Everesting

Ciaran OHara

Managed to claim a little piece of England for myself on Friday.

http://road.cc/content/news/126787-two-cyclists-ride-box-hill-73-times-bag-everest

P.S I'm not from Enfield, I'm from Derry.

ZiabR

Ciaran OHara wrote: »

Managed to claim a little piece of England for myself on Friday.

http://road.cc/content/news/126787-two-cyclists-ride-box-hill-73-times-bag-everest

P.S I'm not from Enfield, I'm from Derry.

Thats a little bit mental! Well done, legs must of taken awhile to get back to normal after that.

Wishbone Ash

Seriously impressive feat! :eek:

Just wondering how did you keep count to ensure 73 climbs? I'd imagine that extreme fatigue would make concentration difficult.

(...or did you just go on the GPS readings?)

Rambling Man

What's also impressive is the battery life of the GPS device.

CramCycle

Not the only boardsie to bag an everest, thebouldwhacker claiming the longest route to get an everest only a few weeks ago: http://www.everesting.cc/hall-of-fame/

Well done Ciaran, hell of a challenge

Ciaran OHara

I had someone there the entire day who timed, handed out food and kept a lap count.

I had a garmin 800 with an external battery pack which worked great up until the 70th rep when the garmin itself, despite having half a charge, packed in. I had to do a master reset. I did however also have a 910xt running as a backup.

Legs felt surprisingly good as I have been preparing for this for 3 months with some serious efforts and big solo days.

Going for another on September 6th which was my original planned date for boxhill but have yet to choose a hill.

Recon this Saturday.

Congrats theboulderwhacker.

Bloggsie

Ciaran OHara, yere seriously nuckin futs!, you cant see me right now, but your getting a standing ovation.

The Noble Nudge

Well done to the lads on completing above....
Sorry for going off topic slightly,

I am doing some investigations on everesting anywhere in Wickla for a 1000m climb in a relatively short distance??

Inquitus

The Noble Nudge wrote: »

Well done to the lads on completing above....
Sorry for going off topic slightly,

I am doing some investigations on everesting anywhere in Wickla for a 1000m climb in a relatively short distance??

Nothing like that in Wicklow, the Wicklow Gap up Thurlough hill will give you 533m in 10km. I would think thats about as good as it gets in Wicklow in so far as a long climb with the avg over 5%.

Alek

533m in 10km.

17 repetitions, 9061m / 332km :eek:

Thanks but no thanks.

Inquitus

Alek wrote: »

17 repetitions, 9061m / 332km :eek:

Thanks but no thanks.

Half of it is downhill though!

Wishbone Ash

Inquitus wrote: »

Nothing like that in Wicklow, the Wicklow Gap up Thurlough hill will give you 533m in 10km. I would think thats about as good as it gets in Wicklow in so far as a long climb with the avg over 5%.

Kippure will give a higher altitude albeit over a longer distance (with a dodgy road to the mast).

ford2600

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Kippure will give a higher altitude albeit over a longer distance (with a dodgy road to the mast).

Barry Meehan is doing Ticincor & Powers the Pot climb on Saturday. 21 times I believe.

Much easier ways of doing it, but he was never a man for easy.

Check out his blog

Check out this segment on Strava: http://app.strava.com/segments/656146 — Tickincor
Check out this segment on Strava: http://app.strava.com/segments/884668 — powers the pot

Those two segments.

If you done SKT first segment is first climb and second segment is descent of Powers the Pot

Daroxtar

It's only about 40 reps of Kilmashogue if you want an easy way.....

unichall

280 reps of Knockmaroon Hill which would be about 150 km, half off it downhill, who's in?

Inquitus

Daroxtar wrote: »

It's only about 40 reps of Kilmashogue if you want an easy way.....

100km at 10% I'd like to see hard!

Alek

280 reps

You'll never walk straight after this.

wanderer 22

You could do this segment of Kilmashogue 102 times..https://www.strava.com/activities/309031089/segments/7283115458

123k all in :-P (including downhill obviously)

Peterx

Taylors to the Masts is the "easiest" way to do this. 28 ascents.

319m per ascent. 8km round trip. 224km total. The climb naturally splits into three manageable sections. Relatively quiet roads if you avoid the Sunday strollers.
Hot Food available from the pub during the effort and pints afterwards.

wanderer 22

Peterx wrote: »

Taylors to the Masts is the "easiest" way to do this. 28 ascents.

