How hilly is hilly?

[kerndog]

I kick myself when I'm cycling (ussually going up hill) I used to live near holland - and I didn't cycle then !! -
I started cycling in wiltshire - its all bloody ridges , you struggle up one side to wizz down the other - totally pointless.

I used to live in Holland, down south near the german boarder. We uased to cycle everywhere on old school dutch bikes, loved it. The ride back from the 'tea house' was always a blast.
Would love to ride in Holland on the road bike, although I'd imagine it might be a bit boring now though, kind of learning to appreciate the hills!

 

[kerndog]

Well personally i would class that as a pretty hilly course Kerndog, specially as you've only started riding for a few weeks !!!
Good work, keep it going

thanks Bob - yeah it feels hilly! I'm at the start of week 5 and really feeling the progress now, love the way you can feel yourself getting fitter and stronger.

off for a quick ride now as the is shining

 

[kerndog]

15 achievements! Kudos. I wish I could do hills that well.

thanks!

 

[mangid]

The scale I've used for years

0-5m/km of climbing = flat
5-10m/km = rolling
10-15m/km = slightly hilly
15-20m/km = hilly
20-25m/km = very hilly
>25m/km = insanely hilly

Your ride was 19.2m/km

Most I've done is 40m/km, which was the Tourmalet/Aspin and Peyresourde in one day. Which given my normal commute of 3m/km I was quite pleased with :-)

 

[ColinJ]

Most I've done is 40m/km, which was the Tourmalet/Aspin and Peyresourde in one day. Which given my normal commute of 3m/km I was quite pleased with :-)

I dream of doing that kind of ride. It might never happen now, but I still live in hope!

 

[daSmirnov]

Pretty hilly, just looked on Strava a lot of my 60 mile rides with about the same amount of climbing.

But then I usually try and avoid hills

 

[Shadow]

...which ever direction I go in there are going to be big hills, which I'm learning to love and am beginning to see them as a challenge.

Good for you. This is the right attitude. Hills are mostly mental, not physical challenges.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Good for you. This is the right attitude. Hills are mostly mental, not physical challenges.

I am getting that way, it's not to hilly round here, but there are some short quite steep bits (well for me, but they get easier)
Most i have done was 14.14m/km but it was only a short ride round town.
The most hilly (not that it is on that scale) for a longer ride was 50km with 12.97m/km I have climbed more but on longer runs 61km @ 11.5m/km and 90km 889.41m @ 9.89m/km.
Like i said its not to hilly round here.

 

[kerndog]

Good for you. This is the right attitude. Hills are mostly mental, not physical challenges.

I was winning the mental battle but todays little jaunt ( http://app.strava.com/activities/43116153 ) nearly killed me!

 

[WobblyBob]

So how does 4680ft climbing over 60 miles stack up in m/km.....sorry for being thick/imperial , i'm just interested.
Ta.

 

[ColinJ]

Very nearly hilly - 14.77 m/km!

 

[helston90]

I was winning the mental battle but todays little jaunt ( http://app.strava.com/activities/43116153 ) nearly killed me!

It's just the beautiful county we live in- you'll get some people on here from lakes/ north of the border saying we don't really have hills but we also don't have is flats- anywhere- you're nearly always going up (or down but this doesn't last as long) a hill.
My commute to work comes out at 13.5m/km over a 12 mile stretch- it's something we have to learn to love!

 

[sheffgirl]

I live in Sheffield, which is famous for it's hills and I happen to live up a rather big hill. I'm not very good at hill climbing, but I am working on it. My goal is to be able to ride up one particular hill on my way home, unfortunately it's the third uphill in a row so I'm usually quite tired by that point This is the best image I could find of the hill in question, but it doesn't show the full incline very well.

 

[geo]

I live in Sheffield, which is famous for it's hills and I happen to live up a rather big hill. I'm not very good at hill climbing, but I am working on it. My goal is to be able to ride up one particular hill on my way home, unfortunately it's the third uphill in a row so I'm usually quite tired by that point This is the best image I could find of the hill in question, but it doesn't show the full incline very well.
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It shows it well enough and thats a hill well done.

Living in Liverpool i'm not blessed with too many hill challenges, which may sound like a good thing but honestly I'd rather have a few smallish hills to deal with

 

[Licramite]

My normal route to salisbury is a bit like a saws edge, its all short sharp hills going and long slow ones coming back - it takes on average 10minutes longer getting back. -
Shadow is right - Hills are just a mental obsticle - they are bad enough when you don't know how bad they are going to be - like on first ride on a route - but they are twice as bad the second time - you know whats coming. I keep looking at the map for a way round them. - but no it's that or an extra 20miles each way.