{"id":2346,"date":"2015-09-28T10:59:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T15:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerandonneurs.org\/nersite\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2015-09-29T12:35:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:35:17","slug":"just-how-hard-is-this-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ner.bike\/nersite\/?p=2346","title":{"rendered":"Just how hard is this ride?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is a table of routes used recently showing the approximate amount of climbing as determined by RideWithGPS. See footnote below.<\/em> This chart should give riders a rough idea of a difficulty of different routes but take it with a BIG grain of salt — average climbing is only one element of a ride’s difficulty and can be deceptive.<\/p>\n

Note that climbing is based on the actual distance, not the “advertised” distance. Generally rides are 2-10 miles longer than the advertised (200k, 300k, etc) distance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Route Name<\/th>Length<\/th>Start Location<\/th>Ft\/Mile<\/th>Total (Ft)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Dighton Rock (MA 200k 2015)<\/td>200k<\/td>Bedford, MA<\/td>36.9<\/td>4659<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Overnight 200k<\/td>200k<\/td>Lexington, MA<\/td>41.6<\/td>5230<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Trails of Groton<\/td>100k<\/td>Medford, MA<\/td>42.6<\/td>2802<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boneyard 100k<\/td>100k<\/td>Westford, MA<\/td>44.0<\/td>2933<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paris-Brest-Paris<\/b><\/td>1200k<\/td>France<\/td>48.2<\/td>37073<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boston-Montreal-Boston<\/b><\/td>1200k<\/td>Newton, MA<\/td>48.6<\/td>36204<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sterling Populaire<\/td>107k<\/td>Bedford, MA<\/td>48.8<\/td>3322<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Meredith 400k<\/td>400k<\/td>Bedford, MA<\/td>49.3<\/td>12548<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Voluntown, CT 300k<\/td>300k<\/td>Bedford, MA<\/td>52.0<\/td>9792<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North Country (VT 600k 2015)<\/td>600k<\/td>Montpelier, VT<\/td>52.4<\/td>19864<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oh Canada! (VT 400k 2015)<\/td>400k<\/td>Woodstock, VT<\/td>52.5<\/td>13188<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Green Mountain (VT 200k 2015)<\/td>200k<\/td>Middlesex, VT<\/td>53.0<\/td>6715<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New Boston (MA 200k 2014)<\/td>200k<\/td>Bedford, MA<\/td>53.9<\/td>6873<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Williamstown (MA 600k 2015)<\/td>600k<\/td>Bedford, MA<\/td>54.9<\/td>20747<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunderland (MA 300k 2015)<\/td>300k<\/td>Bedford, MA<\/td>56.9<\/td>10984<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Montpelier 400k (VT 400k 2014)<\/td>400k<\/td>Montpelier, VT<\/td>58.2<\/td>14473<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Downeast 1000k<\/td>1000k<\/td>Montpelier, VT<\/td>58.2<\/td>37401<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tweedo's Revenge<\/td>200k<\/td>Bedford, MA<\/td>61.3<\/td>7729<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gilette Castle* (MA 400k 2015)<\/td>400k<\/td>Bedford, MA<\/td>64.7<\/td>16769<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fall Classic 110k<\/td>110k<\/td>Montpelier, VT<\/td>72.8<\/td>4974<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Northeast Kingdom (VT 300k 2015)<\/td>300k<\/td>Montpelier, VT<\/td>73.0<\/td>13959<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Piedmont Populaire<\/td>100k<\/td>Montpelier, VT<\/td>73.8<\/td>4659<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fall Classic 200k<\/td>200k<\/td>Montpelier, VT<\/td>86.3<\/td>10712<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Goose Green<\/td>200k<\/td>Montpelier, VT<\/td>100.0<\/td>12831<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

* It has been noted that RWGPS appears to have overstated the hills of this ride as some rider’s GPSs log closer to 13,500 ft of climbing. Differences like this are common; generally mapping applications overestimate elevation, occasionally by a high margin. (Mapping software calculates based on the concours of the soil and won’t take into account bridges and road cut-outs which would significantly save on climbing.) <\/p>\n

Simply put, the table should be seen as a extremely rough guide to difficultly. For example, an out-and-back 300k with a smooth 3% incline for 1\/2 the distance and a 3% decline on the return would appear to be difficult with 15,000+ ft of climbing (81.3 ft\/mile) yet most would consider it a nearly flat and easy route.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below is a table of routes used recently showing the approximate amount of climbing as determined by RideWithGPS. See footnote below. This chart should give riders a rough idea of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ner.bike\/nersite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ner.bike\/nersite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ner.bike\/nersite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ner.bike\/nersite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ner.bike\/nersite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ner.bike\/nersite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/ner.bike\/nersite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ner.bike\/nersite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ner.bike\/nersite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ner.bike\/nersite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}