Thanks for uploading this. I'm curious, does your gps do alt or percent grade? I chatted with someone at camp who told me the hill after the second bridge on day one was 18%. I'm curious how steep the one good hill on day two was (I'm sure you know the one I'm referring to, it was a good one! haha).
My GPS tracks both elevation and % grade at about 20 second intervals - but the software I load it into interpolates all of the data and gives me good information.
On day 1 there were 2 "major" climbs, and on day 2, there was just the one "not so bad" climb...
Climb #1 - Appleby line near Bronte Creek bridge - started at 60.5km and climbing ended at 66.8km, for a total of 6.3km of climbing. During that time there was a total elevation change of 141m, for an average climb of 2.3% (yeah, the guys in the Tour de France climb 10%+ mountains for longer than that...). During the climb, the steepest part was 9.3% grade.
Climb #2 - the Hamilton "Mountain" began to go up just before the turn onto Main St. / Wilson St. - at 91.4km, and the main climb ended at 97.8km - a total distance of 6.4km. During that climb, there was an elevation change of 148m, again a 2.3% average grade. Although most riders thought this was the worst climb of all - it had the same average grade, and the steepest point was just 6.9%. The difference was that it was roughly the same average climbing rate for the whole climb, without flat / near flat sections to let you recover.
Climb #3, on Day 2, near the bridge on 1st St. South (just after turning off Pelham road) was the worst of the 3 climbs. If you look at the elevation graph, there were two parts - the first section was very steep, then it was not so steep for quite a while longer. The first part of the climb began at 68.5km, and lasted 1.25km, with an elevation change of 69.4m - an average grade of 5.5%, with a maximum grade of 17.0% (ugh!). The total climb, including the steep and not so steep section was just a shade over 5km long, and had a total elevation change of 114.2m - or an average for the whole climb of (again!) 2.3%.
Just think, next year we'll be prepared, and we'll all have done lots of hill training - piece of cake ! (yeah, right. That's what I said after last year's ride, and I still suffered all the way up all three of the climbs - and a whole bunch of little ones too...).
