bluenotebob
Guru
- Location
- central Brittany, France
I’m still uncertain as to what my ascent target should be for this year. I had thought that 400m would be challenging (even if substantially less than everyone else’s) and I may go with that.
Yesterday’s 86km ride (6.5 hours from leaving the van to returning) only netted 331m total ascent. It was a hard ride – probably because I’m struggling to come out of winter – but I’d hoped for more ascent than that. As I’d suspected, heading south and crossing the Oust, climbing up then dropping into the Claie valley – then climbing up the other side before returning north is the only way I’m going to exceed 400m if following that route.
In contrast, a 25km local ride on one of my mountain bikes (less than 2 hours’ riding) a couple of weeks ago resulted in 200m of ascent. A much better return – if only for half of my target.
Well, I’ll keep plugging away and hopefully I’ll get one or two rides over 400m posted before the end of March.
Yesterday’s 86km ride (6.5 hours from leaving the van to returning) only netted 331m total ascent. It was a hard ride – probably because I’m struggling to come out of winter – but I’d hoped for more ascent than that. As I’d suspected, heading south and crossing the Oust, climbing up then dropping into the Claie valley – then climbing up the other side before returning north is the only way I’m going to exceed 400m if following that route.
In contrast, a 25km local ride on one of my mountain bikes (less than 2 hours’ riding) a couple of weeks ago resulted in 200m of ascent. A much better return – if only for half of my target.
Well, I’ll keep plugging away and hopefully I’ll get one or two rides over 400m posted before the end of March.
