{"id":35,"date":"2009-03-15T20:21:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T20:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-03-15T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T20:28:26","slug":"not-the-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Not the Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just for constrast, I had a look to see what kind of climbs the Tour de France guys do.\u00a0 A couple of years ago, they did the road through Bourg-Saint-Maurice up into Tignes which I know from snowboarding trips.\u00a0 Bourg is at about 700m, and Tignes le Lac is at 2100m.\u00a0 So the Tour riders were cycling .. nay, <em>racing .. <\/em>up 1400m in 19miles.\u00a0\u00a0 So that&#8217;s an average climb of 73 metres per mile <strong>sustained for 19miles<\/strong>.\u00a0 Whereas on the Wanlockhead road, I was tackling a 57m rise every mile, and only had to do it for 7 miles.<\/p>\n<p>The tour route up Alp d&#8217;Huez climbs 1110m in 9.3 miles &#8211; a staggering 119 metres gained every mile.\u00a0 The record times from the tour rides are all sub 40 minutes.\u00a0\u00a0 I took 40 minutes to cover my 400m\/7mile climb &#8211; whereas Pantani did 1110m\/9.3miles in the same time.\u00a0 Well, he was <em>chemically assisted<\/em> .. but there&#8217;s plenty of other folk doing sub-40min climbs there.<\/p>\n<p>Sheez &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, go watch Mr Armstrong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GHJErrp4eOw\">out psyche and out climb<\/a> everyone else again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for constrast, I had a look to see what kind of climbs the Tour de France guys do.\u00a0 A couple of years ago, they did the road through Bourg-Saint-Maurice up into Tignes which I know from snowboarding trips.\u00a0 Bourg is at about 700m, and Tignes le Lac is at 2100m.\u00a0 So the Tour riders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}