Challenge completed this morning: 607m, 14yr old Son did 732m! We chose a steep local climb called Stapleton Castle with an average gradient of 10% over 1km. Looking forward to lunch now!
The thought of Manon keeping her hr between 180-190 for an hour is scary. I would probably have a cardiac arrest trying to sustain such hr for so long. Good records set by all 👍
Me to wife "I could do this on the in and out of the valley, don't waste the downhill momentum by stopping to turn round", Ollie 30 seconds later "I'm going to ride a giant half pipe".
I have a short loop in my neighborhood that is either up or down, no flat. I ride it as the first day of each training block. Keeping track of laps and time is a great way to measure your progress. The next two days are long intervals and then short intervals. I have been doing this for over 40 years.
Ollie reminded me of dastardly off wacky races then! Also, ever since Matt left there's been a hole in his place on the GCN show. But I feel like that hole has practically disappeared now... Manon, Ollie and Si make a fantastic presenting team (and of course Dan too! Where was his attempt though?!).
Thank you folks for putting this honest effort. Enjoyed watching it and one day will try it myself. The moral winner is Simon though. Kudos to All! ~ Rinoni.
North hill in Colchester , .0.3 km Kom is 32 seconds , 25 metre elevation , my best time is 58 seconds ! Went up that hill 5 times in one day and had enough 😂 ! Going up the hill 40 times would = 1000 metres ! Respect to the GSN presenters
...being a commuter/tourer type, will try on my local...ummm, "incline" on my Dawes Horizon with a pannier and handle bar bag as this lark looks like a right challenge! Might even move me into buying an endurance bike..thus pushing me toward a more MAMIL type experience!👍🤣🚴🇬🇧 Love the channel!👍
Ollie for the win! As with any new competition or game like this, the rules end up being formalized over time as the smarter people find loopholes so that it’s an even playing field and people end up having to do the same thing. For me, that would mean riding up and down the same hill. Well played though Ollie!
Will give it a go next weekend. I’m 47, most likely not as good a rider as most here and am on chemotherapy but there’s no way I’m going to let this challenge pass by and not try it.
I HATE GOING UPHILL, especially on long stretches that are just the right incline to make it hard to find an appropriate gear to be in. It always seems you’re either in too high or too low a gear. Nothing ever feels comfortable. It doesn’t help either when you’re in blistering 90-100°F heat with the sun beating down on you.
The best test and therapy lies in pulling a trailer with gallons of water and your 10month son back from the grocery store with a 52 by 32 for the lowest uphill. When i take the trailer off its somewhat like a muscle car.
Crikey, if I did Frocester Hill on my PR’s I’d only manage 750 meters. Hats off to you boys and girls. But then I’m also dragging 14.5 stone and my sorry arse up the hills!!
I followed up on this challenge last week! I rode Sydenham St. (1.4km @ 8%, 115m) Dundas, ON. Canada, 8 times for a VAM of 850. Interestingly I rode my fastest lap on the 6th attempt in 4:38mins. That was fun, I congratulated myself with a fresh butter tart/chocolate milk from the farm store at the top and a ribeye steak for dinner. Cheers GCN
i liked the bit at 8:52 where si is drafting the car like a shifty vincenzo nibali, albeit without the souplesse. that's the kind of gamesmanship i recognise and respect 😂
I tried Oliver’s Mount yesterday on my giant propel which is 8-10% at times on 36 front and 25 rear and I was 18.5 Stone just six months ago, ok I’m slow but I got up it. I hate hills but they’re getting easier. One day I may have a go at this but I’m not quite there yet
Very good! I enjoyed that one folks. Makes me think that this would be an excellent challenge as a prep work out for Cyclocross season... Uh, if there is one this year?
2300ft to be exact. On a 0.2 mi hill (nothing big around here). Although, I should have chosen my gravel bike instead of my road bike due to how rough the climb was and it's disc brakes.
Ollie's idea is ace, I live in the bottom of a giant half-pipe. What's better is there are roundabouts at the top of each climb (Rawdon JCT roundabout, And then Eccleshill by the Co-op). Only problem is there are a few lights, but I did make some strava segments for the repeated efforts.
