Oh didn’t know that! Is that purely to make verification easier (i.e. check one climb rather than n - in this case 2)?
Not sure, it’s just one of the silly rules!
An old club mate was the third person in the UK to do it…but he did it on Beeley Moor, which is pretty savage (it’s the sister climb of Rowsley Bar, which is in the Top 100 climbs)
@r0bh, @PhilleusPhogg - Holme Moss descent back down to Woodhead Pass? That’s the way we’re doing it on Sunday - weeeeeeee (I hate descending…and climbing)
See Emma Pooley has broken the women’s record by 15 minutes.
I figured it had to be up and down the same route - not allowed to find a nice circuit with a steep decent, but how do you differentiate between an up then down segment and a climb with a bit of a dip in the middle?
This is the only significant hill near me but sod me, it’s hard to keep moving on that steep bit in the middle.
Whiteleaf hill
- Location: Princes Risborough – Chilterns
- Distance: 0.8 miles
- Height gain: 129m
- Average gradient: 10%
- Max gradient: 20%
- My pb – 3.43 (2014, Sep)
- 100 climbs – #23
- Everesting attempt? – 69 times (1 lap = 1.6 miles) Approx total = 111 miles
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Interesting. I can’t imagine the climb on the descent would count?
From the ‘rules’
If your descent includes a bit of climbing this still counts toward your total. Keep in mind that this is a climbing challenge, and routes with ‘kinetic gain’ should be checked via the everesting calculator first. The calculator has a built-in ‘check’ on descent elevation gain. You’ll know yourself from riding it in real life whether your chosen segment has a gain on the descent. We want to avoid ‘free metres’ where possible.
Rides must only focus on one hill or mountain per ride (e.g. you can’t base yourself in one location and ride multiple hills). You cannot ride different routes on the same mountain.
Rides must be full ascents each time (Strava segments or the accepted ‘traditional’ climbing route will generally be the best guide for this. You can’t commit to a combination of full and half laps). Acceptable is a shorter segment of a climb if it is recognised in its own right. If in doubt, ask.
So I reckon if a recognised long climb has a dip in the middle, long enough that you can’t free-wheel it on the way down, then it counts and you get the climbing credit for it on your decent.
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Seems legit 
That’s well dodgy, as inertia both ways from the descent on both will give you free ascent, you should have to dead stop at the start of every ascent to be fair. There’s already some unfairness on the bottom of hills depending how you turn around, allowing descents in the middle of the ascent is completely off.
Mind you I think it’s a ludicrous thing anyway, so do whatever you want in line with the rules.
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Hmm…the beef eater not being tested?
Have you seen the GPS trace???
It’s all over the shop.
Also - what iPhone does he have?!
As if you can record using GPS for eight hours and the battery not DIE 
Lachlan will beat it next week
Could’ve berm in the jersey pocket with a small battery pack maybe? Not sure
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Contador’s mark didn’t last long:
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I kind of like the idea of the quick version of this GCN suggested recently, the how many metres gain can you get in one hour, not going to try though as it looks far too much like hard work!
I had a lockdown project of max elevation gain in a 50km ride to/from your front door. Except it was the opposite of Everest as no repeat hills allowed. Kept the rides short but surprisingly tough, found some truly horrible climbs, just failed to get 1000m in 50km, main problem being I had to ride for 10K to get to any decent climbs.
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Good read that, cheers.
Seems surprisngly heavy, 14 year olds turn up to local hill climbs here with sub 6kg bikes, Dan Evans didn’t spend silly money on his and it’s ~5.5kg I think, and that’s electronic shifting and a full block. I wonder where the weight was, the campag maybe.
I was thinking that. For someone who’s gone as far to customise the bike the weight wasn’t particularly light. Go see some of the extreme examples on Weight Weenies for example.
I would love to see the size of the owners of those bikes, or if the actually ride them.
Are they “rideable”?
Finally did an Everesting. Just missed the record (by about 8 hours 
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I was pretty much unsupported so the bike was quite loaded up, and I had to have quite a few stops.
I did it to complete, not to compete, which was a bit strange. Could easily have carried on for a good few more hours, never felt that I was dying for it to be over. Hill was just under 6%. It got too dark to stay on the hill assume bats flying everywhere and was only a matter of time before one flew into me) and all sorts of critters came out of the woods onto the road at dusk. Wanted to get home in once piece so rode to the little town to get the miles to over 200. Normalised power quickly stabilised at 186 and stayed there all day. The time passed surprisingly quickly. I am just crimped in position now! Will probably write a blog post about it later…
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