Originally Posted by
seypat
You need to give us more info/backstory. Are you a fast twitcher or slow twitcher? Masher or spinner? Seated climber or stander? What kind of climbs? Short and steep or long grinders?
Don't know about slow vs fast twitcher, but the ride was in the Santa Monica Mountains. First hill was Latigo Canyon, a 2,000 foot, 5% average climb with many sections >8%. Later climbs were mellower, but some were sustained, long pulls with flatter grades. Drank about 2-1/2, 22oz bottles of water enroute to the rest stop. One of the bottles had Skatch (powder with electrolytes.)
I'm not a super aggressive rider, but I do a lot of long endurance rides. I've done four centuries in the past year, one of which was 9k feet (destroyed me, but didn't lead to cramps). I'm also fairly lightweight (<140 lbs), so that may have had something to do with it.