Everesting the Devil's Elbow

[Dave Barter]

Go on then, anyone coming with me?

[Ian]

Only if you promise not to swear at me

[SRS]

CyclingTips.com podcast on Everesting and multi-day races: http://cyclingtips.com/2016/06/cyclingt ... me-racing/

Everesting and High Rouleurs Society discussion starts at 46-minutes

[Ian]

Good link, thanks. Alex Louca's comment at the bottom of the article page was interesting; effectively describing the same approach I cover in my write up where the climb is broken down into micro sections and you barely focus past each one

[whitestone]

Ian, I've always found it harder to do any effort the first time as you don't know how/where to break it down in to manageable chunks even if those "chunks" can be as long or longer than some complete efforts. Have done a couple of the local cobbled (actually setts) climbs near us recently, one I had driven up a couple of times before so knew roughly what it was like but the other was completely unseen, in fact I didn't know exactly where it was.

The one I'd driven up is significantly harder in real terms (it's one of the hardest climbs in the area) than the other yet I found it OK. Last night on the other I struggled but it's a smoother surface and not as steep.

I wouldn't Everest either of them

[Zippy]

Nice work Ian, and your write up makes it sound so much easier and logical than it really is Are you using your statistical analysis to evaluate and improve upon this Everesting and ramp it up for a double Everesting?