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Annual elevation. What's yours?

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#1 ·
My goal was to climb 1/2 million feet this year and I'm going to fall short. Unless...

Currently I'm at 435,197ft
 
#31 ·
I put in a lot of flat road miles in SLO this year, but next year a million should be easy since I'm riding in the East Bay and focusing on mtb again.

Year-to-Date
Distance 11,153.8mi
Time 676hr 19m
Elev Gain 763,579ft
Rides 308

I'm in a big training block now, so probably 40-50k more in the next 20 days.

edit: If I get really close to some sort of exciting number, I will fudge it with run data
Year-to-Date
Distance 159.4mi
Time 22hr 22m
Elev Gain 14,101ft
Runs 27
 
#32 ·
This year started out well, then with a new job, moving, back to school and a broken bike it's not ending all that well, climbing wise. Good thing the new cross bike is almost done and I have a pair of slicks already mounted.

Distance 1,658.7mi
Time 160hr 57m
Elev Gain 135,062ft
Rides 124
 
#34 ·
Funny you should ask, looks like I'll hit 500,000' sometime today. Garmin says:

Elevation Gain:
499,646 ft

I'm riding less this year; just bike commuting and pleasure riding. My ride home from work is minimum 1100' uphill every night. I bike commute 3-4 times a week.

Edit: Strava says 483,645ft. Yeah, I upload to both.

Morgan
 
#40 ·
I just ride my bike, up, down, around, and enjoy it. I have no electronics on me except for a turned off cell phone and a digital camera. No clue or cares as to how far ,fast, or how much. I prefer to smell the fungi and wildflowers
 
#53 ·
I'm with Buzz Cut. No electronics for me. If I were aiming for some arbitrary mileage, or climbing goal, it would just stress me out. I ride to relieve stress, not add to it.

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#46 ·
Its kind of interesting to divide the footage by the mileage.

Leopold 117 ft/mi
rednova 187
menso 68 (road miles)
motorbacon 81
SeanAllen 114
mbolt 144
where 140
nordy 85

As kind of a standard, I mostly ride the ARSA (clementine, culvert, FHDL, etc) and I logged a 144.

Not sure where rednova rides, but it must be on the side of a cliff.

If you worked up some averages this metric could serve as a good way of rating rides and riding areas. I'll have to throw that in the strava suggestion box.
 
#49 ·
Its kind of interesting to divide the footage by the mileage.

Leopold 117 ft/mi
rednova 187
menso 68 (road miles)
motorbacon 81
SeanAllen 114
mbolt 144
where 140
nordy 85

As kind of a standard, I mostly ride the ARSA (clementine, culvert, FHDL, etc) and I logged a 144.

Not sure where rednova rides, but it must be on the side of a cliff.

If you worked up some averages this metric could serve as a good way of rating rides and riding areas. I'll have to throw that in the strava suggestion box.
150.7 here. Some folk ride road to/fro the trailhead which might "skew" it. I drive.
 
#47 ·
From my Garmin 500

Progress Summary Report for 2012
Count: 94 Activities
Distance: 1,271.79 mi
Avg Distance: 13.53 mi
Max Distance: 43.33 mi
Time: 182:50:45 h:m:s
Avg Time: 1:56:43 h:m:s
Max Time: 6:23:44 h:m:s
Elevation Gain: 224,613 ft
Avg Elevation Gain: 2,389 ft
Max Elevation Gain: 6,998 ft
Avg Speed: 7.0 mph
Max Speed: 43.9 mph
Calories: 121,680 C
 
#51 ·
I was pretty obsessed with tracking elevation last year, but have stopped this year. A lot of commitments are keeping me to 1 mtb ride a week so trying to squeeze more time in on the bike via commuting which is pretty flat. More miles, but while I was ahead of last year through June or July I'm pretty sure my total would be under 250K if I was still tracking every ride.

rednova's numbers are from Marin, most good riding here requires a lot of steep climbing. It's hard to ride 20 miles without at least 3.7-4K of climbing, 187 is right on the money.

-slide
 
#60 ·
My mileage

Overall a solid active year for a guy w/four kids and a busy work schedule.
The great thing is my son who is 8 has really taken to riding so hopefully I'll be able to continue "double ride" weekends and maybe break 350K next year. All miles and footies are a gift!

YEAR-TO-DATE
Distance 1,604.7mi
Time 203hr 21m
Elev Gain 240,679ft
Rides 129

Got some runnin' miles in too while training for 2 1/2 Marathons:

Distance 213.8mi
Time 41hr 3m
Elev Gain 8,947ft
Runs 51

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