Strava and some crazy climbers
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Strava and some crazy climbers
So I've been contemplating getting an Edge 200/500 to keep up with my stats and noticed that Strava seems like a good place to keep my rides logged. While i was peeking around I noticed that there are a lot of people that ride with a lot of climbing. How do they manage to find time to put in those kind of numbers? Here's a shot of what I mean
![](https://img856.imageshack.us/img856/4811/kom.png)
Man I'd give anything to do just a percentage of what they do.
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Man I'd give anything to do just a percentage of what they do.
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Is that elevation gain for the past month...?
A typical ride in the mountains can easily be several thousand feet in elevation gain, even over the course of just a few hours. If you did that once a week (and it's typically a lot harder in the winter!) that would be in the 100,000 to 200,000 per year range. If you live in a hilly place, it's very easy to rack the sky miles up.
A typical ride in the mountains can easily be several thousand feet in elevation gain, even over the course of just a few hours. If you did that once a week (and it's typically a lot harder in the winter!) that would be in the 100,000 to 200,000 per year range. If you live in a hilly place, it's very easy to rack the sky miles up.
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There are some beasts on there! That Brian Toone fella' has over 1.7 million feet on the year thus far! That's insane! That means he's averaging 36k feet a week! I'm stoked if I can get 10k in one week...
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Steve Weixel, the first guy on the list, has a video blog that I sometimes check where he posts his rides. He is constantly posting mountain ascents and descents out in CA so I believe it. He has some pretty good videos on his site.
https://www.youtube.com/user/sweixel
https://www.youtube.com/user/sweixel
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Steve Weixel, the first guy on the list, has a video blog that I sometimes check where he posts his rides. He is constantly posting mountain ascents and descents out in CA so I believe it. He has some pretty good videos on his site.
https://www.youtube.com/user/sweixel
https://www.youtube.com/user/sweixel
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Even with an incline does it count as climbing? If your CG never goes up, did you do any extra work over a flat ride?
What amazes me on strava is seeing how fast some people have done some local climbs. There's a really steep hill on my commute that someone averaged 17.9mph on. I have no idea how that is possible.
What amazes me on strava is seeing how fast some people have done some local climbs. There's a really steep hill on my commute that someone averaged 17.9mph on. I have no idea how that is possible.
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So I've been contemplating getting an Edge 200/500 to keep up with my stats and noticed that Strava seems like a good place to keep my rides logged. While i was peeking around I noticed that there are a lot of people that ride with a lot of climbing. How do they manage to find time to put in those kind of numbers? Here's a shot of what I mean
![](https://img856.imageshack.us/img856/4811/kom.png)
Man I'd give anything to do just a percentage of what they do.
![](https://img856.imageshack.us/img856/4811/kom.png)
Man I'd give anything to do just a percentage of what they do.
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that was my first thought, but then I considered that on a treadmill walking, you might actually go up with a step and then slide back down with each step. I never really analyzed it. The difficulty of climbing is the conversion of mechanical energy into gravitational potential energy. I'm trying to figure out how that happens on a bike on an inclined treadmill.
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that was my first thought, but then I considered that on a treadmill walking, you might actually go up with a step and then slide back down with each step. I never really analyzed it. The difficulty of climbing is the conversion of mechanical energy into gravitational potential energy. I'm trying to figure out how that happens on a bike on an inclined treadmill.
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I guess they'll start to read "I support ***?" Or maybe people using images to say it will get banned, too?