Well, the valley roads are pretty flat but they are far too built up and busy! There are certainly a lot of good climbs around here. Having said that, I like the sound of lukesdad's local countryside, but I think I'll give Carmarthenshire a miss until I'm about 3 stone lighter!
I just fired up Memory Map and panned it over to your neck of the woods - wow, contour-tastic! It's very lumpy round here but the number of roads is fairly limited so there are not that many possible route variations. I can imagine spending years trying out all those different roads of yours. It would definitely not be the place to live if you didn't like hills!
CJ been down here 8 years and still dont think, Ive done all the possible routes,even just the local ones. North into Ceredigion and west into North Pembrokeshire is more of the same.
You mean the area which is kinda boarded by the A40, A485, A475, A484, A478? Short rides easy to get those numbers, longer rides I was seriously struggling to keep those kinds of climb rates up without repeatedly using the same roads.
You need to come to Carmarthenshire GB. Have a glance at an O/S north west carmarthenshire and you ll see what I mean. Get your Butt down here for one of our rides
Maybe 15km minimum ride length.I like this definition ... but what is the minimum distance to ride before you would use them. For example my shortest ride is to drop my son at school - which is a mere half km (one way) and a drop of 15 m - and I don't notice it, and then where ever I go after that its probably up and down - but if you take where I was working a couple of weeks ago then it was 3 km away and a drop of 70 m (with a little sharp bump in the middle of that).
To the hill lovers on here that's probably nothing ... but I hate hills - especially that particular route back to my house! I'm never sure how much of it would be dismissed as hardly an effort. I would hate to live where some of you lived - or perhaps I would just have to get better quickly. Luckily I would say that although it seems very up and down round here there aren't any what I would call long climbs.
If I had to guess, I'd say that your job involves lots of numbers!I went on the Evesham CC 'Two leaf clover' yesterday. It was flat.
There was one climb, which was optional. The routesheet went round it but I chose to climb it to shorten the distance.
It was 12% for about 0.75 km. Not even 125 kCals for it. At the top, I put the bike back in a higher gear and kept deep breathing to keep O2 circulating. I had just spent 5 miles worth of CHO, so I had a small rock cake at the control stop.
As I said, the ride was 'FLAT'.
PS. I used 42 x 23 at 23 rpm putting out about 290 Watts.
If you work it out, I did 140 revs total to climb the hill.
If I had to guess, I'd say that your job involves lots of numbers!