319m per ascent. 8km round trip. 224km total. The climb naturally splits into three manageable sections. Relatively quiet roads if you avoid the Sunday strollers.
Hot Food available from the pub during the effort and pints afterwards.

Hmmm, you almost make it sound doable..

marvin80

Barry Meehan is doing one at the weekend:

http://thecyclingblog.com/my-biggest-challenge-yet-everest/

To get to a height of 8848m I will have to climb to the very top of Tickincor and Powers the Pot over twenty one times.

Starting at 5am I probably won’t finish until after 9pm that night.

jinkypolly

The guy with the most everesting reps done a 100m long climb 836 times. Now that is just mental.
http://app.strava.com/activities/177735271

Alek

Hmmm, you almost make it sound doable..

With 34/34 gear... at least tempting

lukegjpotter

Peterx wrote: »

Taylors to the Masts is the "easiest" way to do this. 28 ascents.
Hot Food available from the pub during the effort and pints afterwards.

That descent is a killer though, especially as you get tired and start to lose concentration.

Daroxtar wrote: »

It's only about 40 reps of Kilmashogue if you want an easy way.....

Park the car at the top, have it loaded with sustenance. 34x32 gearing. Garmin charger on the top tube.

https://www.strava.com/segments/5133948

wanderer 22

Daroxtar wrote: »

It's only about 40 reps of Kilmashogue if you want an easy way.....

A mate of mine did 9 reps - he wrote a blog post about it (love his strava elevation graph :pac:)

http://andrasgercsenyi.blogspot.ie/2012/04/kilmashogue-climb-x-9-times-in-row-2012.html

Peterx

colm18 wrote: »

Hmmm, you almost make it sound doable..

Yep,

I think it's totally doable.
A northerly wind in about 14 degrees Celsius would be the cherry icing on top.

wanderer 22

I might build up to it, maybe 7 reps this saturday

uphillonly

colm18 wrote: »

A mate of mine did 9 reps - he wrote a blog post about it (love his strava elevation graph :pac:)

http://andrasgercsenyi.blogspot.ie/2012/04/kilmashogue-climb-x-9-times-in-row-2012.html

He only weighs 51kg!

wanderer 22

uphillonly wrote: »

He only weighs 51kg!

Ha, yeah- one of the few guys I know lighter than me (60kg) :pac:

The Noble Nudge

colm18 wrote: »

A mate of mine did 9 reps - he wrote a blog post about it (love his strava elevation graph :pac:)

http://andrasgercsenyi.blogspot.ie/2012/04/kilmashogue-climb-x-9-times-in-row-2012.html

He worked in CSS for a while??

The Noble Nudge

What about Shay Elliott Sleeveman or vice versa??

Kippure and Turlough hill youd have to get off the bike to get through the gates,
Kilmashogue very difficult descent from a fatigue point of view...

Lumen

I imagine that the best sort of hill for everesting is steep enough that wind resistance isn't a major factor but shallow enough that you're able to spin a nice gear.

I struggle on long steep hills (>10%) even with 1:1 gearing and high cadence. I don't really know why.

For me the optimum is 5%. I could do that at 15kph all day (~200 watts). Aero drag at 15kph is minimal so I'm not sure steeper would make much difference.

So 5% for 10km (Wicklow gap?) would be about 40 minutes up and ~15 down. Maybe one repeat an hour with a bit to spare. So that's 17 hours.

I don't like the idea of riding my bike for 17 hours (of which 11 hours would be light climbing) but I'd prefer that to repeats of Kilmashogue, however quick they theoretically are.

wanderer 22

The Noble Nudge wrote: »

He worked in CSS for a while??

Yeah, that's him - and in ThinkBike before that

Inquitus

Lumen wrote: »

I imagine that the best sort of hill for everesting is steep enough that wind resistance isn't a major factor but shallow enough that you're able to spin a nice gear.

I struggle on long steep hills (>10%) even with 1:1 gearing and high cadence. I don't really know why.

For me the optimum is 5%. I could do that at 15kph all day (~200 watts). Aero drag at 15kph is minimal so I'm not sure steeper would make much difference.

