Climbing vs Elevation Gain 🧗
Climbing vs elevation gain? Aren’t they the same?
I’m not so sure. Some of the videos I’ve watched about RAGBRAI mention daily feet of climbing; and there was a day with 4000+ feet of total climbing. That’s more than Iowa’s highest elevation point! Ergo RAGBRAI riders aren’t making much elevation gain.
What they are doing is riding up and down rolling hills; and climb after climb adds up. So, climbing vs elevation gain: which do I prefer? I’m not sure, as it’s flat where I live; but I’m glad that training for RAGBRAI won’t require a hypoxic mask!
Tiresome! 🥱
Today’s ride got very tiresome; that’s always the case when I have a flat! (Yeah, I know. Bad joke). Even tire liners, in addition to tough tires like GatorSkins, can’t entirely prevent flats. Luckily a kind gentleman came by and helped me. Truth be told, he did all the work!
I consider such repairs as temporary; and I rode rather easily until I could get home. Then I had to walk the bike to the shop to get new tire liners and new GatorSkins. Of course that was tiresome in this heat; and my legs were weary as well. And I just didn’t feel like riding alongside traffic!
This morning I practiced pace work; 5 minutes of pushing it + 5 minutes of riding easily. Then repeat it twice. And in the middle of the third hard effort, that rear tire went. How tiresome!
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