That thread at the end of last year prompted me to look at strava and see that I did about 60km of ascent last year and I was idly thinking that it would be nice to see if I could do a bit more. Some very questionable arithmetic got me to the challenge of 8998m per month.
I've been nowhere near... January was around 3k and February similar. Looking at the rolling last month I'm at about 6,000m but I'm completely shattered. Niggly knee pains and lack of sleep due to tiredness ( don't ask, hystamines)
Taking a step back, it needs a proper big day ride every weekend followed by a serious effort one evening after work. Which is easy enough some weeks, but seems impossible as an average.
Anyway, enough whining from me. Tell me what I'm missing and whether you manage that goal...
Yep. I'll be ticking off March tomorrow or Saturday before work.
Yep. I’ll be ticking off March tomorrow or Saturday before work.
Good work!
How, what, where?
1491m climbing on Monday with a high camp for the win.
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Taking a step back, it needs a proper big day ride every weekend followed by a serious effort one evening after work.
Even at that, given the riding I do, I'd end up doing 6km of "Road" climbing and 3km of off road. Sure I'd be on a mountain bike but a lot of the up on any given ride tends to be hard surfaces simply because if I don't use them to get up the hill, I'll be using them to come back down.
Just local riding, Brecon Beacons. One biggish ride a week, pre-work gravel forestry track loops. Week long trip planned next week out of the front door so long as the weather stays good.
pre-work gravel forestry track loops.
Yep, I was thinking that I should maybe change my target riding a bit if I want to achieve my random goal ( and have functioning knees at the end of the year)
I seem to average about 6-8000m of ascent per month. More in the summer, cos riding more.
A decent length MTB ride around here (East Devon) will have 1000m+
Biggest ride I did last year - 100 miler over Exmoor - was 3500m of ascent.
Yes, but I'm on a ebike so cheating! Commuting by bike really ups the numbers.
I'm more in the Mont Blanc kinda range.
Pretty much manage it every month, helps that I live in a hilly area though and do sign up to the Strava challenge to keep an eye on it.
Out a couple of times in the week plus a weekend day, luckily I've a flexible job so can start early (but then so could my colleagues if they could be ar5ed) and can manage a lunch ride or two. Also because I start early means I can be out earlier on an evening, so that's another option.
Currently sat at just over 5000m, but I'm out tonight and all day Sunday.
One thing that helps is I've 3 totally different bikes (FS, HT and gravel), which means I pick the bike for the route I want to do - my lunch rides are split between gravel & HT, and if the weather is pants, I just ride the back roads/lanes.
Living in south Manchester where it's flatter than a witches tit, I have to drive out to the Peak or Calderdale way to get some serious hills. So Everesting is out.... I aim to overcome Disappointment Peak instead and anything over 3500m is a win
I’m somewhere thereabouts, all onMtb, probably 65% of it on my Airdrop Bitmap, the rest on the Geometron.
Mostly local stuff from home (Bournemouth/Poole), a lot over the Purbecks, Puddletown, Okeford hill, other stuff including South Wales, QECP, etc.
According to Strava, going back 12 months.
Feb, 24,804’ in 277 miles
Jan, 27,505’ in 315 miles
Dec, 27,684 in 295 miles
Nov, 21,905 in 238 miles
Oct, 19,623 in 261 miles
Sept, 9,650’ in 175 miles (first ride back 13th)
Aug, 0’ in 0 miles (elbow nailed back on)
July, 23,397’ in 220 miles. (Snapped my elbow off on the 21st, on the 3rd run on day 1 of a 4 day trip at Ft Bill)
June, 59,491’ in 393 miles. (2,500’ on the Gondola at Ft Bill)
May, 37,600’ in 308 miles
April, 30,706 in 308 miles
March, 32,232’ in 375 miles.
Living in Saddleworth during the spring of 2019 I started these 7500m for fun every month until jan2022 ive completed it and some wet months its been a pain in the rear. Last month I thought sod it and ended up at 6000ish m of climbing. To date im at 5000m this month and plan starting it again for the year. A normal ride for me around here is around 2000feet or 600m , add a Lakes day which normally ends up around 4500feet /1300m so no reason why i shouldnt carry on besides what goes up and all that ...
I did 4000 metres climb commuting in two days this week … not offroad, but on an mtb so maybe worth half points 😂
Looks like my normal monthly off-road climbing is about half an Everest.
Can we please agree on units? And can we all agree that metres are clearly superior? Thanks.
Shouldn't be hard. According to RWGPS I do 490 metres every day commuting so x that by 20 .Plus evening rides.
Feet are clearly superior. Normal people wear size 8 wellies which are a foot long. Anyone else is a freak
I reckon my size 14s must've contributed to getting my first Everest of March racked up today, the 18th. With next week off work and a great forecast, do I go for two this month...?
I averaged 5,500 metres over 250 miles per month in Jan and in Feb, on track for a little more in March, which should hopefully be doable with improved weather in the coming weeks! That's based on a night ride midweek and longer ride on the weekends mostly South Downs and some Surrey Hills
1200km YTD and only 19.6km elev, quite behind target of 104km for year, 2km a week.
off to lakes tomorrow, that'll be biggest week of the year, circa 3.3km for week
includes tarmac though and gravel bike 60% of time..
9k metres a month on a mtb is big going
I don't think I can separate my on and off-road climbing. Quite a few of mountain bike loops includes climbs on tarmac. Quite a few of my cross bike, erm, 'gravel' loops include off-road climbs. So far this year I'm on 40,000m of climbing, but most of it on-road than off I think. Who cares anyway? It's just an arbitrary figure based on the height of the world's highest adventure tourism destination 😉
I'm just happy to be riding up or down 🙂