How hilly is your commute?

[Shut Up Legs]

I was just curious to see how hilly your commutes are. My commute home is shown below, or at least its elevation profile. It keeps me fit! The highlighted bit is also the highlight of my commute, and I suspect part of the reason I've lost about 8% of my body weight compared to last year. It has about an average 10% grade, with a few sections up near 15% grade, and even with the "granny gears", I get a solid workout riding up it.

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

What program have you used to produce that? I quite like it!

 

[Shut Up Legs]

What program have you used to produce that? I quite like it!

It's SportTracks. Do an internet search and you'll find it easily enough. It's only available for Windows, unfortunately.

 

[Drago]

Mine isn't too bad.

An elevation drop going in, way hey!

On the way home there's a dirty great steep hill at the end of the road from work which I always push the bike up because tackling it with cold legs and lungs feels horrible.

 

[Stevie Mcluskey]

East Kilbride to Cathcart. Downhill all the way in and uphill all the way back.

 

[fossala]

I do 28mile round trip in Cornwall.

 

[classic33]

15%! that'd be the last 1/2 mile on the homeward trip.
At one job there was a gentle 40° climb, starting two miles from the end.

15° is about normal round here.

 

[Rustybucket]

I only have Notting hill to go up, the rest is flat. Staines to Camden.

 

[ACS]

Rurals road of NE Fife. 11.6 miles each way 690 feet of climbing. A quicker route of 10.1 miles with 500 feet.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Flat as a pancake
@Stevie Mcluskey I feel your pain: I do Rutherglen to city, turn left out my scheme I could ride to East Kilbride via Fernhill ... but why should I?

 

[classic33]

It's SportTracks. Do an internet search and you'll find it easily enough. It's only available for Windows, unfortunately.

Is the watch required in order to get a route profile, or can you plan the route first?

 

[Shut Up Legs]

SportTracks displays these graphs after you load a trip file (e.g. in TCX or FIT file format) into it. I don't know what you mean by a 'watch'.
This software doesn't let you plan routes before riding them (and then, while you ride, generating the trip files using a bike computer of some sort).

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Rolling Warwickshire countryside, I cycle between Coventry and Nuneaton, on the way home Donnithorne Avenue in Nuneaton and St Giles Rd in Ash Green, on the way to work Bowling Green Lane Ash Green, the drag up into Bedworth, the short climb out of Bedworth towards the Griff island and the short climb into Nuneaton.

 

[classic33]

SportTracks displays these graphs after you load a trip file (e.g. in TCX or FIT file format) into it. I don't know what you mean by a 'watch'.
This software doesn't let you plan routes before riding them (and generating the trip files using a bike computer of some sort).

Going with the first result got me this

Not worth downloading, for me anyway, if you can't plan a route first though.

 

[Stevie Mcluskey]

Flat as a pancake
@Stevie Mcluskey I feel your pain: I do Rutherglen to city, turn left out my scheme I could ride to East Kilbride via Fernhill ... but why should I?

Heh Heh I'm at the Westwood side so drop down on to Queensway across bypass and then Castlemilk. Mostly go home same way but up through Thorntonhall to avoid Queensway when its busy at tea time. 5.5 miles quick way in and about 7.5 Thorntonhall way home.
Havent worked out a flatter way