Outside of Ollie's trick of the halfpipe, there would still have to be an advantage to having one long not necessarily steep and not technical on the descent climb. You don't lose your momentum with all of the u-turns....it would take some scouting and proper guess work on when you should turn around to ensure that you make it back to the bottom before the hour is up. If you could closely approximate your climbing velocity and descending velocity, you should be able to pick turn around point with a reasonable level of accuracy. If you get back down before the time is up then head back up to get a few more metres in.
Several years ago I did a ride with my local cycling club. We we from the West Midlands to Derbyshire. The ride started and finished in the same car park. We did a loop, not out and back. To this day I still have no idea how we could do a ride that starts and finishes in the same place and have done more uphill than downhill.
Do a little googling on GPS drift. It’s probably just the way the satellites were that day. I can ride the same route with another person on a different brand GPS head unit and we get surprisingly different results.
I did a ride in Canada once that generally downhill both ways. Canmore to Banff along some MTB train(Goat Creek? Cougar Creek?) then back along a cycle path next to route 1 or whatever they call it. Spectacular scenery.
As usual, a great video but RUclips managed to squeeze 4 commercials into it. The adverts are becoming more frequent and despite me giving them a "thumbs down", still get repeated. They are starting to spoil the enjoyment of all your hard work.
Congrats to all on such fine performances and, well, I was hoping Ollie would win. And maybe now a trophy for the mantle and a mention as the GCN Rider of the Week? And I look forward to hearing more from him about it, the occasional references to his uphill hour record among GCN Presenters.
Gave it a tester with an Ollie style coast up to turn. Not full on, but still putting in some effort. Slightly disadvantaged on the downhill parts, as my bike decided to self convert to one by, but at least it was stuck in the small ring for the climb. I thought the turnarounds would be the dodgy part, but it was the person reversing out of their drive onto the road that nearly got me....although someone else did overtake me on the down hill only to slam on their brakes when they could not go round a parked car. At least I could anticipate that one, but the reverse out a drive was literally from left field. Anyway to get to the point, 543m from someone in their second half century.
I've got a climb near me with ~800m at 12% and ~300m at 9%, der Rammersbergssteig. Just did it as part of my tour today. Gonna try convince some of my cyclist group to do the challenge with me next weekend hehe
So, what are the rules for the challenge exactly? Turn around when the clock reaches one hour or is it be at your starting point when the clock reaches one hour? Is there a penalty if you exceed one hour (calculated from your avg VAM)?
I'm fortunate to live close to several monster climbs, so I would still do one big climb and try to time the descent right. I'm a really cautious, slow descender though. My best climbs going up for a solid hour put me around 915. Not all that amazing, but it is what it is. If I had to figure in descending, I'd probably need to leave about 12 minutes to get back down so I'm guessing I'd be around 840 or so.
According to Strava: "VAM measures your Vertical Ascent in Meters/hour - it measures how quickly you are traveling upward. VAM is useful for comparing your effort on different hills and segments, and is used by both cyclists and runners. To get a high VAM score, grades between 6-10% generally present the best opportunity to ascend quickly, as they are steep enough to avoid wind, and gradual enough to allow unrestricted motion."
As steep as possible that still allows you to keep a good cadence. Anything flatter than that, and you're just wasting energy moving in the horizontal direction.
I was wondering the same thing. Looking at some of my own ride data for long climbs, I can see that for similar power, steeper looks better (up to as much as 12% for the power range I looked at), agreeing with Bill in Houston's comment. A better question might be, what is the optimum climbing time for a given gradient vs recovery on the downhill? What does my power curve look like? Because I am recovering on the descent, how much over my FTP can I go? As well, a steeper climb means a (potentially) faster descent. Oh the possibilities! .... just.... choose your location and time wisely.
Great effort ...tried to ride uphill to my girlfriend this summer, but the last part is so steep, I never made it even im my lowest gear...gonna try to loose loose some weight now and then....
I have 2 local hills picked out....one up-and-down (88m and 2.5km loop), and one with a U-bottom like Ollie's advantage (142m with 4km loop). All I need now...training, muscles and lungs B)
There is a reason Ollie has a PhD. He is one smart cookie and he thinks and asks questions before he rides.
