Poll: OcUK Manchester(ish) Ride 2015

Please choose between..

  • 20th/21st June

    Votes: 9 75.0%

  • 27th/28th June

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • Total voters
    12
topgun06 said:
You can't just beat them by a measly 100ft. This route needs more hills!!
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Fair point :p

I think that was in comparison to the route they were meant to do actually. Looking at the actual ride versus our route there's a difference of almost 2000ft.

Then again, elevation measurement and prediction is always dodgy as hell anyhow.
 
FrenchTart said:
Fair point :p

I think that was in comparison to the route they were meant to do actually. Looking at the actual ride versus our route there's a difference of almost 2000ft.

Then again, elevation measurement and prediction is always dodgy as hell anyhow.
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it is dodgy indeed.. mine ended up a little over 6k for the day, planned was around 7k I think, we skipped one hill tho and 10ish k
 
FrenchTart said:
I wouldn't be surprised if we end up skipping some bits of our route too tbh, though we may end up stuck in a position where it's hard to avoid just finishing the whole thing.
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it's one of those things, different levels of fitness and so on so you gotta wait up for people, cut the ride in case it goes boom.. I'd plan that out properly :)
 
After today's experience of some hills in that neck of the woods, I'm having my doubts about an 80odd mile ride with even more climbing with guys who can actually ride a bike quite quickly... Unless I bail out at one of the aforementioned train stations!
 
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So by my count your route has the following categorised climbs:

Adlington to the top of Brickworks - cat 3
Pike Road - cat 4
Pym's Chair - cat 4
Goyt Valley - cat 3
Mam Tor - hilarious looking cat 3
Eccles Pike - cat 4
Whaley Lane - cat 4

By my reckoning we'll climb about 3000 feet in the first 25 miles, then there's about 30 miles of downhill and fairly rolling countryside, then about 15 miles with close to 2000 feet of climbing, and then we pretty much roll downhill back into Stockport.

I'm thinking we - and by we I mean I - will need to conserve energy on that middle 30 mile section, when it will be tempting to go too fast, or there is no way we - and by we I again me I - will enjoy the cat 3 at Mam Tor if we make it up at all!

Also, FWIW, I've plotted the route on ridewithgps and it comes out with 6500 feet compared to your route on Strava at 7500, so who knows!
 
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Vonhelmet said:
So by my count your route has the following categorised climbs:

Adlington to the top of Brickworks - cat 3
Pike Road - cat 4
Pym's Chair - cat 4
Goyt Valley - cat 3
Mam Tor - hilarious looking cat 3
Eccles Pike - cat 4
Whaley Lane - cat 4

By my reckoning we'll climb about 3000 feet in the first 25 miles, then there's about 30 miles of downhill and fairly rolling countryside, then about 15 miles with close to 2000 feet of climbing, and then we pretty much roll downhill back into Stockport.

I'm thinking we - and by we I mean I - will need to conserve energy on that middle 30 mile section, when it will be tempting to go too fast, or there is no way we - and by we I again me I - will enjoy the cat 3 at Mam Tor if we make it up at all!

Also, FWIW, I've plotted the route on ridewithgps and it comes out with 6500 feet compared to your route on Strava at 7500, so who knows!
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Have a good breakfast and eat/drink properly through the ride and you'll be fine and besides, it's not a race. I like the challenge of hills but I'm too heavy to be quick up them. The Peak District is punishing for a chubster like me. For that amount of climbing I'd be very happy with a 15mph average though I reckon it will be less given that its a meant to be a social ride?
 
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