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Distance:
42.51 miles
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Altitude Gain:
3,882 ft
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Avg Speed:
14.72 mph
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Route:
Hayes Upper Foots South
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Avg Grade: 0 %
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Max Grade: 0 %
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Max HR: 150 bpm
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Avg HR: 122 bpm
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Terrain: Road: Steep
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Bike: Look Blade RS 795 Iconic Ltd Road
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Club: Schuyler County Cycling Club |
| Weather Conditions: Overcast 69 F SSE wind @ 9 mph |
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Had to wait for it to warm up again and that took most of the day. Continued with my climbing training with pretty much just continuous climbs and descents as have to try to get adapted to climbing one hundred feet in each mile to equate a ten thousand feet of climbing in a century. Started off up Hayes Road that is the toughest climbs near my house being less than two miles long and having over one-thousand feet of climbing. I haven't done the climb in over ten years so today brought back some unpleasant memories. Climb starts off at twelve percent and follows with a long ten-percent section and finishes with a short twenty-percent rise. Can't say I rode it very aggressively just spun easy and tried to finish. My 840 only measured the last section at eighteen percent while my old 305 had it at twenty. I just know it was steep. Hayes Road dumped me off on Lower Foots Hill Road that continues upwards until starting another climb that consists of the upper end on Lower Foots Hill and the beginning of Upper Foots Hill. It wasn't much of a climb after doing Hayes with only having ten percent grades. Continued on Upper Foots Hill that turned into dirt, but it was manageable as it had fairly a fairly smooth surface without large rocks nor potholes. A downhill section set me back out on Lower Foots and looped around again through Burdett and climbed South Hill out of Bennettsburg. It is a two-mile-long climb with a couple of twelve percent sections. All of the climbs were within five miles of each other so got lots of climbing in without too many miles though fell short of my 100ft/mile goal since I descended into Watkins to finish instead of returning to Montour directly. Was happy with my average speed overall as had done well on the later climbing after milking Hayes Hill. Ten percent climbs suddenly seem less imposing after doing twenty percent grades.
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