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At this time of the year I like to focus on my objectives for the years cycling. I do like to have something to push for otherwise I get rather lazy and aimless. Therefore I have set myelf two main objectives – which go hand in hand.
I want to ascend 100,000 metres on my bike, whether indoor or outdoor. In parallel with that I want to climb all the routes I can find virtually from the book Mountain High – Europe’s Greatest Cycle Climbs by Daniel Friebe and Pete Goding
Why 100K metres? A Strava buddy managed 200K metres in 2023 which I looked at and considered absolutely beyond me. I chatted to another buddy who said ‘My weekly goal on Strava is 1875m elevation so 7500m per lunar month, and 97500m per year.’. That seemed reasonable and fitted in with numbers I had achieved previously.
I had already decided to reclimb most of the European climbs on Fulgaz and I as I own the book I thought I might as well use their list.
Mountain High – Europe’s Greatest Cycle Climbs by Daniel Friebe and Pete Goding
I have compiled an Excel spreadsheet of all the rides and where they can be found using firstly Fulgaz and then Rouvy to identify the missing rides. The last few rides are shown below
I am making this available on Google (V1) for anybody to download and use themselves. I will be adding a column where Rouvy is the preferred app to complete the rides on. That will be loaded as V2
EDIT 14th Jan 2024. V2 now uploaded. Contains both Rouvy and Fulgaz routes. I will probably not ride the Rouvy map only climbs and I will likely use Rouvy Just Ride and Fulgaz section features to only do the climb part of some of the longer rides
On Fulgaz the code ‘LEGACY’ might need to be entered to see some of the older (retired) rides such as Angliru
Any mistakes, omissions or listed mountains that I have not found rides for please let me know in the comments or on Strava (see below for details)
I am still thinking about other challenges and I have a few ideas which I will probably post about shortly.
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Keith Aitchison said:
John, Great idea and a wonderful, medium term bucket list addition as I aroach retirement. item, riding the top 50 indoors and in real life. I am lucky enough to have two great cycling playgounds that i slit my time bewteen; the hills behind Barcelona and the cycling heaven area around our house in France. In 2022 I climbed 1m ft and set that as one of my 2023 targets. Hitting it by the end of November I amended and went for 365,000 m or 1000m a day, which I also hit….just! This year I’m going for 400,000 and am ahead of schedule so far. Your list has given me something to sulement Rouvy challenges and rides to do that I’ve not yet done either online or in real life. Many thanks fo the intiative.
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John Hallas said:
Thanks Keith. Your locations sound brilliant. That is a very impressive ammount of climbing in a year. I think 1000m a day sounds much harder than 350,000 a year (which is indeed a fantastic number). The latter seems unattainable but 1000m a day seems doable but impossible hard.
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emersoncolin said:
Great Blog John, appreciate you putting this together.
Colin
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John Hallas said:
Thanks Colin. I also appreciate the work you do on YT and with the GRC club
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