How much climbing do you do?

[nightoff]

Pretty flat where I live.

The closest I have to climbing is crossing a motorway bridge on the way to work. That's only if I take the long route.

 

[thelawnet]

About 20 feet a mile on average I'd say

 

[fossyant]

Living on the edge of the Peaks, I'd say most of us locally do 1000 ft per 10 miles here easily. My commute isn't hilly though. Not much steep stuff for me just yet, post op.

 

[byegad]

My 20 mile route today, one of my flatter rides, had 915 feet of climbing. My flattest 16 mile loop has 580 feet, no real hills just rolling countryside. A hillier loop of 26 miles has 2568 feet of climbing. All taken from the route plotted onto Memory map. I my experience different mapping programs vary quite a lot.

As you can see County Durham has a few hills too!

 

[pepecat]

I do as little climbing as possible...... 252 ft on today's ride, and that was enough.
I HATE hills.
So signing up for the dartmoor classic may have been a bit stupid.....

 

[Nebulous]

I started commuting a couple of months ago. I travel less than 2 miles, with 300 feet of climb.

I'm not convinced that it's getting any easier, it's always a slog.

Coming home is pretty good though!

James

 

[2PedalsTez]

So signing up for the dartmoor classic may have been a bit stupid.....

Hmmmm... you could say that!
I rode it last year (and doing it again this year).. some challenging hills for sure!
It is a ride that gives a real feeling of achievement... good luck and enjoy it.

 

[mcshroom]

Minimum I get away with on my commute is 640ft in 11.5 miles

On a nice day I quite often do a 21.5 mile circuit with 1700ft climbing. Not flat here either

 

[Chris James]

Living on the edge of the Peaks, I'd say most of us locally do 1000 ft per 10 miles here easily. My commute isn't hilly though. Not much steep stuff for me just yet, post op.

I reckon to about 1000m height gain per 30 miles, so its pretty much the same this side of the Pennines!

 

[the_mikey]

I don't do much climbing, there's a 130ft hill that I can climb up for practice that's less than a mile away, the biggest I've climbed up is ~800ft, last weekend I climbed 650ft, the last serious hill before that was 275ft and I was sick at the top but plenty of time on the trainer over the winter has improved that, I still prefer to avoid hills.


Edited to include distances:

800ft - 3 miles

650ft - 1.5miles

275ft - 1 mile

130ft - 0.62 miles

This is what you get when you live near the Cotswold ridge!

 

[paddy01]

Cool, thanks to all who've replied, interesting info, seems my riding is probably in the middle ascent wise.

 

[Bayerd]

It can vary greatly depending on which way out of the village I travel. If I go west, then there's instantly 500' in less than 3 miles, which I like to do at least once a week. My more regular runs are around 500' for every 10 miles.

 

[Wobblers]

The short commute home has 350 feet in 3.5 miles... and a seemingly permanent head wind!

The long way has 1000 feet in 12 miles. This is fairly typical for most of the rides I do: it's one of the benefits (I think that's the right word!) of living on the top of a hill.

 

[jakecundy]

Living in the peak district you can't really get away from hills.
Tonight I went out and did 20 miles with 2000 feet of climbing, and at the weekend 76 miles with 5005 feet. Depends how much I want to make my legs scream!

 

[greenmark]

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.