Quote Originally Posted by Ticia View Post
Brandy, That is a LOT of climbing! Wow. I have a question. How do you figure the Grade of a hill if you have the elevation and the mileage? I know there must be some equation. I'm not understanding. There is this huge hill I see ppl training on that is right down the road from me and it is 717ft of elev. gain in .86 miles The one I finally did last year that I was so proud of was 306 ft in 1.06 miles. So how do I know the grade?
TICIA!!! Good to see you here! It's a good amount of climbing for the limited amount of time that I have to ride on Mon/Tues mornings.

There's a Percent Grade Calculator on the bottom of the page in the links section on George's website.
http://epictrain.com/links.html

Yes, your hill is steep! Around 15.8% average grade. Your other hill is about 5.46% average grade...pretty similar, though shorter in length than Newport Coast.