Rapha Rising; Strava

[Phil485]

I've entered, but don't expect to do well. Just no hills near my commute!

 

[Mapster1989]

Shame it didn't start a two weeks ago when I was in the Alps. I racked up over 15000m climbing in one week. I'm currently only 40% through after 3 rides, but I have a full day pass from the missus on Sat, so I'm going hill hunting.

All hail the day pass!

 

[Rob/]

How come "Rob /" is the leader with 33,815.6 metres of climbing when it says that he has only ridden 142.2 km (88.4 miles) in the last week!

Hey Colin, in case you haven't already realised, you were looking at last year's leaderboard http://app.strava.com/challenges/rapha-rising-circle-of-death and it took well over 1000 miles to log those meters.

Here's this years http://app.strava.com/challenges/rapha-rising-2013

 

[ColinJ]

Hey Colin, in case you haven't already realised, you were looking at last year's leaderboard http://app.strava.com/challenges/rapha-rising-circle-of-death and it took well over 1000 miles to log those meters.

Here's this years http://app.strava.com/challenges/rapha-rising-2013

I am easily confused!

Looking at the current leaderboard, the numbers do in fact appear to be in metres, not feet.

I don't really like the idea of doing repeats on the same hills, over and over again. I think a more interesting challenge would only allow each climb to be counted once. It would take more planning and riding greater distances to get the climbing done that way. Not much use to people who do not have many climbs to choose from, though ...

 

[Rob/]

I have to agree with you about hill repeats. For the last two days I have done two moorland rides, with only one hill repeat - at the start of yesterdays ride to loosen up after Tuesday's effort, when I did no repeats at all http://app.strava.com/activities/67809043 http://app.strava.com/activities/67535595

However, this would obviously severely limit those who aren't blessed with a place like Exmoor on their doorstep.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

OMG, this one is hard, I’m only on 35% and i need to take a rest day today, my legs are absolutely killing me!

 

[zizou]

Thats me finished.

Did resort to hill repeats on Tuesday and Wednesday but that was due to time factors - can fit in about 1000 metres of climbing in about 20 miles that way i'd be about 40 miles per 1000 without doing any repeats.