You can look at these and compare climbs near the parkway. This would put the 3 humps climbs (pilot, hanging rock, sauratown) in the Cat2-3 range. These are TdF climbs and are "easier" than Giro climbs (from what Ive observed watching this year). Around here there are no categorized climbs but if you want a grade example... riding south on Edwards Mills from Crabtree mall is 8%. Driving south on Glenwood Ave from Millbrook to the Mall maxes at 8%. Covered Bridge I think maxes at 13%. The blue ridge parkway never goes over 8%.
Category 4 1.4 km at 5.0% (70 m rise) Cote de Saint Thomas 2.2 km at 3.9% (86 m rise) Cote du Val d'Any Category 3 2.8 km at 7.0% (196 m rise) Col de Pierre-Purtuis 4.7 km at 4.5% (211 m rise) Col des Freres Category 2 4.4 km at 9.8% (431 m rise) Col de Portet d'Aspet 14.0 km at 5.0% (700 m rise) Cote de Rousset 18.5 km at 4.3% (795 m rise) Col de Grand Cucheron Category 1 12.8 km at 6.8% (870 m rise) La Mongie 15.1 km at 6.5% (982 m rise) Col de Saisies Category 0 (HC) 15.9 km at 7.8% (1240 m rise) Plateau de Beille 17.1 km at 7.4% (1265 m rise) Cole du Tormalet On May 26, 5:51 pm, "Jason S." <[email protected]> wrote: > Hills around here are where the road goes up until it doesn't go up > anymore. Then it starts to go down. Sometimes it goes up again. > > Sorry I couldn't resist. It's the fireman in me. > > Jason > > On May 26, 5:08 pm, slow down <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > When watching tours on TV, they refer to hills as 15 or so percent or > > cat something. I can't relate. What does this mean? What are the > > hills around here?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you subscribed to the Gyro email group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected]
