{"id":382,"date":"2013-08-03T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T18:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/?p=382"},"modified":"2013-08-11T20:42:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-11T19:42:49","slug":"a-diy-by-gps-100km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"A DIY by GPS 100km"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As I have entered my first 200km audax ride (the Rutland Ramble<\/a>) next weekend and I am thinking of riding it on fixed wheel, I thought that I should try riding over the hilly section beforehand, to give me a little confidence that fixed is not a stupid idea.<\/p>\n

I mapped out the 200km \u00a0ride last night and reckoned that the third 50km from Wistow to Elton would be the hilliest. As that is quite close to me, I decided to ride out to Wiston (just south of Leicester) and back as a DIY-by-GPS<\/a> 100km audax covering the hilliest section of the Rutland Ramble from km96 to km134.<\/p>\n

The gear I have installed at the moment is 63″ (48×20), which is on the low side but I am working on improving leg speed and general cadio fitness rather than achieving the best road speed. Quite a good gear for hills, going up that is, currently the worst thing about cycling up a steep hill is knowing that there will be a downhill on the other side! I am comfortable up to 25mph, and can manage 28mph happily as long as I can see the end of the hill. The max top speed in this gear is around 30mph, but for only short periods of time as this equates to almost 180rpm.<\/p>\n

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Down into Harringworth.<\/p><\/div>\n

Although the steepest hill today was a 1:7 (one arrow on the OS map), it didn’t have a sign so I only snapped the two gradient signs I did see. I went both up and down all three hills – down was worse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I have entered my first 200km audax ride (the Rutland Ramble) next weekend and I am thinking of riding it on fixed wheel, I thought that I should try riding over the hilly section beforehand, to give me a little confidence that fixed is not a stupid idea. I mapped out the 200km \u00a0ride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audax","category-cycling","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrtoone.com\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}