devashish_paul wrote:
Also do you think you can ask him to jump on here to elaborate on the oil rig everest? How steep are the stairs on the oil rig and how quickly did he cover the 118m vertical each time? He averaged a VAM of around 775m which is insane as this INCLUDEs rest to take the elevator down. He was probably more like an average VAM of 1000-1100m when actually moving which gives you the equivalent moving VAM of what you need to do to ride Alpe d'Huez in an hour. But he did this with no mechanical advantage of a bike and was weight bearing all the way up. Did he put a chair in the elevator on the way down to rest and nourish. Did he stop mid was on the 118m per try to let his heart rate settle? What was his average and max heart rate.
I think if you changed the title of this thread to "Everest on an Oil Rig by Norseman Champ Alan Hovda" we'll get a ton of interest from readers. I fear no one clicked on the link because they don't know who he is.
....and it is no suprise the Norseman champ pulled off this crazy human feat. Between winter open water swimming, trainer riding and oil rig "hills" the guy should be unstoppable for Norseman!
Hi and thanks for the interest.
I am happy to share everything about my oil rig everesting. My Strava file is here:
https://www.strava.com/.../4890974077/overview (I had to delete it and upload it again to get HR data).
What I will do is filming the path with a GoPro-camera so you can see how it looks. Some parts are really steep, and other like normal stairs. We have rails the whole way which I used a lot until about 7 hours when my triceps started cramping up.
I took the elevator down which in pure moving time was 2:36, which made my effective none elevating movement 2:50-3:00 in best case. As its an elevator used by people who actually do work and corona restrictions allows only two people in the elevator simultaneously I had to wait a fair bit for the elevator, especially the first three hours as that was in day shift time.
The first 6 hours I held a steady pace of between 5:30 - 6:00 min uphill time, before I got slower. Another 1:40 before I had my first 6:30 min uphill and kept it more or less around 7 - 7:10 min from 10 hours.
My average HR for the uphills was about 160-is with 172-3 max (my threshold for running is around 165 bpm) until around 6 hour and 16 minutes before decreasing. In other words, I hit it as hard as I could for as long as I could which was about 6 hours. From then I had to go slower to be able to finish.
I moved the whole time on the way up and sat down on the floor of the elevator.
On the equipment side I used a boiler suit, helmet, safety goggles and rather heavy safety shoes (pics will follow).
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