Yes, that’s on the list, but it’s hard - as its 10-12% ALL OF THE WAY!
The descent is also pretty sketchy
The hill I am thinking of doing it on is a fairly consistent 6%ish. I’d need 100 repeats. Nearly 200 miles. I’ve receed it. Climbing at 200w in my lowest gear (34-28) I’m doing 70-75rpm and descending at 25-30mph without pushing the descent at all. I can’t imagine having to descend a 13% climb at high speed to chase the record. You’d be so fatigued and that kind of speed would be hairy…! I can’t imagine Emma Pooley had significantly lower gears than me, maybe 34-30, she must have destroyed herself. It would take me 14-16 hours I reckon to “complete” rather than race it. I haven’t yet been able to bring myself to commit to it. (I have bought a battery pack and OTG charging cable for my Garmin…)
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I may have done something similar, initially for the escape from Meriden race but it could come in handy I guess…
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She’s not a normal person. She outclimbs male ex-pros, she does have a massive level of respect out here.
She did a decent run today, after an everest yesterday, and she is supporting on our club 6000m 170km ride on Sunday… and by supporting, I suspect she will be riding a fair bit of it
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Incredible stuff
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This is one of the climbs out of Wells in Somt (my hometown) and the local studs really hammer it up here.
One of the new young fast guys was talking about Everesting this, IIRC he said it would be 38 climbs. I’m not on Strava, so I have no idea if it’s been done or not but it’s far from a straightforward descent (quite bumpy and twisty at the lower end).
There’s been two successful Everest’s on that climb
Ben Millar - 269 km - 15 hrs 29 - 9761 m
Callum Hunter - 274 km - 17 hrs 54 - 9230 m
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Is that from Strava or is there an Everesting bible somewhere you can look these things up?
Mate of mine did 62 reps up a 1 mile 9% climb. I think the key thing was it was’t too twisty for the decent.
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For Holme Moss I’d bin off that first section and just do the 2nd half - IIRC correctly the first bit is quite steep out of Holmefirth then you’ve got that annoying flattening and mini descent around the bends before you get to the second section - would imagine that would really mess up your rythym although obv means way more turnarounds if you cut off part of the climb.
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You could alternate both sides? That’d at least make for more variation. Southern side is steeper I think - Chris Hoy’s favourite descent that one apparently
Ben Millar is the guy that was talking about it. I can’t tell you how much our hearts sink when he turns up for the ride. 
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Nope, you cannot.
Ascent/descent has to be the same for it to be an Everesting.
But as long as you finished on an even number of ‘laps’ it would be the same.
Contador takes the record now:
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Did he have a beef sandwich before he started?
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It is a lovely descent. The best time I went over Holme Moss was in early Spring one year and the road was still closed because of snow; the road was clear apart from a huge snow bank just over the top on the S side but it was easy enough to clamber over this, and it meant the road was basically closed to traffic 
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not in their game 
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Sod doing it on a steep climb!!! The Alp D’Wark segment on my commute scales the south face of Southwark Bridge, a total climb of 13m over 0.4km.
681 reps and 545km should do it 
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