Came across this challenge - Everesting
Climbing the height of Everest (8848m) in one ride on the same hill.
108 laps of Arthur's Seat anyone?
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Anyone up for a challenge? Everesting
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Posted 10 years ago #
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108 laps of Arthur's Seat anyone?
For some reason they don't allow loops. It has to be up & down
Posted 10 years ago # -
Alternatives are
136 Kaimes Road
125 Hillend (ski centre)
123 Kingscavil Hill
104 KirkgateI think it is a very very long way any which way you try it.
It's even 12 Bealach Na Ba or 9 Alpe D'huez
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I've had my eye on this for a while. Not been able to settle on a hill that'll be sensible. I reckon something 500m climbing is the best bet...
Posted 10 years ago # -
The egregious knobbiness of that site is almost beyond that of the Velominati.
Abercorn Road?Posted 10 years ago # -
It does say that one way roads are acceptable as loops, so Arthur's Seat would still be ok.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Getting the gradient right is important. Too steep and it will be difficult to maintain pace, too shallow and progess to the target height will be too slow.
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Cairn o'mount in Aberdeenshire would be a good one, though obviously you would have to get there? Steep one side, gradual the other? Bo'ness to Braehead, must check how many feet that is. Would not qualify as rules do not allow an actual route as such, just up and down the same hill for approx twenty hours. Popular in Australia. Started by ancestor of first person up Everest.? Though he didn't get back down. One UK rider in the hall of fame used edge hill.
I like one of the rules which says Ask your mum. Maybe beech avenue from thriepmuir up to Bavelaw castle? The owner of the castle might object. Say it is 200ft of climb, just guessing, maybe too steep to do it 150 times ?more like 100 ft 300 times etc
Does the world need another blokeist pointless completion endurance strava based competition? Aw c'mon Gembo, it is just a bit of fun, yeah but look at all those dorks tanking it on towpath or NEPN to beat the strava time.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Sounds mind-numbingly tedious. Best bet probably a 5%er on a tailwind day? The Granites climb would at least give you a view to look at. 68 climbs of that would just about do it.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Lowther Hill from Wanlockhead would need about 31 ascents, about 250km distance.
Posted 10 years ago # -
How many Innocent tunnels?*
* answer = ~465
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Not enough cake in the world to get me to do that!
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What would be the chances of going through the innocent tunnel over 900 times without strava failing on you?
I wonder what the dog walkers would make of a rider doing The Brae Park Road climb 553 times.
161 Wilderness Wood Ascents or 277 Widowmakers sounds more attractive to me.Posted 10 years ago # -
Looks like someone has done the first Everesting near Edinburgh.
Using the road up to Castlelaw Fort 111 times.
Other Scottish successes are 13 Bealach Na Ba, 42 Crow Rd & 53 Harden's Hill (Duns)
Posted 9 years ago # -
Jens Voight is today attempting to Everest on a 90m high hill on Berlin.
So that'll be nearly a hundred repeats. Oh and it snowed overnight...
https://www.ammado.com/community/jensieeverestchallenge
More on twitter @thejensie
Posted 7 years ago # -
The hill Jens has chosen, the Teufelsberg, is the pile of rubble that was made from the remains of Berlin after the war. Underneath it are the remains of what was to have been an elite Nazi college.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I've just read that article. It's great. I particularly like the quotes:
Connie Carpenter-Phinney... said something along the lines of: “It’s a privilege to be able to choose how you suffer – not everyone has that choice. Some people have their pain forced upon them.”
and
I didn’t take up cycling to just watch other people take on stupid challenges and consider myself inferior. If there are stupid challenges out there, I want to be doing them too! Yes, it’s fun and inspiring to watch great sporting performances, but they inspire me to try to do likewise – not spend three weeks on the sofa watching on. Beating myself up against my limits until I feel suffering is a privilege, it makes me feel happy and in a strange way, more alive. And I strongly believe that this desire for challenge is just as strong in women as in men – it’s just less commonly portrayed as a societal norm.
(emphasis mine)That’s why sport is empowering, maybe even more so for women than men. Yes, cycling needs to be accessible to beginners – but not all female cyclists are beginners, and strong women don’t want to be patronised with condescendingly easy rides. They also want to challenge themselves.
Posted 4 years ago # -
That was a bit to epic to read all of it!
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If we’re being totally reductionist, one could say that so is any kind of bike riding that’s not for useful mobility or transport of goods. Leisure cycling is just a waste of energy and an extra emission of CO2.
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Yes
But
That assumes transport of goods is all ok!
More importantly (as ‘we’ understand) “Leisure cycling” is about so many things - not least life enhancing physical benefits and massive mental health ones.
Posted 4 years ago # -
strong women don’t want to be patronised with condescendingly easy rides
I strongly believe that women's events should be organised by women for women and we should keep our testicular distance.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Puts my theee reps of Beech Avenue into perspective
Posted 4 years ago # -
I did a week long race through through the Alps a few years ago that Emma was also on.
I wouldn't be appropriate to say that I raced "with her" as by the time I finished each day she was already back and showered having run a half marathon as well as the bike ride.
Some athlete...
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I've followed Emma Pooley on Strava for a few years now- this is typical of her mad cap approach. Also shares some amazing photos of the Swiss Alps - not quite in Robert Gesink league but runs him closer than most.
Think the blog didn't say that the Mcdonalds she had to celebrate was her first in years. Strava activity here
She "recovered" by running a 5km before breakfast the next morning.
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I did some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations and marvelled at her VAM [metres climber per hour] as well as her endurance. I realised I was disappointed to have missed a chance to tackle the record myself – because there was no way I could beat that time. Then I wondered where the hell that thought even came from, since I never wanted to do an Everesting anyway!
But by then it was too late. The seed was planted, and it grew fast. I wanted to see if I could do it and if I could even get close to that time.
She'd fit in well here, I think.
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She "recovered" by running a 5km before breakfast the next morning.
I'm absolutely not in Emma Pooley's class, but that sounds like a very sensible recovery activity. She's raced triathlons as well as racing as a cyclist.
Posted 4 years ago # -
She was a great addition to GCN. While some of current and former presenters are also medal-winning athletes, she's got the brains some of them may not be quite so well-endowed with...
Posted 4 years ago # -
An attempt is being made at Everesting Kingscavil this weekend.
Good luck Alex Ball.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Good luck! Riding some of those climbs more than once in a lifetime but consecutively in the same day takes a certain breed I think. Faside Castle would be a pretty decent Everesting hill I reckon.
Posted 3 years ago # -
He is going up and down Kingscavil 122 times? Is that right? Incredible.
With Strava have they loosened the Everesting rules? Used to be closed a loop you had to employ or maybe that was just to relieve the tedium? Emma Pooley also just went up and down the Col.
How many reps of Beech Avenue would it be to count as Everest?
Posted 3 years ago #
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