Challenge completed this morning: 607m, 14yr old Son did 732m! We chose a steep local climb called Stapleton Castle with an average gradient of 10% over 1km. Looking forward to lunch now!
Great effort Mark! Top work!
Simon: "No excuse, we can all have a go at the Uphill Hour"
Dutch people: excuse me?
Just have to go over an overpass again and again and again...
When I want to ride hills I always cross the border into the Netherlands. Best climbs in the region. Can recommend.
Works great in the Limburg region. Have a go at Keutenberg ;) (Cauberg is more famous, but much easier.)
@@mx2000 Florida hill climbs!
VAMberg here we go
The thought of Manon keeping her hr between 180-190 for an hour is scary. I would probably have a cardiac arrest trying to sustain such hr for so long. Good records set by all 👍
She didn't, she averaged 170 something.
Oh yeah like that’s a breeze! Only 171, that’s a real effort.
Heart rate is very individual. A number that is in the death zone for you may be hard tempo for another.
Ah, to be young.
Usually I average 210
Right, just need to find a decent hill now. Once the data is all in, it’ll be interesting to see what the GCN-fan average is.
944m for an ex-track sprinter is pretty damned good. Well done, Manon
The most shameless shenanigans since Lloydy pulled out an ebike on the Angliru!
Asinine
Me to wife "I could do this on the in and out of the valley, don't waste the downhill momentum by stopping to turn round", Ollie 30 seconds later "I'm going to ride a giant half pipe".
You're married to Alex Dowsett?
@@TomK32 sounds like it😂
Simon ,exhaling and inhaling pretty fast: I’m okay
That’s basically the definition of type 2 fun
Lol.
I have a short loop in my neighborhood that is either up or down, no flat. I ride it as the first day of each training block. Keeping track of laps and time is a great way to measure your progress. The next two days are long intervals and then short intervals. I have been doing this for over 40 years.
Si what happened to “don’t ride where you drive”? Looks like a busy hill to me!
Naish hill is generally only busy on weekday mornings cause its a cut through used by commuters... Si chose to ride it on a weekday morning ahaha
That's why he probably hasn't ridden it since 2012...
With all these videos on hill climbs challenges, assuming your next video series will be on knee rehabilitation?
or amputation, lol
Lobotomy more like!
Yesterday I gave it a go and did 600m in 1hr 10 min, I know I went over. Have a way to go to catch up to you two. Kudos!!!
Love this idea! I knew by the end of the video exactly where I was going to go next weekend. Also love how clever Ollie was.
Si: at this point I'm ok
His heart rate: are u sure about that?
*Off Camera Shouting*: "come on Manon!"
*Me*: Looks for somebody to pass the football to.
I suspect thousands of attempts will include riders voicing out loud in between gasps "Sy, When do I get to the "Weirdly Enjoyable" part?"
A SOLID VICTORY FOR MULLETS!
Ollie reminded me of dastardly off wacky races then!
Also, ever since Matt left there's been a hole in his place on the GCN show. But I feel like that hole has practically disappeared now... Manon, Ollie and Si make a fantastic presenting team (and of course Dan too! Where was his attempt though?!).
Connor has been a great addition too!
Dan has retired from cycling .
what he got left , is his Monday show.😁
I think Manon has potential but she needs to relax. Tries a little too hard. Ollie has come into his own since loosening up
Great Video well done for finding something new that we all can try, Naish hill is not nice! Thanks
Knowing how Baldrick's cunning plans always turned out, I was really concerned about Ollie's... ;-)
true, but it also wasn't his plan.
All recent GCN videos taught me one thing: weather in UK sucks! :p
We had beautiful weather april May and June ! Now it's July and should be the best month of the year and it keeps raining
Thank you folks for putting this honest effort. Enjoyed watching it and one day will try it myself. The moral winner is Simon though. Kudos to All! ~ Rinoni.
Si's heavy breathing was scarier than the task🥵
No kidding... I was asking myself what his heart rate must’ve been... geezus...
