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I WANT TO CLIMB KAISER

Last post 04-30-2008 8:59 AM by Bob Papazian. 2 replies.
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  • 04-26-2008 4:43 PM

    I WANT TO CLIMB KAISER

    Okay here is the deal...Saddle time is not a problem, but training on hills is. I need someone who has climb Kaiser and is willing to put in a little time coaching me on time and miles during the week on my own, but riding with me on a sat (but that is team time) so sunday and taking me on some hills... I want hills that prepare me for the climb. I adjust and condition quickly, but I know there is only 10 weeks to Kaiser... Can ANYONE at help me ..... and Gina E.

    Thanks,

    Tracy

    • The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget.
  • 04-26-2008 11:27 PM In reply to

    two year plan

    I have NOT done Climb to Kaiser, save by way of helping support the ride, and over the last few years, photograph it, but regardless I have become familiar with what sort of training would be necessary to successfully complete what remains the premier distance ride of the Central Valley. To have a chance of completing C2K, one should have completed at least one hilly hundred mile ride, in six hours or less. By that I would mean a century ride with at least 7500 feet of climbing.

    The first two C2K climbs can be sampled via the classic "balloon on a string" ride, Shaw and Academy out Watts Valley Road to tackle Wildcat:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/72085627@N00/755133527/in/set-72157600717992262/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/72085627@N00/749330078/in/set-72157600717992262/ 

    then up Burrough Valley Road, down to Humphry Station, with a return via Snowman, which I recall as being around sixty miles.  If you can do that ride in four or so hours, then you're in a position to consider training to at least tackle this year's Tollhouse Century, which adds to those two climbs an even harder one, Old Tollhouse.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/72085627@N00/773821339/in/set-72157600717992262/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/72085627@N00/749330062/in/set-72157600717992262/

    Beyond that, at least in years past, the club sponsoring C2K, Fresno Cycling Club, would schedule specific training rides, some of which sample the upper climbs, including the real crux of the venture, the Big Creek Climb (which is actually Huntington Lake Road), followed by the dash to the pass itself:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/72085627@N00/774821382/in/set-72157600717992262/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/72085627@N00/767110014/in/set-72157600717992262/

    Anyway, there are MANY CVCCA members who have actually done C2K, who can advise you whether it would be realistic for you to consider trying the ride this year, or whether a carefully planned series of increasingly more difficult century and double metric rides, culminating in C2K 2009, might be more realistic.

     

     

     

  • 04-30-2008 8:59 AM In reply to

    Re: I WANT TO CLIMB KAISER

    Do not underestimate this ride,  for a sample, climb old tollhouse (do not do it alone or unsupported)  then do a repeat. 

    Old tollhouse is easier than Big Creek or the last few miles climbing to the top.   

    Starting your intense climbing this late, I would suggest signing up for the full C2K but PLAN on completing the 100. on your first try .  when you get to the Shaver rest spot, if you thought that so far it was no big deal  THEN GO FOR THE TOP!

    If you are a climber ,this ride is just plain nasty; if you are not, then it is 15 hours of pain.

    bob p 

     

    DO, or do not. There is no TRY !!
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