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Rapha Rising – Ring of Death

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  • July 13, 2012 at 12:45 pm #16317
    farrell

    Is anybody contemplating attempting this challenge?
    http://www.rapha.cc/rapha-rising-the-circle-of-death

    I can’t even begin to think how you would even fit that amount of climbing in, unless you dedicated your days to it. I thought about sticking in a few laps of a hill that I ride up most days (Lancashire Hill in Stockport) but after a quick look on bikehike it appears that I’d need to cycle it almost 250 times.

    Does Strava actually monitor your climbing or does it just give you your highest point? As in if you climbed the same hill that had an elevation of 100m five times would it give you a total climbing of 500m or would it just register it as 100m being your biggest climb?

    Am I right in thinking that a hill that rises 100m in 1km would be the same reward as riding a hill that raises 100m over 5km? This is pretty basic stuff but I’m struggling to visualise how much climbing this really is.

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  • July 15, 2012 at 9:00 pm #691397
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    SideBurn

    Have just done 2048 metres
    Have just done 2048 metres today in 138km; just come to Devon! Working on wednesday 🙁 Hopefully the weather will be kind; good luck! And yes if you ride up the same 100metre hill ten times it will give you 1000metres. Not sure how you could ‘visualise’ a climb; I think if you did visualise hills you would take up Darts or Snooker or something.

    July 15, 2012 at 6:31 pm #691395
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    zzgavin

    managed 10% of the total
    managed 10% of the total today, it’ll be hard to get near that total from London

    July 15, 2012 at 4:35 pm #691393
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    bashthebox

    It’s hard doing from London –
    It’s hard doing from London – all the surrounding hills are short and sharp, real leg killers at 10-20% for 100,150m max. So you get wiped out rather fast.

    Anyway, day 1 down, 1000m done. There’s no way I’ll get close to 6800m unfortunately.

    July 14, 2012 at 8:27 pm #691391
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    zzgavin

    I’m trying to do this, based
    I’m trying to do this, based in London and out to Essex, 300ft is a big climb =)

    July 13, 2012 at 1:47 pm #691389
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    Saintyl

    Yes i’m giving it a go, have
    Yes i’m giving it a go, have a few hills around the lakes to use plus the Pennines.

    My local climb up to Hartside and back is just over 600m total climbing for 30k of distance, add a couple of longer rides with 2000m of ascent and job done 🙂

    The real bonus is we get a week to do it not 5 hours :O

    July 13, 2012 at 1:41 pm #691387
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    Darthshearer

    Yep, I have 3 days booked off
    Yep, I have 3 days booked off and two of them I will be extending a couple of rides I had planned 🙂 The other, watching Le Tour 🙂

    July 13, 2012 at 1:30 pm #691385
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    Gkam84

    Infact, make the loop
    Infact, make the loop slightly longer and you can have 2701 in a day (if advertised highs are correct)

    July 13, 2012 at 1:22 pm #691383
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    Gkam84

    IF anyone wants to come give
    IF anyone wants to come give it a try up here, A loop of around 80 miles will give you 2000 odd metres 😉

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