I’m relatively new to structured training and I wanted to gauge what people thought about this ride. Is over 15,000 feet of climbing over 60 miles considered a good climbing workout? I just looked at my Garmin data and was surprised to see those numbers. How much do people here typically climb on their climbing focused rides?
Thanks in advance.
That’s three miles of vertical in 60 miles. Assuming half of the riding was up and half was down, that’s 3/30 or 10% average grade for 30 miles. Are you sure your data is correct? Where was this riding done?
I’m relatively new to structured training and I wanted to gauge what people thought about this ride. Is over 15,000 feet of climbing over 60 miles considered a good climbing workout? I just looked at my Garmin data and was surprised to see those numbers. How much do people here typically climb on their climbing focused rides?
Thanks in advance.
We have a ride in Austin that is 15,000 feet over 100 miles and that is pretty tough.
We also have a ride on Thursday night that is about 3000-3500 ft (depends on whose device you trust) in 30 miles which is perfect for a mid week training ride.
Garmins are off sometimes on altitude. There are a few sites that will correct your route and give you more accurate elevation info. I use Training Peaks Ground Control.
i’m thinking its wrong because i don’t think i’d be able to handle a ride like that. i upload my data into training peaks also. how do get the ground control function?
We have a ride in Austin that is 15,000 feet over 100 miles and that is pretty tough.
We also have a ride on Thursday night that is about 3000-3500 ft (depends on whose device you trust) in 30 miles which is perfect for a mid week training ride.
Garmins are off sometimes on altitude. There are a few sites that will correct your route and give you more accurate elevation info. I use Training Peaks Ground Control.
Would you happen to have a route map for this? I’m heading down to Wimberley next week and am hoping to find as many hills as possible.
I did 10 miles Sunday in Atlanta. It said my ascent was 1600 feet. I did the route on mapmyrun.com and it said 265 feet of ascent. I’m not sure which is right and why both would be so different.
We have a ride in Austin that is 15,000 feet over 100 miles and that is pretty tough.
We also have a ride on Thursday night that is about 3000-3500 ft (depends on whose device you trust) in 30 miles which is perfect for a mid week training ride.
Garmins are off sometimes on altitude. There are a few sites that will correct your route and give you more accurate elevation info. I use Training Peaks Ground Control.
Would you happen to have a route map for this? I’m heading down to Wimberley next week and am hoping to find as many hills as possible.
The 100 mile is mostly in town and focused on the West Lake and 360 area. You can find links to maps on the Tour das Hugel site.
The 30 mile ride leaves Bicycle Sport Shop north and does Lakewood, Jester, City Park and Big View. PM and I can probably make a garmin course file or something for you.
gps without an altimeter are usually off by at least a factor of 2x. the signal bounces around vertically and all that bouncing adds up. upload it to motionbased and use the “gravity” correction when importing the data.
15K in 60 miles would be a HUGE amount of climbing. Assuming the large downhills also needed, that would be 3 x 5K peaks (i.e. Cherohala, Mt. Palomar, etc.) all in 60 miles, so unlikely. Your data is likely counting the up/down portion. Hard to get accurate ascending info for sure.