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Everesting Pretoria


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So I decided to do this Everesting thing……
Started 12:15 on Saturday morning.  Perfect weather.
There is a small climb near my house which I chose to do it on.  It helps if something happens i.e. technical or puncture or helps with the rest periods and food.

Also, peeing in someone’s garden at 2am normally is not an issue and only you know about it.  Doing it at 2pm…..people tend to point and laugh and draw guns and stuff.   :blink:  ^_^

I wanted to do it in a day’s time.  24 hours.

This hill was as close as it was going to get with a total accent of 47m according to Strava (little more on the Garmin) and a distance of around 800m.

 

Long story short, took me 18 hours 40 minutes to complete my challenge (15:10 riding time)

Total accent of 9000m reached.

My Strava File:  https://app.strava.com/activities/283650609

Ave Watts:  165

NP:  227

Distance:  308km

Time:  18:40:45

Accent:  9259 (Garmin/TP calc)

TSS:  818

 

Nou ja…..on the Hells500 Wall of Fame so I am happy….

 

Nutrition wise, I have done a bottle of water and a bottle of USN Epic pro every 3-4 hours.

Eggs on toast 5am

Noodles 1pm

Protein shake 12pm

I should have eaten something with substance at around 4pm but I was so tired and did not think about food in any way.

Introduced a coke and a chocolate at 5pm and my wheels came off.  Nauseous and just feeling very bad in general.  Pushed through it but it was a stupid mistake.

 

Bike behaved very well.
Cannondale, Campy, Campy wheel set.  The Stages power meter did not hick-up once.
Punctured at 1am.

 

I charged my Garmin 1000 with a Amped charger – It was able to charge 20% for 15min plugged in when I stopped for food and the best was it did not switch off when I plugged it in which is one of the requirements to complete the challenge.

 

Also very important was the pants/saddle combination.

Did it with my trusty old Selle San Marco saddle.  No issues.
Assos S7 bib was worth every cent.  No saddle sores.  No chafing, nothing.  Perfect.

Hall of Fame:  http://www.everesting.cc/hall-of-fame/

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CONGRATS!!!!! How many laps of that did you do?? How did you handle doing that same stretch of road that many times? Really keen to hear how your mind handled an all day effort doing that many repeats on the same piece of road!

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Holy moly dude, nice one!

 

Interesting to note how you HR slowed through the ride.

 

Edit: How many times did you go up that hill?

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CONGRATS!!!!! How many laps of that did you do?? How did you handle doing that same stretch of road that many times? Really keen to hear how your mind handled an all day effort doing that many repeats on the same piece of road!

 

Holy moly dude, nice one!

 

Edit: How many times did you go up that hill?

188 times.

I could have sworn I did more but I counted them twice.  heheheh

 

1-4 am was OK.  Nice fresh autumn morning.  Legs ok.  Back ok. 

6-8am was a bit......"I wonder how good idea this was?"  Should I do this or just go home and catch up sleep?"

8-12pm was tough.  You start feeling tired.  Back gets sore.  Traffic starts up.  Sun.  Heat

12-4pm was better.  Started to get into a nice rhythm.  All the time calculating how long to go. 

4pm-18:00 was the worst.  Started to get cold and dark and tired but you are "so close" yet you short 1000m accent!!  Decided to push through but it was a real crazy mind battle. 

 

From all the body parts that could hurt, my breathing/lungs suffered the most.  I was unable to take deep breaths in the end without coughing.  Took me a good hour just lying in bed trying to get my breathing back to normal.

 

Other than that, the body was doing OK. 

I have just learned again that your body is an amazing tool!!

 

There is a dude that did a climb 800 times down in Australia!!!

Then there is a dude that did 600km to get the accent.

So a lot "harder" rides out there.

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Well done, it must be hard just to do the time and distance never mind all that climbing

 

How long was that climb, the ascent distances on the graph seem to vary between 6 km and 24 km?

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What gearing did u use and did u ever have to use your lowest gear and think / wish you had something even lower?

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What gearing did u use and did u ever have to use your lowest gear and think / wish you had something even lower?

Forgot about mentioning that.

 

Normal 11/25 cassette and 53/39? in front.

The hill I picked was so that I only had to stand the final 50m or so which was good for the legs but also good for circulation to dem ass.......hehhehe

Most of the final standing was done in the 23 gear.

A 27 would have made me go slower and it was much more a fight against time that it was against gradient.

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