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Vertical Challenge - Week 1
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 2006-07-05 9:33 AM |
Regular  89  Little Rock, AR |  Subject: Vertical Challenge - Week 1Just getting this thread on the board. Here's what bimactive.com has to say about Saturday's ride: Distance: 20.94 miles Total Uphill: +1312 ft Difficulty: 4.0 I'll go use this week's total as the goal to beat for the rest of the month. (20060701 Ride.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 20060701 Ride.jpg (9KB - 27 downloads) |
| 2006-07-05 1:42 PM in reply to: #474017 |
Coach 9167   Stairway to Seven | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 Im off to a slow starty, but Ive been working every day since I arrived. BIM says 793 feet, 11.26 miles at avg elevation 7663 feet. Difficulty 4.1. I've been on more difficult rides, I wonder if the difficulty gets down graded as more "high end" rides are posted? Anyway, here's the profile. There are no public rides for estes park posted in BIM yet, except this one, so if you are in the area, do a search on zip code 80517 for some good rides once I start getting them entered. TOtal for month 793 ft |
| 2006-07-06 8:25 AM in reply to: #474334 |
Regular 89 Little Rock, AR | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 That's some climb from miles 3-7! What was your top speed on the descent? I've made it to 42mph...but it took an hour after the ride to unclench my arse from the saddle. |
| 2006-07-06 11:03 AM in reply to: #474017 |
Extreme Veteran 455 Centennial, CO | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 I have one more day of this weeks bike rides - I'll wait until then to total my uphill total. But this is my toughest ride so far this week (and I'd say ever)
BIM gave it a 5 on the difficulty scale - total elevation gain 2034 feet. I felt this one for a couple of days.
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| 2006-07-06 11:19 AM in reply to: #474017 |
Science Nerd 28760  Redwood City, California | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 This is the ride I did on Monday. Biking again tomorrow, so I'll report my total distance then. This ride was 1,299 ft over 18.3 miles. BIM gave it a difficulty of 5 (I think). It was a fun ride.
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| 2006-07-06 12:12 PM in reply to: #474017 |
Veteran 301 Seattle | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 Ok, I've been out of town for a few days. I want to be part of this challenge. Is it too late? I can't find a thread with proposed goals/rules. Do we have teams? Or is it just individual? |
| 2006-07-06 1:17 PM in reply to: #475190 |
Regular 89 Little Rock, AR | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 devotchkatata - 2006-07-06 12:12 PM Ok, I've been out of town for a few days. I want to be part of this challenge. Is it too late? I can't find a thread with proposed goals/rules. Do we have teams? Or is it just individual? You're welcome to join. We are logging our routes on bimactive.com (requires free registration), which provides elevation, ride difficulty & the pretty graph. So far, making up the challenge rules as we go along and no teams. I'm open to suggestions. |
| 2006-07-06 3:07 PM in reply to: #475285 |
Veteran 301 Seattle | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 ArkyJones - 2006-07-06 12:17 PM devotchkatata - 2006-07-06 12:12 PM Ok, I've been out of town for a few days. I want to be part of this challenge. Is it too late? I can't find a thread with proposed goals/rules. Do we have teams? Or is it just individual? You're welcome to join. We are logging our routes on bimactive.com (requires free registration), which provides elevation, ride difficulty & the pretty graph. So far, making up the challenge rules as we go along and no teams. I'm open to suggestions. Just registered, cool website, I am bummed, I didn't know of it earlier. What are our weeks? Mon thru Sun? In that case my total for Week 1 is 0. I've climbed plenty last weekend, about 8,000 feet, just not on my bike - on my 2 feet  My bike commute route to work is over 1,600 ft total climbing I would like to propose a personal challenge of climbing 20,000 ft in the month of July. |
| 2006-07-07 10:26 AM in reply to: #475424 |
Regular 89 Little Rock, AR | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 devotchkatata - 2006-07-06 3:07 PM Just registered, cool website, I am bummed, I didn't know of it earlier. What are our weeks? Mon thru Sun? In that case my total for Week 1 is 0. I've climbed plenty last weekend, about 8,000 feet, just not on my bike - on my 2 feet My bike commute route to work is over 1,600 ft total climbing I would like to propose a personal challenge of climbing 20,000 ft in the month of July. Mon thru Sun is fine; not sure how to account for the 3 extra days in the month. Suggestions? 20K vertical for the month - nice! |
| 2006-07-07 1:29 PM in reply to: #474017 |
Extreme Veteran 455 Centennial, CO | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 Here's the ride for today:
Stats: 28.59 miles Total uphill: 1118 BIM difficulty - 4.7 Total elevation gain month to date: 4368
Hey...anyone know why this ride logs as 28.59 miles (according to Garmin and stats on BIM site), but when BIM graphs it...it looks like it was more than 30+ What's up with that?
