Rapha Rising - Ring of Death

Road CC should set up a club on Strava

@SideBurns
Strava I found is very straight forward.
Just upload your route and it should pick up segments that others have already done and compare there time to yours.

Can't vouch for the forerunner but it should be compatible. My Edge 200 is.

It can be really addictive. Enjoy

I have signed up to Strava; there are quite a few routes near me. I have discovered what the mysterious green paint is on a cycle track near me; a 1500m segment! With the name of a local runner that I have raced against recently. There is also a bike segment to the top of a hill on my cycle to work route. But how do you do it? I have a Garmin Forerunner 301 is this compatible? Do you just upload a route and the Strava picks up any segments that you have done? Or do you have to work out where the start and finish is and just upload that?

Interesting, that Strava ride was linked to on my local road club's site, so he's kind of infamous now I guess!

Do we have a Road CC group on Strava?

You know what I said about come to Devon _Karlos_? This chap obviously saw my suggestion!! Some of the leg breakers I was refering to above are on his route. But 8793m in one day? I have just had another look at his route and I was out on the same roads on the same day! This was the ride I mentioned above; I may have seen him doing it! It was quite windy up there on Exmoor

I'm at 67% with 3 days left. However with 1 rest day then a 2 day stage race on rolling terrian I'm probably going to miss it

This guy did it in one ride!!!

http://app.strava.com/rides/13491877

christ, bad timing. Did 5100 in a day last month.
Right then. Hill reps on the Isle of Skye it is.

I'm trying to do it, have been banking a quick 25 mile - 700m ride each evening, hoping to get to 4000m and then 2 big rides at the weekend should hopefully get me there.

100km Black Rat is 2500m climbed and 100mile is 3500m (I live on the route!) you know you have done a ride!

russyparkin; I am up north! To the west of Exmoor. If I have excess testosterone I follow the north Devon Black Rat route along the coast which is a series of leg breakers. Anywhere on Exmoor is spectacular and spectacularly painful... eventually

I managed 1,500m+ of climbing with 100km off the back of bath to the mendips. no way i'm going to get nearly 7,000 ticked off in a week tho

I did 43 miles in Wales yesterday with, according to Strava, 2,545 of climbing. Our club run regularly clocks around 3k feet, with the highest one I've done at 3,888 feet.

6,188m (the amount of climbing in the circle of death) is 20,301 feet. Even if I had a week off, I'd need some serious preparation to ride these distances/climbs on consecutive days to hit the target.

So, no!

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.

managed 10% of the total today, it'll be hard to get near that total 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.

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

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

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

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

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