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 2013-10-02 12:14 PM |
 553   St Catharines, Ontario |  Subject: Who has a nice hill?Recently on the advice that hill training makes you faster I have added a detour on my way home up a local hill. Up and down the bridge over the highway is really not cutting it. Sadly there is no elevation increase of more then 100m anywhere near where I live but I did find this little bueaty with a nice 20% section in the middle.  I will be using this for run repeats soon and for a long route home from work on the bike. It is tiny by cycling standards, but a short sharp shock for someone of my ability. Anyone else blessed or cursed by the local terrain? |
| 2013-10-02 12:18 PM in reply to: badmo77a |
| Seattle | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Oh yeah. I live at nearly the highest point in the city. Once I leave my house it's downhill but no matter which route I take, I am faced with a pretty big climb to get home.
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| 2013-10-02 12:24 PM in reply to: Asalzwed |
Master 6595  Rio Rancho, NM | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Originally posted by Asalzwed Oh yeah. I live at nearly the highest point in the city. Once I leave my house it's downhill but no matter which route I take, I am faced with a pretty big climb to get home.
Me too! I've got plenty of hills to choose from. |
| 2013-10-02 1:32 PM in reply to: rrrunner |
Veteran 495 Calgary | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? My hill is about 65 meters, but nobody says that I'm only allowed to climb it once. It's an access road to a local park and has a speed limit of 20km/h. It's also popular with cyclists doing hill workouts - I like to see other people suffering with me, and I can't help getting sucked into the challenge of trying to catch riders that are ahead of me. It usually takes me around four minutes to go up and two to come down. I2 repetitions is the most that I have done. (I'm not sure whether the main barrier to doing more reps is mental or physical.) Oh, and I like the patterns that this makes on Garmin Connect. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/379163139 Don |
| 2013-10-02 1:44 PM in reply to: donw |
Iron Donkey 38643 , Wisconsin | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? I have a number of routes with some good "rollers" near my house, and happen to live just a little more than 30 minutes from the IM WI bike route. It would be ideal to live in CO, though. |
| 2013-10-02 1:45 PM in reply to: donw |
| Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? I suppose I'm lucky enough to live in an area where there are lots of options for hill work. My favorite is a 4.5 mile climb averaging 5.7%. |
| 2013-10-02 2:08 PM in reply to: Jason N |
| 754 | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? I live in WV, so good luck trying to find a flat spot. I have heard triathletes who are training for long distance races elsewhere complain that they can't find a suitable area to ride aero. I live on top of a hill with a 150' climb in the last half mile (less if I take the steep route). I work on top of a hill with about 120' in 0.4 miles. My favorite hill route climbs at a fairly steady 4% for 7 miles. A typical ride or run has 50-100' of climbing per mile. |
| 2013-10-02 2:16 PM in reply to: badmo77a |
Expert 2192 Greenville, SC | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? |
| 2013-10-02 2:24 PM in reply to: 1stTimeTri |
| Master 10208 Northern IL | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Originally posted by 1stTimeTri I have a number of routes with some good "rollers" near my house, and happen to live just a little more than 30 minutes from the IM WI bike route. It would be ideal to live in CO, though. I drive a few hours to ride this area. Otherwise everything by me is less than 100 ft. 100 meters would be a huge increase. |
| 2013-10-02 2:25 PM in reply to: badmo77a |
Extreme Veteran 584 Puyallup, WA | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Here is mine. Course is 152 miles with 10,000 ft of climbing. I got the chance to ride this course in 2012 This is a local race in WA St. (ramrod_courseprofile_inspiration.jpg) Attachments ---------------- ramrod_courseprofile_inspiration.jpg (27KB - 11 downloads) |
 2013-10-02 2:26 PM in reply to: badmo77a |
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| 2013-10-02 2:33 PM in reply to: badmo77a |
| Master 2167 Livonia, MI | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Man, I wish I had bigger hills..................
......in the area where I train, get your minds out of the gutter! Southeast MI is pretty pancake-like. You get the occasional rollers but definitely nothing with major gain around here. I don't mind it that much since most of the racing I do is in state with fairly similar conditions. |
| 2013-10-02 2:35 PM in reply to: noelle1230 |
| Seattle | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Originally posted by noelle1230 Man, I wish I had bigger hills..................
......in the area where I train, get your minds out of the gutter! Southeast MI is pretty pancake-like. You get the occasional rollers but definitely nothing with major gain around here. I don't mind it that much since most of the racing I do is in state with fairly similar conditions. Prove that you don't! Man, you beat me to it. Only just now did the wires connect to make such a comment! |
| 2013-10-02 2:39 PM in reply to: Asalzwed |
| Veteran 2842 Austin, Texas | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Originally posted by Asalzwed Originally posted by noelle1230 Man, I wish I had bigger hills..................
