Carl Spackler wrote:
I didn’t look at any data for first 30 min and totally miscalculated. Ended up going out about 20 watts hot and paid the price for last 15min. Not terrible, considered I haven’t done anything requiring good pacing for years, but certainly room for improvement.
More than anything it was a gut check to see if I can still suffer well for no reason other than because. Final tally was a hair shy of 3400 feet in an hour, Could have added 200-300 more with right climb and better pacing. Maybe another year.
For someone your caliber, I doubt it would fully go away
fredericknorton wrote:
hmmm - hadnt heard of this. i've been filming some climbs for a trainer app (fulgaz). whiteface mtn just outside of lake placid at steady hard (but a bit less than flat out, cuz i try to stand as little as possible for better filming) was 8 miles/3550 ft/54 minutes.
so maybe under perfect conditions 4k elevation possible for me in an hour?? whiteface is pretty steep average for the 8 miles so it must be near ideal for this kind of thing.
i filmed a blue ridge climb/descent/steep climb in about the same time but that was only 2750 ft elevation.
doing some blue ridge gravel next - that will be slower!
i might film wintergreen, but for some reason i don't like that climb and talk about
a mean climb for sitting!! its not long enough though for this kind of record unless you descend a steep section or two and get back at it.
strade bianche cant come soon enough - are there such things as start lists?? benoot's win 2 years ago might be the best race ive seen in 5 years.
sincerely, rick
if i could have done it ~90 rpm on a 34x36t, I'm sure someone of your caliber could do most of it in the saddle on a 34x32t (or higher)
Looking back at my file, the worst thing about the damn climb was that the gradient change became a lot more frequent toward the top. A lot of 5 mph followed by sections where I'm going at 15 mph. At least the 11% grade in the middle was just consistently tough.
Also, scariest part of the ride by far was heading back toward the resort when I got to the top (resort is about 85% up the climb, full descent down would have been sheer madness). It was rainy (not heavy at all), and I ran the lightest carbon tubulars I had at the time. Trying to slow down on a 13% decline was an effing nightmare, and I even blew a stop sign, as I just couldn't slow down.