Turn it up loud enough and the neighbours will start to raise eyebrows...
GCN : no one does it better 💋💋💋
the bikepacker 🤣🤣🤣
last week doing hill reps. 13 x Muswell Hill in approx 60 mins, and thats 780m.....but i am 52...
Laughed so much at Ollie's cheekiness 😄
Good work all three of you. Ollie's half pipe is truly an advantage. But hey, if the rules allow, then Ollie is a smart man!
North hill in Colchester , .0.3 km Kom is 32 seconds , 25 metre elevation , my best time is 58 seconds !
Went up that hill 5 times in one day and had enough 😂 !
Going up the hill 40 times would = 1000 metres !
Respect to the GSN presenters
These hill challenges are "hill areas" and that Clapton place-name is apt for getting clapped-out! Phew! 😁
A surprise ending with an Oliie victory. Now my day is complete. Well done all of you.
...being a commuter/tourer type, will try on my local...ummm, "incline" on my Dawes Horizon with a pannier and handle bar bag as this lark looks like a right challenge! Might even move me into buying an endurance bike..thus pushing me toward a more MAMIL type experience!👍🤣🚴🇬🇧 Love the channel!👍
I live in Florida, I'm wondering how many times I'd have to ride the main street bridge.......probably not.....
Ollie for the win! As with any new competition or game like this, the rules end up being formalized over time as the smarter people find loopholes so that it’s an even playing field and people end up having to do the same thing. For me, that would mean riding up and down the same hill. Well played though Ollie!
Will give it a go next weekend. I’m 47, most likely not as good a rider as most here and am on chemotherapy but there’s no way I’m going to let this challenge pass by and not try it.
Scottish mountains over 3000ft (915m) are called Munros and over 2000ft (610m) as Corbets.
Club Challenge - are you a Corbet, Munro or a Nevis
Definitely going to try this! I have the perfect road just a few blocks from my house!
Jeez I’ve never been this early to a GCN video, good morning treat though 😁
Where do you find "the rule book" for this challenge?
I HATE GOING UPHILL, especially on long stretches that are just the right incline to make it hard to find an appropriate gear to be in. It always seems you’re either in too high or too low a gear. Nothing ever feels comfortable. It doesn’t help either when you’re in blistering 90-100°F heat with the sun beating down on you.
Straight block 21-12 & a 22t granny ring from a 90s mountain bike triple crankset will do.
If Ollie's allowed to use momentum then I want to see the results of a BMXer doing it on a proper halfpipe.
🤮 One hour on a half pipe will get very messy 😵
Somebody call Blake from GMBN!
I think that is a fantastic idea @gmbn
Will gas out halfway
I'm thinking a pump track, and rarely turning the pedals.
Very interesting challenge I'm going to give it a go
Was thinking of doing this but on my hybrid bike
Could have a go at it on my comfort bike. I have a suitable nearby hill.
@@kippen64 that would be a solid challenge
The best test and therapy lies in pulling a trailer with gallons of water and your 10month son back from the grocery store with a 52 by 32 for the lowest uphill.
When i take the trailer off its somewhat like a muscle car.
Why didn’t we see more of Ollie’s challenge? He’s so funny I would have liked to see more
That because that is more porny hear Si breath and that give more thumbs up ;))
Looks like fun! And by "fun" I mean very painful and I would hate every moment of it.
I have to try that.
Think Si won, numbers say other wise but think that had he completed the same route as Ollie he would have obliterated his numbers
Crikey, if I did Frocester Hill on my PR’s I’d only manage 750 meters. Hats off to you boys and girls. But then I’m also dragging 14.5 stone and my sorry arse up the hills!!
There is a nice 8 mile hill that at the bottom is roundabout. That would help you maintain momentum at turn of the ride.
Love these competition videos.
Enjoyed watching you three. Thanks for sharing the pain.
I followed up on this challenge last week!
I rode Sydenham St. (1.4km @ 8%, 115m) Dundas, ON. Canada, 8 times for a VAM of 850. Interestingly I rode my fastest lap on the 6th attempt in 4:38mins.
