My upcoming stage...

Published 24 July 07 07:56 PM | ericgu

I'm getting up at O-god-30 on Thursday morning to go ride RAMROD. This is one of the hardest single-day rides (as opposed to "races") in Washington state - with 143 miles and about 11K in climbing.

It has one 15 mile climb of about 3000 feet (perhaps 11 miles at 8% or so), and two 2000 foot climbs.

It being the tour time, and all, I wondered how this ride stacked up against the typical Tour stages.

The answer? Well the big climb rates a cat 2, and the shorter ones are cat 3. That makes the ride a...

Medium Mountain Stage

You know, one of those stages that has a few small climbs in it but nothing very hard?

So, I guess I shouldn't be worried about it, right?

 

Comments

# Mark said on July 25, 2007 12:37 AM:

You'll be fine. Just remember to get up an hour earlier to take on a fresh supply of blood a la Vino.

# Chris said on July 25, 2007 06:04 AM:

Good luck, I know for us mere mortals that those climbs  are killer. Then again its rough to find out that Vino is a mortal too, trying to pass himself off as a super-hero. I wonder who else is taking their daily "spinach" to help them over the Pyrenees.

# RiderX said on July 28, 2007 04:28 PM:

The good part of goal events is that they give you something to focus on during your training. The bad

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