......in the area where I train, get your minds out of the gutter! Southeast MI is pretty pancake-like. You get the occasional rollers but definitely nothing with major gain around here. I don't mind it that much since most of the racing I do is in state with fairly similar conditions. Prove that you don't! Man, you beat me to it. Only just now did the wires connect to make such a comment! Just opened the thread and saw that you both continue to represent! As for climbing on the bike, we have nice modest hills, but the longest sustained climbs are in the 8-10 minute range, unless you ride out closer to central MA (Mt. Wachusetts, for example, but that's a 60-80 miler from the near 'burbs). Did lots of reps on Oak Hill to get ready for Tman. Up and down and up and down... Really wanted a LONG one after the fifth ride or so (stay out of the gutter - heard it as I wrote it, but entirely unintentional) |
| 2013-10-02 2:39 PM in reply to: Asalzwed |
| Master 2167 Livonia, MI | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Originally posted by Asalzwed Originally posted by noelle1230 Man, I wish I had bigger hills..................
......in the area where I train, get your minds out of the gutter! Southeast MI is pretty pancake-like. You get the occasional rollers but definitely nothing with major gain around here. I don't mind it that much since most of the racing I do is in state with fairly similar conditions. Prove that you don't! Man, you beat me to it. Only just now did the wires connect to make such a comment! Are you not able to view my avi???? The irony is that if I DID more hills, MY hills would probably get even smaller. |
| 2013-10-02 2:40 PM in reply to: badmo77a |
| Champion 7036 Sarasota, FL | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? |
| 2013-10-02 2:54 PM in reply to: badmo77a |
| Master 3888 Overland Park, KS | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Not a lot here in Kansas, I've got to ride 70+ miles to accumulate 3,000 feet of climbing unless I want to do hill repeats etc. But for long rides where I need hills I do include this hill on that route. This is a Strava screen shot showing the peak grade of 24%. The average is 8% over 0.5 miles. I plan on repeating this one when I pull the trigger on Savageman. (Ogg Hill Max Grade.JPG) Attachments ---------------- Ogg Hill Max Grade.JPG (32KB - 8 downloads) |
| 2013-10-02 3:02 PM in reply to: pahmiyel |
| 553 St Catharines, Ontario | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Originally posted by pahmiyel My team trains on a hill similiar to yours It hurts! One time after a race weekend we ran up the hill..backwards...and that was painful and awesome.
Also how did you add that image to the post? Do you have to save the image to a website and then upload it? I just got http://tinypic.com/to host the image (takes 30 seconds) and dump the top link into my post. Course was modeled in mapmyride (free registration, free mapping, free/slow grade charting). I used microsoft snipping tool (part for windows 7) to get the image off the mmr website. |
we usually run down, back up and then do a half mile loop and repeat about 3 times plus the 1.5 warm up run to the hill and then 1.5 run back to the training center. Its highest grade is 20% but most of it is in the 13-15% range 
| 2013-10-02 3:12 PM in reply to: mcmanusclan5 |
| Master 10208 Northern IL | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Originally posted by mcmanusclan5 Just opened the thread and saw that you both continue to represent! As for climbing on the bike, we have nice modest hills, but the longest sustained climbs are in the 8-10 minute range, unless you ride out closer to central MA (Mt. Wachusetts, for example, but that's a 60-80 miler from the near 'burbs). Did lots of reps on Oak Hill to get ready for Tman. Up and down and up and down... Really wanted a LONG one after the fifth ride or so (stay out of the gutter - heard it as I wrote it, but entirely unintentional) Trying to think of something that takes over 3 minutes within riding distance. Maybe 1? Hardly anything reaches 1 minute. The longer ones also tend to be a lower grade. |
| 2013-10-02 3:17 PM in reply to: badmo77a |
| Pro 4578 Vancouver, BC | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? We're really close to the mountains, so it's easy to ride up them. Well not easy to ride up them, but easy to get to them, so that you can ride up them.
Here's our local mountains http://www.strava.com/segments/612178 http://www.strava.com/segments/613754
We also have lots of rolling hill routes, some are very scenic. We are lucky, we have lots of flat routes too and places to practice timetrailing. I have lots of opportunities for hill repeats on varying terrain. Here's a usual hill repeat workout. http://www.strava.com/activities/48245104 |
| 2013-10-02 3:21 PM in reply to: badmo77a |
| Member 1293 Pearland,Tx | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? |
| 2013-10-02 3:25 PM in reply to: strykergt |
| Sensei Sin City | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Believe it or not, we have lots of hills around her. There is only one "flat" route around her. Mostly rolling stuff or I could head into Red Rocks Park for some additional climbing or Mt Charleston for something nasty (for around here). |
| 2013-10-02 3:35 PM in reply to: badmo77a |
| 1660 | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? I used to live at t he top of a 0.5 climb with a 19% gradient. Yup, 19%. Was a real bear to climb on the back of any ride. You should take advantage of your flat terrain for power-based training, actually. As good as hills are for training for hills, the downhills become a waste of training time if it's too technical to keep power up without being dangerous. I've got awesome hills in my area, but it takes me nearl 20 minutes to descend them, and thus for max time efficiency, I sometimes even ride my trainer in lieu. (!) |
| 2013-10-02 9:51 PM in reply to: yazmaster |
| Extreme Veteran 792 | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? This is my neighborhood. I've got some hills. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/364469680 It is actually somewhat false that climbing hills makes you a faster cyclist. You easily emulate hill riding by interval training with sustained efforts at high power output. |
| 2013-10-02 10:19 PM in reply to: donw |
| Veteran 2297 Great White North | Subject: RE: Who has a nice hill? Home Road? |
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