Motion Based Question

[Veronica]

Hey, Ms Teacher. Did you do the math? How do you use your momentum to "roll" over a grade that is well over three times the length of a football field. Nothing is shorter than .2 miles or 1,056 ft or 352 yards or 3.52 football fields.

No, I did not do the math.

It's all in you definition of hill. If it takes me just a few minutes to get over it, it's not a hill. My 27 mile ride with 1,280 feet of climbing gets labeled rollers, not hills because none of the hills take very long to get over. Not even the ones that require me to go into my small ring.

Veronica

[OakLeaf]

okay - we've wrangled over what's a "hill" before (I think probably NOBODY except for Alpinerabbit would claim they ride "mountains" - don't we have anyone in the Rockies?)

But now the gauntlet's laid down.

V., come over here and ride the Columbus Fall Challenge next year (provided they hold it - they've had organization trouble the last couple of years). I'll train and do it with you. Similar type of terrain to the Hilly, but about 1.5x more climbing per mile, and 110+/- miles each day. That's a ride I was afraid to do when I was racing and I'm still a little afraid now that I'm braver but not nearly as strong. But I challenge you to do that ride next year and THEN say they're not hills.

[Veronica]

Sorry, I can't travel to Columbus Ohio in the middle of the school year.

You could come do DMD with me in April.



I'm hoping to finish this time. In 2006 I got to the top of Mt. Hamilton and my lower back quit. It's a lot stronger now.

In this profile - Diablo and Hamilton are mountains, all the rest are hills. Of course others opinions will vary. I do label this ride steep at BJ because of the nature of the hills.

Veronica

[OakLeaf]

April? 105-mile-a-day, nice and flat TOSRV is too much for May for those who don't winter in the South!

Girl, I never said you aren't strong!!! Don't ever think I said that! I don't doubt you could do CFC in your sleep.

Just don't dis our terrain or the riders here. Like my one riding buddy who did the Cinderella Century this year on a rented, poorly fitting mountain bike (the last bike she could get on short notice). And passed a whole lot of people while she was at it - she tells a story about how her knobby tires were making so much noise, people would yell "Car Back!" before she passed them. All of her training was here in the heartland, except for Mountain Mama, a little bit south of us - looks to be at least as many feet/mile as DMD, if half the distance - lots of people from our area did Mt. Mama, with no training on what you would consider "hills," and they finished it just fine (including one guy who broke his wrist early on and finished the ride anyway, but he's just nuts ).