Climbing Club - May Goals

[maillotpois]

Okey dokey - looks like I will be at 33,650 for the month as I don't expect to do much more outside riding this week.

Lovely!

[Shiraz]

Hi Everyone,
This is the first time I have set climing goals so I had a lot to learn. I had set out to make two climbs up the face of Buckskin and ride Garden Creek Loop. Well so far I did ride Buckskin (back side, longer ride) once and have not ridden Garden Creek. But I am learning how to use my garmin and have climbed 21, 000 feet so far. I hope to ride Garden Creek this week. It a beast!!!
I really had a great week of riding. I rode 138 miles this week but more flat than hills. Wed I rode 50, Saturday I rode 65 miles and a few other short rides. Hopefully June will have more climbing!!

[SadieKate]

21,00 just for the month? That's great. SE Idaho doesn't have gigantic long climbs, so you must have been really focused.

This entire week was spent completely on the flat but I still managed managed 15,121 for the month which is 10% over my goal.

[maillotpois]

SK you're going to need to add another moon to your goal - or at last a large asteroid...

[SadieKate]

Um, why? I still have almost 80,000 to meet my annual goal. Even at 15,000' a month, that's not easy around these laser-leveled fields.

[maillotpois]

You're just doing really well. I am sure you can fit in some spatial errata like an asteroid. But I know towards the end of the year sometimes it gets harder to fit in long rides or travel.

[SadieKate]

I'm usually the spatial errata.

June is my big month, targeting 20,000. With the Telluride to Moab tour this shoud be a piece o' cake, but all the estimates from 1998 (the year we rode this tour) were before the days of cheap barometric altimeters.

[jobob]

Goodness, I climbed about 22,000 ft. this month - I had no idea it was going to be that much.

The Wine Country "1.1 metric" was about 4000 ft, the ride up Mt. Hamilton with Cindysue & the Lunachix was about 5000. Yesterday I rode the Three Bears with Z, Melissa, Nicole & Kim, and then two-thirds of Team Darwin Award (aka_kim & I) continued on over to Moraga, up Pinehurst to Skyline & Grizzly Peak Blvd. and back down Wildcat Canyon and San Pablo Dam Road to El Sobrante, which worked out to about 3500 feet all told (tho it felt like more ) Those plus a lot of other rides in the 1000-3000 ft range really added up.

[Starfish]

Guess I never officially reported in my May numbers...just over 14,000, so I hit my goal. Woohoo!

[SadieKate]

easterbird, I believe the VDO has a barometric altimeter. This is the best for determining actually climbing gains/losses. See my notes above about GPS-only units (such as the Edge 205 and the Forerunners as opposed to an Edge 305). As an example, yellow used a Forerunner 305 for the Little Red Riding Hood which reported about 2,500' climbing. My Ciclo reported 1,089 for the same course. Since this course is very, very flat, the 1,089 is the more accurate number.

Barometic altimeters work using air pressue so as weather patterns change the pressure changes. Just during the course of a day pressure will change. I think that 20-50' is pretty normal.

Just a note though for anyone thinking about GPS based computers, the GPS in yellow's Forerunner is far more accurate for distance and speed than the cycling computers based on wheelcircumference.