what is a 'hilly' ride for you?

I ride mostly in East Tennessee.  We have hills.  I go up 100-200 ft and down continuously.  I recored ascents.  like 1600 ft in my most common 12 mile ride.   I consider it hilly with lots of short steep grades.  8% qualifies as steep.  Anything over 13% really steep.   There is one hill that averages 16% and is more than a quarter mile.  It is a test of manhood.  I measure all this with an Edge 305 and its built-in barometric altimeter which is so-so on accuracy.   I consider the "smoothed" downloaded data better than the readings I see while riding.

TW

5,000+ ft is hilly for me.  Nearly all of my LSD rides exceed 7,000 ft.  One must be creative to keep the elevation under 2,500 ft in this area.  I track my elevation on my Garmin, and post it in my log, but it would be cool if BT had a way to track elevation like all of the other stats, such as miles ridden for the year, etc. 

As for a strictly "flat" route around here - I'm afraid that ~2,000 ft is about par for the course on the peninsula. 

30mph wind and let's not forget the chipseal!  That adds a few % grade easily!

I think the highway overpass down the road from me has about 20' elevation gain. 

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=343113

that is probably the toughest hill around were I'm from that I have seen.  You know its bad when you drive in your car and think about how hard or sweet this hill would be.   

5000' ?? Bwah, hahahah...

Around here, the biggest single 'hill' is approximately 1/3 of a mile long and rises all of 140 feet.  It's toughest right around the middle, where it has a whopping 6% grade.

A 'hill workout' means lots of repeats.

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I think the highway overpass down the road from me has about 20' elevation gain. 

That wouldn't be Bear Wallow hill would it?  That hill is fun.

Ever since I left Indiana, I have not ridden on flat ground.  Every ride I do has something 10% or larger.  I also figured out they lable hills wrong around here.  Coming back into town today I was going down a hill that I would guess was 10%.  They labeled it as 6% on the sign warning trucks.  6% grade is almost railroad grade (5%).  The marathon I ran was on old rail bed, and up hill the first half.  There is no way that hill was only 1% steeper then that rail bed.

I would call this a "hilly" ride.  www.bicyclerace.com  I am in no shape to ride it yet but I did climb to the 14,135ft summit a few years ago from the Mt. Goliath area.  It starts to get painfull after 11,000 feet and everything goes in slow motion after about 13,500.

  As you can see the easy way to the top of Mt. Evans is to drive.

Have any of you tried bimactive.com ? There aren't a lot of routes yet , not as many as KLIMB but it is quite intuitive , uses Google Maps and stores your routes for future ref.

I like it and the folks on the Vertical challenge thread used to use this regularly (not sure now) .

Same here - flat as the prarie plains - the best I can muster is a 40k route that takes me over 3 overpasses. 

i just ran  ride that had 6300 feet of climbing in 62 miles.  This was sunday ride after. 

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=155675

Hilly for me is repeats over an intracoastal drawbridge.  Elevation is precisely that of a pimple.

Sharon