Climbing Club - May Goals

[maillotpois]

6158 feet in 42 miles is a lot if VERY steep long climbing. The Death Ride in the CA Sierra Nevada mountains is "only" 14,000 feet in 130 miles (to extend that logic, DMD is 19,000 feet in 210 miles). I try to plan my team's hard training rides so the climbing is a factor of ten of the mileage - 7000 feet for 70 miles, 8000 feet for 80 miles, etc. Those are HARD rides.

I'm wondering if there is something funky going on with your altimeter? GPS based altimeters give notoriously high readings. The barometric altimeters are more accurate than the GPS.

[Shiraz]

Very interesting. I did some checking on motion base and looked up Buckskin/ Inkom loop and indeed the elevation gain was 2592 ft over 37 miles. So my garmin is counting at least 2-3 times. So until I can figure this out can I look at the elevation at the start of your ride and the high point and figure out the difference to get a better idea? Thanks for helping me better understand and learn how the Garmin works.

So truely my climbing for May is really around 9 to 10,000ft

[maillotpois]

What sort of Garmin do you have?? 2 - 3 times increase is huge, and way beyond what you sometimes see with a gpos based altimeter. I wonder if there is a product problem. You should call Garmin. From what I hear, their support is very good. Even Motion Based adjusts elevations high, so if you are 2 - 3 times Motion Based, there's a real problem with your unit.

[Fredwina]

I think I need to get more realistic with my goals
May totals; 28,806