How much climbing do you do?

[cyberknight]

454 feet mostly in the last 5 miles of a 10 mile each way commute, then reverse it for the return trip.

 

[briantrumpet]

Devon is fairly hilly as we know. My usual post work loop is 900ft of elevation gain over 16 miles.. but I've no idea whether this is average or greater / lower than average etc..

Indeed - my Devon routes starting from Topsham vary mostly between 500ft & 1000ft per 10 miles. My Woodbury Common 22-mile loop is 1430ft, my 'flat' Teign Valley 44-mile route is 2850 ft, and my 40-mile Broadclyst-Sidmouth loop 3000ft. A 60-mile ride to Dartmoor last year came in at 6,300ft, and last Saturday's 100-mile trip to the North Somerset coast was 7,670ft. The flattest loop I do is 43 miles up to Willand and across to Tiverton, and even that's 2,120ft. Devon's not a good place if you don't like hills.

 

[paddy01]

Hi Brian....** waves from Exmouth **....

 

[briantrumpet]

Hi Brian....** waves from Exmouth **....

Waving back....

I rarely come down to Exmouth as the main road's too crowded & narrow, and I'm too much of a hooligan really for the sedate cycle track by the river ... though I will be cycling that way for a week in June to play at the Pavilion in 'Singing in the Rain'.

Woodbury Common is a favourite for routes though .... wave if you see a Cannondale ... though I probably won't be carrying a trumpet.

 

[Bayerd]

i'm doing about 1000m total vertical ascent on my usual rides. one of the benefits of living on a highly seismic island is that there are plenty of really beautiful mountain passes here. one of my favourite rides starts at a beach and ends at a 3200m pass over 80 km. it passes through marble gorges, semi tropical jungle, conifer forests to grasslands above the treeline. there is a hostel at the top where one can rest overnight and down one or two bottles of beer.

How do you manage?

 

[paddy01]

I actually don't find the main road that bad, and will use it on the rare occasion I commute into Exeter by bike.. that said I will often be found on the Exe Trail during quieter evening times...watch out for a Black/Red/White Madone being ridden by a slightly portly chap with a purple hue about him :-)

Having next week off, a main aim is to pick some new routes as though I enjoy my main evening route it's getting a bit stale, Woodbury will be featuring heavily no doubt :-)

 

[ColinJ]

i'm doing about 1000m total vertical ascent on my usual rides. one of the benefits of living on a highly seismic island is that there are plenty of really beautiful mountain passes here. one of my favourite rides starts at a beach and ends at a 3200m pass over 80 km. it passes through marble gorges, semi tropical jungle, conifer forests to grasslands above the treeline. there is a hostel at the top where one can rest overnight and down one or two bottles of beer.

If I was fit, that's the kind of thing I would love but I reckon it would probably be too hot and humid for me anyway. (Mind you, if I wasn't overweight, I probably wouldn't overheat the way I do now ... )

 

[Garz]

Depends on what route I do and what time i have. If it's a workday evening a 23 mile flat spin is all I have time for, if I throw in my hillier routes the sun would be down and it would get cooler (for now).

A flat spin is typically upto 25 miles with only a 1000'ft
A hilly route is approx double the elevation over the same distance