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| 2006-07-07 1:36 PM in reply to: #474017 |
Veteran 301 Seattle | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 Ok, finally first ride of the month and a pretty flat one: 30 miles and approximately 700 ft of climbing BIMactive doesn't have the bike trails, which account for 75% of this ride, so I tried to create a route close to the one I rode, it came off 4 miles short the actual distance, so I figured, climbing might also be underestimated and rounded it up to 700ft from 672 (cherry creek.jpg) Attachments ---------------- cherry creek.jpg (9KB - 26 downloads) |
| 2006-07-08 9:29 AM in reply to: #476175 |
Coach 9167 Stairway to Seven | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 devotchkatata - 2006-07-07 12:36 PM Ok, finally first ride of the month and a pretty flat one: 30 miles and approximately 700 ft of climbing BIMactive doesn't have the bike trails, which account for 75% of this ride, so I tried to create a route close to the one I rode, it came off 4 miles short the actual distance, so I figured, climbing might also be underestimated and rounded it up to 700ft from 672 If you zoom in and use satellite view, sometime you can see all the trails depending on tree folliage. |
| 2006-07-08 4:42 PM in reply to: #474017 |
Veteran 254 San Jose, CA | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 BIM Stats: One-way distance - 15.83 mi. Total Uphill distance - 2752 ft Difficulty - 4.3 ----------------- Am quite a newb at hill climbing (biking in general) and felt good that I could complete this route due to the hills involved . But it may pale in comparison to some of the other rides that folks do BTW , has anyone figured out a better way to trace the route apart from clicking all along the way on the map ? I find that it can be a bit painful and error-prone since some routes have a lot of twists and turns . It would be cool , if you can tell BIM , that I'm on this road (route 9) for eg. and thats the route till I make a turn ... make sense ? (BiM_Image--Rt9toSkyline.jpg) Attachments ---------------- BiM_Image--Rt9toSkyline.jpg (8KB - 23 downloads) |
| 2006-07-09 9:30 AM in reply to: #474017 |
Regular 159 Philadelphia | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 Can I get in on some of this? |
| 2006-07-09 4:10 PM in reply to: #476549 |
Veteran 301 Seattle | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 AdventureBear - 2006-07-08 8:29 AM If you zoom in and use satellite view, sometime you can see all the trails depending on tree folliage. Thanks! I will try it next time I do this ride This weekend was a big one! Triple Bypass group ride: 120 miles, 3 Colorado mountain passes, 10,310 ft of climbing. This is hard enough, but due to pouring rain and unusual cold the whole way, this ride was even tougher than on any other year. Lots of people decided to not continue after the first pass (very smart ) I was pretty close to quitting too, but then I realized that if I bail, I will not meet 2 challenges - this one, and the 400 mile club as well, so thanks, BT for making me stronger! Data and image are not from BIMactive, but from the official web site of the ride. 11,010/20,000, nearly 9,000 feet to go to meet my goal Edited by devotchkatata 2006-07-09 4:12 PM (triple_elevation_smaller.gif) Attachments ---------------- triple_elevation_smaller.gif (15KB - 27 downloads) |
| 2006-07-11 8:55 AM in reply to: #474017 |
Regular 89 Little Rock, AR | Subject: My Totals for Week 1 |
| 2006-07-11 8:56 AM in reply to: #476953 |
Regular 89 Little Rock, AR | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 The Beast - 2006-07-09 9:30 AM Can I get in on some of this? All are welcome. Let me know if you have any questions on bimactive.com |
| 2006-07-11 1:02 PM in reply to: #478701 |
Regular 159 Philadelphia | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 Tolal uphill 4215 Distance 86.2 Difficulty 4.2 (BiM_Image.jpg) Attachments ---------------- BiM_Image.jpg (10KB - 26 downloads) |
| 2006-07-11 1:04 PM in reply to: #479133 |
Regular 159 Philadelphia | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 The Beast - 2006-07-11 1:02 PM Tolal uphill : 4215 Distance : 86.2 Difficulty : 4.2 |
| 2006-07-11 1:08 PM in reply to: #474017 |
Coach 9167 Stairway to Seven | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 THis is one way. Total gain for up was about 2400 feet, plus the 600 feet climb on the return trip makes a total of 3000 feet climbing. This was from Estes Park to Bear Lake. |
| 2006-07-11 8:15 PM in reply to: #474017 |
Veteran 301 Seattle | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 commute to work and back 40 miles 1,683 ft of climbing 12,693/20,000 so far, 7,307 to go Edited by devotchkatata 2006-07-11 8:20 PM (towork.jpg) Attachments ---------------- towork.jpg (11KB - 19 downloads) |
| 2006-07-11 11:14 PM in reply to: #474017 |
Coach 9167 Stairway to Seven | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 Pole Hill Mtn bike ride...1000 ft vertical. Map to come soon. I'm up to ~ 4500 feet for the month. |
| 2006-07-12 12:44 PM in reply to: #474017 |
Extreme Veteran 455 Centennial, CO | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 948 ft today - easy ride around Cherry Creek Rez (basically rode all over the place)
total for the month: 5156 feet so far. |
| 2006-07-13 8:29 PM in reply to: #474017 |
Veteran 250 | Subject: RE: Vertical Challenge - Week 1 Is anyone getting elevation updates from Bones In Motion? |
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