

Toys from Brasted would need 61 ascents. Hosey Hill would require 116.

Fair enough, I’ve only ridden up it once early Sunday was very quiet.
Yeah saw the calculator but don’t know segments through the app.
I’ll need to do som research

It’s a nice climb but it’s nowhere near as high as Toys, and there is a fair bit of traffic there as it’s the main access route to Chartwell.

Also guessing Toys has been done, that’s not that significant to me but a consideration.

You can search for Everestings in the hall of fame https://everesting.cc/hall-of-fame/#/

I read this as a portmanteau and have perfected the art of never leaving my sofa.

I think I like this idea better.

Looks like somebody on here I follow on Strava has done Toys in 2014.

Do it! The steeper the hill, the better (up to a certain point)

Lachlan got stripped from his record, problems with the elevation data on Strava: https://cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/news/why-lachlan-mortons-everesting-world-record-might-not-be-legitimate/

And the Hells500 post on FB:

Why Lachlan Morton’s Everesting Record may not be legitimate, and how we’re working to ensure it doesn’t happen again
On June 14, Lachlan Morton rode 42 laps of 'The Back Side of Rist' in what was seemed to be a new record for the fastest Everesting. Doubts have since been cast on whether Morton completed the required elevation gain. We often note discrepancies between recording devices (even when riders are using a backup device to record an Everesting they can be a few hundred metres apart). GPS devices can be affected by rain, changes in atmospheric pressure, tree cover and the units themselves can often under- or over-report elevation.
With that in mind, when adjudicating an Everesting attempt, we base our calculations on repeats of a given segment or section of road rather than looking at the ride’s total elevation gain. If we are able to understand the segment gain, and then the laps required are a simple product of the height of Everest (8,848m/29,029ft) divided by the segment/section gain.
When we check a reported segment gain in Strava (the segment itself) we’ll look for ‘saw-toothing’ in the profile which is a giveaway of a poorly formed segment, and one that would give an artificially inflated figure. We use some additional software to run a check on the Strava segment data. If we are looking for additional verification we next conduct a sense-check against the Strava mapping topographic lines.
We apply the same formula to all of our entries in the hall of fame, including both regular riders and those who appear to have set new records. As an estimate, we would see under- or over-reporting of data from devices in probably 10% of all submissions, and this is why we will check the elevation gain from repeats of a verified Strava segment over what the head unit will show.
For the vast majority of riders inspired to take on this challenge, that is a perfect way of both simply understanding and calculating how many laps to complete of a chosen local hill to ascend the height of Everest.
One thing we never anticipated when creating this challenge for our crew was that it would one day be raced by riders at the top level of the sport. In fact, ironically, this challenge was set up as the antithesis of racing! That said, we appreciate and respect that whilst completion is the driving factor for the vast majority of participants, the appeal of setting new records for Everesting has clearly taken hold - and so we’ll need to adapt to that.
Rather than retroactively applying additional rigor to our approval methodology after a new record is claimed, we feel that a fairer method is to pre-approve segments for record attempts. As mapping data varies in accuracy from country to country (and indeed the exact height of Everest itself is still a matter of some debate!) we will - to the best of our ability with the resources to hand - agree on a set elevation gain prior to an attempt.
Unfortunately we will never know how the situation may have differed if Lachlan had the independent segment analysis to hand pre-attempt. As painful as it is, we stand by our community’s decision to recategorise this as a (very large) Everesting Basecamp listing, which means Keegan Swenson is restored at the top of the Everesting leaderboard. We believe the new measures we have put in place to pre-qualify segments using independent data will prevent this from happening again.
The Hells 500 crew.

Wonder how far off it he was?

Seems to have checked with them prior according to his Instagram, seems to have taken it well considering.

Good to see everesting making a comeback. I did box hill and leith hill about 6 years ago when it wasn’t as cool. Another stipulation is that you want to be the first to do the hill so the likes of toys has been done multiple times.

I did two write ups here and here. Boxhill had a good story to it.

I’d like to do another one at some stage but I’d do gravel or something extra stupid.

I’d do gravel or something extra stupid

Haha