Puttin it in context - climbing miles

[OakLeaf]

We've had this discussion before ... I think the consensus is that it depends on the climbs.

Small hills are like intervals, long ones are like a tempo workout. Hypothetically you could climb 10,000 feet in 100 miles on one long 2% grade, and barely feel it in your legs. Or, you could climb the same 10,000 feet the way we do in southern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois ... by climbing the same 300 feet over and over again on grades of 12-25%. That, you will feel.

6400 feet in 127 miles is not a lot of climbing for southern Ohio. But if you're not used to it, anything is a lot.

[Catrin]

This is the brevet they moved from the west side of Columbus to the east side - instead of starting at Galloway it starts at Buckhorn Lake and goes north and east.

That being said, my mileage base has not been progressing at the rate I had hoped, and now I am nursing quad and hamstring - though it seems pretty close to being healed. I had pretty much decided to wait until spring for my first brevet, though a part of me was still toying with the idea... I just don't think I can do that kind of climbing in a little over three weeks...

I have been trying to climb every hill I can find, but am still very slow in the hills...