That was fun, I congratulated myself with a fresh butter tart/chocolate milk from the farm store at the top and a ribeye steak for dinner. Cheers GCN
i liked the bit at 8:52 where si is drafting the car like a shifty vincenzo nibali, albeit without the souplesse. that's the kind of gamesmanship i recognise and respect 😂
I tried Oliver’s Mount yesterday on my giant propel which is 8-10% at times on 36 front and 25 rear and I was 18.5 Stone just six months ago, ok I’m slow but I got up it. I hate hills but they’re getting easier. One day I may have a go at this but I’m not quite there yet
Plus just did a 100 solo at the weekend at 20.5mph average so a bit worn out
*picks up phone
"Hey dad, how you doing? Can I borrow your e-bike?"
"3, 2, 1... Oh my god!": that's me every time I attempt a new challenge in my life 5:04
Very good! I enjoyed that one folks. Makes me think that this would be an excellent challenge as a prep work out for Cyclocross season... Uh, if there is one this year?
Manon: Going to aim for about 190bpm for the hour
Me: Can't even reach 185bpm for a second
2300ft to be exact. On a 0.2 mi hill (nothing big around here). Although, I should have chosen my gravel bike instead of my road bike due to how rough the climb was and it's disc brakes.
Ollie's idea is ace, I live in the bottom of a giant half-pipe. What's better is there are roundabouts at the top of each climb (Rawdon JCT roundabout, And then Eccleshill by the Co-op). Only problem is there are a few lights, but I did make some strava segments for the repeated efforts.
I'm really looking forward to doing this!!!
Outside of Ollie's trick of the halfpipe, there would still have to be an advantage to having one long not necessarily steep and not technical on the descent climb. You don't lose your momentum with all of the u-turns....it would take some scouting and proper guess work on when you should turn around to ensure that you make it back to the bottom before the hour is up. If you could closely approximate your climbing velocity and descending velocity, you should be able to pick turn around point with a reasonable level of accuracy. If you get back down before the time is up then head back up to get a few more metres in.
Just loving Your ideas 💡 awesome effort
Had my first go, trying to regain some fitness approaching summer. Managed 25km and 660m, I'm pretty happy with that considering my low power output.
Several years ago I did a ride with my local cycling club. We we from the West Midlands to Derbyshire. The ride started and finished in the same car park. We did a loop, not out and back. To this day I still have no idea how we could do a ride that starts and finishes in the same place and have done more uphill than downhill.
Do a little googling on GPS drift. It’s probably just the way the satellites were that day. I can ride the same route with another person on a different brand GPS head unit and we get surprisingly different results.
I did a ride in Canada once that generally downhill both ways. Canmore to Banff along some MTB train(Goat Creek? Cougar Creek?) then back along a cycle path next to route 1 or whatever they call it.
Spectacular scenery.
As usual, a great video but RUclips managed to squeeze 4 commercials into it. The adverts are becoming more frequent and despite me giving them a "thumbs down", still get repeated. They are starting to spoil the enjoyment of all your hard work.
Nice mullet Ollie 🤙🏼 bring it back
What bike is Si riding? An Orbea..... what? Thanks!
Congrats to all on such fine performances and, well, I was hoping Ollie would win. And maybe now a trophy for the mantle and a mention as the GCN Rider of the Week? And I look forward to hearing more from him about it, the occasional references to his uphill hour record among GCN Presenters.
I did this challenge yesterday but only just watching the video now haha. I enjoyed it and up for going back and doing it again to get a better score.
I also was stuck to a 36x23 as I don't ever use the small chainring in Berlin. But it wasn't too bad.
Naish is simply the worst Hill ever - I hate it...! Great video! Good to see Simon smashing it up there so strongly!
Yes Ollie! Science!
"go on Manon! Bababap!!!" 😂
I’ll realistically never attempt an Everesting, but this is something nearly anyone can do. And I’ve got a perfect road to try it on too!
Gave it a tester with an Ollie style coast up to turn. Not full on, but still putting in some effort. Slightly disadvantaged on the downhill parts, as my bike decided to self convert to one by, but at least it was stuck in the small ring for the climb. I thought the turnarounds would be the dodgy part, but it was the person reversing out of their drive onto the road that nearly got me....although someone else did overtake me on the down hill only to slam on their brakes when they could not go round a parked car. At least I could anticipate that one, but the reverse out a drive was literally from left field. Anyway to get to the point, 543m from someone in their second half century.
