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March 30, 2005
Climbs
Matt, who rode up to Col du Coq today and got a flat 500 m from the end, located a nice Italian site for bikers in Europe.
File of the slopes of Europe has links to data on literally thousands of climbs. For the Col de Granier it shows four. The one I did last fall up from Chapareillan rates a difficulty of 135.75. It has one kilometer that drops 3.1%, but unfortunately the kilometer after that gains 17.9%.
The one Matt did today has a difficulty of 128.26, slightly more than Alpe d'Huez, which is what they did in the Tour.
Matt's aiming at doing the 12.8 km Col du Coq climb, gaining just about 1100 m altitude, in 53 minutes. I'd definitely have to lose about 20 kg without losing muscle mass to follow him uphill at that rate.
If you want a dismayingly hard climb, check out Nebelhorn.
Posted by Mark at March 30, 2005 09:04 PM