So 5% for 10km (Wicklow gap?) would be about 40 minutes up and ~15 down. Maybe one repeat an hour with a bit to spare. So that's 17 hours.

I don't like the idea of riding my bike for 17 hours (of which 11 hours would be light climbing) but I'd prefer that to repeats of Kilmashogue, however quick they theoretically are.

Even if I had ridic gearing I don't think I could do Kilmashogue the requisite number of times, even for the WW Gap I'd want a 32 on the back and a compact if I had to do it this many times.

The Noble Nudge

Inquitus wrote: »

Even if I had ridic gearing I don't think I could do Kilmashogue the requisite number of times, even for the WW Gap I'd want a 32 on the back and a compact if I had to do it this many times.

Sounds like your investigating too.....:cool:

ford2600

Barry Meehan looking good to finish this. A strong headwind at top if it wasn't hard enough.
One or two more to go at this stage

Proper athlete and bike handler, you would want to see him descend; as they say locally "ah but he is no ordinary man"

Edit. Just finished.


https://m.facebook.com/john.d.kelly.75/albums/10153931523728327/

The Noble Nudge

ford2600 wrote: »

Barry Meehan looking good to finish this. A strong headwind at top if it wasn't hard enough.
One or two more to go at this stage

Proper athlete and bike handler, you would want to see him descend; as they say locally "ah but he is no ordinary man"

Edit. Just finished.
https://m.facebook.com/john.d.kelly.75/albums/10153931523728327/

FairPlay to him..
I'm not on Facebook any chance he recorded it on Strava?? Can you throw it on here if he did???

MichealD

The Noble Nudge wrote: »

FairPlay to him..
I'm not on Facebook any chance he recorded it on Strava?? Can you throw it on here if he did???

https://www.strava.com/activities/315137319

Amazing achievement.

The Noble Nudge

MichealD wrote: »

https://www.strava.com/activities/315137319

Amazing achievement.

Jaysus he's some man....

ford2600

The Noble Nudge wrote: »

Jaysus he's some man....

I went up with him late enough in the day and was surprised how good a condition he was in. The descent in the wet is tricky( few 15% plus sections) but with his skillset and disc brakes he was able to relax and recover on that more than most would have.

Daroxtar

How did the mountain grow from 343m to 436m over the course of the day?????

ford2600

Daroxtar wrote: »

How did the mountain grow from 343m to 436m over the course of the day?????

Crap weather came in, lower pressure which effected barometric reading on garmin?

The Noble Nudge

ford2600 wrote: »

I went up with him late enough in the day and was surprised how good a condition he was in. The descent in the wet is tricky( few 15% plus sections) but with his skillset and disc brakes he was able to relax and recover on that more than most would have.

I know the road I've done the Sean Kelly the last few years....not easy in the wet.
Did he do it to fundraiser for anything??

Alek

Crap weather came in, lower pressure which effected barometric reading on garmin?

Exactly. The lowest point changed from -77m to 30m...

ford2600

The Noble Nudge wrote: »

I know the road I've done the Sean Kelly the last few years....not easy in the wet.
Did he do it to fundraiser for anything??

http://thecyclingblog.com/my-biggest-challenge-yet-everest/

DogSlySmile

Everesting sounds like a great challenge! is it strictly for cyclists though? anyone ever heard of a runner doing this?

I'd say it would be extremely tough for a runner to complete this as they would have to deal with 8,848m of descent as well as ascent! :eek:... but it would be some achievement

ford2600

DogSlySmile wrote: »

Everesting sounds like a great challenge! is it strictly for cyclists though? anyone ever heard of a runner doing this?

I'd say it would be extremely tough for a runner to complete this as they would have to deal with 8,848m of descent as well as ascent! :eek:... but it would be some achievement

A couple of lunatics from Mayo/Westport did it on The Reek/Croagh Patrick a few years ago.

DogSlySmile

ford2600 wrote: »

A couple of lunatics from Mayo/Westport did it on The Reek/Croagh Patrick a few years ago.

yikes, did they go up/down the same section over and over again as per the Everesting rules?

Peterx

ford2600 wrote: »

A couple of lunatics from Mayo/Westport did it on The Reek/Croagh Patrick a few years ago.

http://www.runireland.com/articles/climbers-set-new-24-hour-world-record-reek-fund-raising-drive