A Century With 13,584 Feet of Climbing

[smilingcat]

I'm generally optimistic and love to encourage others to push themselves a bit. However, you are asking several questions and stated few things which makes me wonder.

Okay so I looked at the topo, you'll be riding from mile 30 to mile 60 at above 8,000 feet. and about 20miles of it will be above 10,000 feet.

If you never ridden a hilly century, I can't recommend it.
If you haven't regularly ridden at the altitude, I wouldn't recommend it.

But if you have done both then you probably know whether you can do it or not. And since none of the experienced riders with hill climbs have ridden with you, we really can't gauge your fitness level, endourance. The ride will be very dry and very hot. It should be a very pretty ride though.

So I would suggest you think it over carefully of what you are really capable of doing. This isn't the time of bravado, its time to think realistically.

My opinion is that of ambivalence because I really can't say yes or no to you. Just my two cents from what you said about yourself and the way it was posted.

If you live in SLC area, have you tried the Emmigration Canyon to East Lake?? training route. If you can do that every weekend, then you might give this ride a try. This is the route I use to train when I visit my sis and my bro-in-law. He kicks my butt up the canyon.

smilingcat

[RoadRaven]

If you never ridden a hilly century, I can't recommend it.
If you haven't regularly ridden at the altitude, I wouldn't recommend it.

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So I would suggest you think it over carefully of what you are really capable of doing. This isn't the time of bravado, its time to think realistically.

smilingcat

Ah... Cat said it much more specifically and succintly than me... I was trying to say if you had done similar rides then go for it... but only if you had...
Or if you had time to train up to this type of ride

Thanks Cat

[ibcycling]

Morning Alex. Wow, looks like a challenging ride. My legs hurt just looking at it. LOL I have no advice one way or the other being a newbie but I was curious what bike computer you have. I don't have one yet and am trying to decide how many features I want on it. Knowing how much I climb would be great! I don't seem to have an "eye" for how steep a hill is but I guess that will come with time.

Thanks,
Lora