Is it "lumpy" where you live?

[Rickshaw Phil]

A nice selection of terrain round my area. Plenty of hills to the south, plenty of flat(ish) to the north and a mixture to the east and west.

 

[Poacher]

Deceptively rolling is how I would describe it. We have no 'proper hills' unless you count Gas Hill where the Gas Hill Gasp is run annually. People think that its as flat as a pancake here but it's not. Flat as a pancake is Lincolnshire, not Norfolk.

Errrm, highest point in Norfolk: 103 metres. Highest point in Lincolnshire: 168 metres. Care to reconsider your claim?

Here in Notts, I have a choice of fairly lumpy, or easy relative flatness - guess my preference!

 

[outlash]

Crikey! I do about 450ft in the last mile of my ride home!

Lol! To be fair though, that's heading out onto the fens where it's flat as a pancake but no matter which direction you're riding, the wind is always in your face.

Tony.

 

[MarkF]

Is anywhere lumpier than Bradford? I live north on the Aire Valley, I can cycle 10 miles flattish to Leeds or 20 to Skipton, any deviation at all, from the valley, involves ball busting work.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Flat around here, 4000 feet of climbing is the norm on a 100 miler though we do have the odd hill so hill reps are possible if that's your thing.

 

[ColinJ]

Is anywhere lumpier than Bradford? I live north on the Aire Valley, I can cycle 10 miles flattish to Leeds or 20 to Skipton, any deviation at all, from the valley, involves ball busting work.

Anywhere else (such as Hebden Bridge) in a steep-sided valley!

Here is the profile of the forum ride I did from here on Monday ...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Nowhere is flat around here, it's a ridge and furrow sortof landscape, ridge then valley ridge then valley but nothing huge, bounded north and south by ranges of hills. But the hills are only soft shandy-drinking southern ones and whilst OS single-chevron climbs abound I think I'm right in saying there is only one OS double-chevron in West Sussex.

 

[Cubist]

View from the lounge window.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

View from the lounge window.

I hate you

 

[marzjennings]

No, it's flat as flat can be. Nearest hills are about 100 miles away. We ride multi-story car parks just to get some hill training in.

 

[jazzkat]

There's a lump and bump or two nearby.

To be fair, those hills are an hours ride away.
Though this is the hill up to my house

 

[LarryDuff]

I have a choice where I live. I can head east into the Dromara hills anf the rest of county down which generally unflat. Or I can go West into county Armagh which is pretty flat.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I could ride 50/60 flat as a pancake miles heading in certain directions, or I could tackle a 17% hill riding round the corner

 

[NorvernRob]

I average 80-100ft per mile and can't really do any less other than one 20 mile loop that is only around 1100ft of climbing.

Doing a 103 mile sportive in Lincolnshire tomorrow that has around 30ft per mile, going to be really interesting to see what kind of pace we can keep on a much flatter ride.

 

[MikeW-71]

Fairly bumpy whichever way I go. eg:
http://app.strava.com/activities/147693616

I can get a "flat" ride, but that still gives me 700 ft of climb in 20 miles