Strava climbing challenge May.

I’m assuming people are using the Strava elevation correction or the phone app, right?

Just joined the Giro one, and I’m at 32% done, but I could bag a lot more metres if I went back and corrected the previous rides. As I’m unlikely to trouble the top 1000, I might just try it ‘au natural’ (Garmin 520 btw)

Quick totting up gives me 1014m to average for the next 16 days which is about what I would be doing anyway…

What ever the generic setting is bob.

Using an edge 500

Did 2900m yesterday

On 7500m total

Last time I did Rapha Rising, I found myself with something like 2500m to climb on the last day and only a couple of hours free. So I went back and corrected the elevations and found I didn’t need to do the last ride at all (which I did anyway, head hanging in shame…)

I do the challenges using my garmin. Last time I tried the elevation correction on strava it knocked 100m off my 400m ride. Won’t be doing that again.

I have entered the Everest challenge this month but life will be getting in the way of me being able to complete it, I suspect. Managed 7300m last month, which still wouldn’t be enough.

Just finished the Giro Climbing Challenge today – I’m a bit nailed, but overall it wasn’t as bad as I’d feared, even for a very average rider like me. Mixed up road, cross and mountain bike miles, took things steady, enjoyed the sunshine and just used it as a not too serious way of getting out more on the bike. Not sure I’d have managed it if the weather hadn’t been so nice. Helps that I live on the edge of the Peak and work from home.

Anyone else having a crack at it?

I’ve completed the Everest Challenge today (Mountain Bike only)

It’s not that hard as there’s been lots of dry days when I’ve been able to ride, but if they increase it for the Summer months it would be hard to hit it

Should finish the giro one in a couple of days, which isn’t bad going since I joined it late then lost three days of riding through mundane stuff.
I average, it seems, 1400-1500m a day anyway over 5 commutes and 6 training rides a week, so haven’t done anything special except going out in the rain today when my hangover told me to stay in bed…

If I’d used the Strava app I would have already finished 😈

Strangely enough the target for June has gone down, to only 6000 meters.

I expected it to go up as we headed into warmer months.

Managed 12500m which I’m happy with. Work has got in the way this week and I’ll not get a chance to rack up anymore tomorrow.

I have been thinking about some yearly markers, for instance Baumgartners freefall height, highest aircraft flight, International space station etc. Any other suggestions welcome.

Completed it today. I only had 400m to do but 3 times up Cairngorm was more than enough 🙂

I haven’t even attempted to do the Giro 20,000m one but I’m well on course for the Everest one.
1200m to go in 2 days. Should finish it off tomorrow. So long as I do it I’m not bothered about whether it’s 2m over or 10,000m over!

Completed the Everest challenge yesterday and passsed the 10000m mark today.

Cog velo are trying to get to the moon in a day – as a collective effort for charity

Completed it (the Everest one) yesterday but I’ve not ridden for 13 days this month so just bimbling along really. A normal month of commuting gives me over 7000 metres of ascent so for round here (twixt Dales and Pennines) it’s not that hard a challenge.

Also completed the Everest one as well. Set off well by doing the Fred Whitton but although I’ve done plenty of biking I’ve not done much climbing. Made up for it today though with a 160 miler around Lancashire and Yorkshire with 11500ft of climbing. Shagged now though 😐

Well still doing MTB only here and had a week off so only up there at 7000m as of last night. Hopefully a couple of rides today and Tuesday will get me up there, if not the lads on the Tuesday night ride might hate me…

Finished the Everest one a couple of weeks ago, up to about 17000 meters and riding today and maybe tomorrow as well. Probably the most I’ve managed in a month and still not overly close to the Giro challenge!

Well the weather came in so fell short today… Need to find 1050m on Monday/Tuesday wouldn’t normally be that bad but this week was 3000m/100km on the mountain bike

I’m assuming most that have knocked it off easily have a fair bit of road riding in there?

Only two road rides for me (one yesterday when I was still 400m short).

Well I did do 254km / 2500m climbing on the one saturday. – the only time my road bikes been out this year.

Mostly though my half on half off road commute being 300m climb each way helped

Sitting at about 11500m for may

The Giro one finishes today, I scraped into the top 200 but expect to tumble further into mid-table obscurity as the US etc uploads. It was one of the harder ones for sure, especially since I didn’t join the challenge until the 2nd week, and haven’t really done any climbing I wouldn’t have done anyway.

A mate did 10,000m in one ride in the Pyrenees yesterday, 9 HC or 1º cols…

All mountain bike for me, no road.

I’m assuming most that have knocked it off easily have a fair bit of road riding in there?

I did a lot of it on a cross bike, just mixing things up, a few proper road rides and a few mountain bike outings. Finished it – the Giro one – about a week ago and then backed off an had an easy week, so I’ve only done around 24,000m total.

I wouldn’t, in all honesty, had done it if the weather hadn’t been so good. Lots of dry miles and sunshine 🙂

Mostly MTB for me plus a few commutes. Did the #jennride which was 3500m in itself.

My wife finished the giro one yesterday. Just added another 2000m today as well. She’d currently in the top 50 in the world on the women’s leaderboard.

Some of those stats up there are mightily impressive! I managed 23,694m on the Giro, all ridden on MTB. Should just make 30,000m for probably my biggest month ever climbing wise. Hong Kong, if you’re interested.

Well I did 2500m today on the CX which will have finished it off nicely. 🙂 And it means I can have tomorrow off.

Is there a delay in strava adding your ride to the challenge? Did a ride today, its on strava but the elevation is not included in the challenge total!!

Since there was a mention of the June challenge being a bit low, is there any interest in a 10k challenge? Either via a thread or a Stw strava group?

Just did my last ride this month, as I’m going away tomorrow, and I’m 150 metres short. D’oh! 😡

Play the strava elevation correction lottery? You could win…

I went out again today, just a short recovery spin on the road bike. Wasn’t even going to bother Strava-ing it but I’ve just uploaded it to find it’s taken me over 10,000m so I’ll leave it there!

6000m next month should be a doddle, I’m surprised they’ve put in such a low target for June.
Maybe they’ll offset it by giving an outrageous target in July to sit alongside the Tour…

June is in line with how it’s been rising this year, this was linked to the 2 guys stravaing everest this month. Just need 1000m tonight might have to go the long way home from the night ride

Was a 1000m short after coupke of busy weeks work wise so today rode in to work taking on the viscious biggar bank in a head wind, then this afternoon battled into the headwind once more to get to Grasmere and over the savage red bank back down to ambleside to pick up sustrans37 for the dig on that before climbing up to the drunken duck from skelwith, a veritable smorgasbord of unnecessary suffering. Checked my phone at the drunken duck to see if I had time to drop to hawkshead just to be sure. Strava had stopped after 3 seconds. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!

I will take my 10 mountain bike rides for 50% total 4,424 metres given I am just returning from a long period off with illness and injuries, it is an intresting odd motivation if I am honest…..signed up for June challenge

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I hope they ramp it up for July, planning to ride Luchon-Bayonne on the 2nd (320km x 5500m), would be a pretty useful headstart!

Strava had stopped after 3 seconds.

Strava app is cheating so you got what you deserve 😉

That’s cold, man. Cold.

I hope they ramp it up for July, planning to ride Luchon-Bayonne on the 2nd (320km x 5500m)

Bit of a long way to get the climbing in 😉 last week was 100kmx3000m of MTB fun.
It’s a great motivation for me really, keeps me ticking over now winter is here, I was going to go for it yesterday but I left it all too late for one night ride where I couldn’t feel my fingers