Great vid Si!
You guys have still got it!!! I gave this a little go, managed 617m 🥵
Love the half pipe trick brilliant
When I see Simon in a vid I click. Simple
The dislike button?
@@johnoakleymusic why are you so negative?
Damn good Orbea ad. The bike's awesome and the model...too.
I've got a climb near me with ~800m at 12% and ~300m at 9%, der Rammersbergssteig. Just did it as part of my tour today. Gonna try convince some of my cyclist group to do the challenge with me next weekend hehe
it is a pity that Emma is no longer a presenter as she would have obliterated everyone - seeing as she is now the everesting queen.
I think I'll be trying this too!
May I point out a spelling error? Is "Velocitá", and not "velicitia"!
First attempt: 2601 ft @ 181lbs/49 yrs old. Up a shorter, steeper local climb. We have a good half pipe which I hope to do this coming weekend!
Oli, who did you speak to for hair style advice? Surely there's still some aero gains to be made?
Ollie really is the best thing to happen to GCN!
So, what are the rules for the challenge exactly? Turn around when the
clock reaches one hour or is it be at your starting point when the clock
reaches one hour? Is there a penalty if you exceed one hour (calculated
from your avg VAM)?
I'm fortunate to live close to several monster climbs, so I would still do one big climb and try to time the descent right. I'm a really cautious, slow descender though. My best climbs going up for a solid hour put me around 915. Not all that amazing, but it is what it is. If I had to figure in descending, I'd probably need to leave about 12 minutes to get back down so I'm guessing I'd be around 840 or so.
In all the years of watching GCN I can honestly say I don't think I've ever heard Si that out of breath
I just noticed Sy's new gcn kit just arrived 😂
I’d like to know what is the optimum gradient to achieve the best result? Gradual and fast or just steep and grind....
According to Strava: "VAM measures your Vertical Ascent in Meters/hour - it measures how quickly you are traveling upward. VAM is useful for comparing your effort on different hills and segments, and is used by both cyclists and runners. To get a high VAM score, grades between 6-10% generally present the best opportunity to ascend quickly, as they are steep enough to avoid wind, and gradual enough to allow unrestricted motion."
As steep as possible that still allows you to keep a good cadence. Anything flatter than that, and you're just wasting energy moving in the horizontal direction.
I was wondering the same thing. Looking at some of my own ride data for long climbs, I can see that for similar power, steeper looks better (up to as much as 12% for the power range I looked at), agreeing with Bill in Houston's comment. A better question might be, what is the optimum climbing time for a given gradient vs recovery on the downhill? What does my power curve look like? Because I am recovering on the descent, how much over my FTP can I go? As well, a steeper climb means a (potentially) faster descent. Oh the possibilities! .... just.... choose your location and time wisely.
Felt guilty watching this while eating a piece of toast. Chapeau!
Great effort ...tried to ride uphill to my girlfriend this summer, but the last part is so steep, I never made it even im my lowest gear...gonna try to loose loose some weight now and then....
I have 2 local hills picked out....one up-and-down (88m and 2.5km loop), and one with a U-bottom like Ollie's advantage (142m with 4km loop). All I need now...training, muscles and lungs B)
what would be better....shorter and steeper climb....or longer and more gradual climb ? (both climbs cover the same elevation gain)
I love cycling with all my heart but I absolutely hate climbing. Maybe it's my bike or I just don't have the lungs
It's the bike.
My bike can not do climbing also.
Having light enough gears really helps so you’re not grinding a heavy gear and damaging your knees
wow those new GCN jerseys are dope !
That was good that was, almost like a GCN vid before Matt Stevens left!
I haven’t been riding much, but looks like it’s about time to put the emonda to its ultimate test.
If my math is correct, Ollie would complete the Everett Challenge in 6:58:20 if he was able to keep up that place.
Everesting does not allow a run up I understand.....
The Kenny Everett Challenge?