Does it get to you AT ALL?
someone said it would get to me, more than the hills, and was wondering what you guys thought about it…
1800 FOSL…No
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Do you live in Death Valley?
It’s Lake Placid, it ain’t Nepal. Or even Boulder.
<< someone said it would get to me, more than the hills >>
‘someone’ was yanking your chain, methinks.
I believe you are at 2K ft in town and climb to just under 2800 ft before the big keene descent. It is high enough that you only get ~90-95% of the oxygen at sea level (depending on barometric pressure). This is actually enough to reduce your performance marginally.
Edit…I believe my buddy’s S710 was somewhat miscalibrated. Trevor’s data makes more sense. The base of Whiteface is 1200 ft above sea level, and it is not quite 800 ft back into town nor another 800 ft climb out of town. More like ~600 ft on each side. In any event, still not sea level, but day to day atmospheric pressure changes likely have just as much of an impact at ~ 2000 ft as the marginally reduced partial pressure of O2.
Oh, an 800 foot climb will reduce my performance more than “marginally”!
L.P. is around:1800’ You max out around: 2200’ Up around the Jacket Rabbit Inn You generally don’t see significant performance reduction until approx. 1000m (3200’).
1871 feet at the top of the hill in town (the one you run up)…in Keene you get as low as 889 feet…I have not done the whole course on google.earth…but might.
Does it get to you AT ALL?
someone said it would get to me, more than the hills, and was wondering what you guys thought about it…
Maybe your brakes were rubbing.
Does it get to you AT ALL?
someone said it would get to me, more than the hills, and was wondering what you guys thought about it…
Sure does. Helps me tremendously - feel like I’m swimming in oxygen. Then again I live about 2000’ higher than LP.
Chip has it right. The section along the Ausable river is right around 900 feet. The highest point is right around 2400 feet by the trailhead for Cascade Mountain.
I have done this loop a lot, but I don’t think there is any altitude issue. I suck on hills all by myself.