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Gibbet Hill (277 m / 909 ft)
Leith Hill (299 m / 981 ft, 5 km / 3 miles south of Dorking, the highest hill in Southeast England)
I win Bear!
where's Gibbet Hill??
Gibbet has the highest road but it is a busy road and there are no nice routes up it. Also it does not have a decent starting place to climb from, you start quite high.
Early days for me on a bike as far as hills are concerned - I'm going to do lots of them as training for Austria. No idea how hilly that is in comparison - will dig out the profile at some point.
Happychap and I are off for a ride tomorrow afternoon up Box Hill if anyone fancies joining us?
Even with a profile it can be hard to tell unless you actually ride it.
It always seems to me that you can never really tell how a hill goes until you have gone down it as well.
I'm actually really enjoying the biking - quite surprised
Over Gibbet hill way, the best climb looks to be the A287 from Churt up to Hindhead, 174mts over 4.4kms. Main road though so it's going to be busy. Here
Heres one of my favorites over my way, 175mts over 3kms
(Don't tell anyone but I'm not enjoying the biking that much. Don't know why... but this year the longer rides just seem to have ground me down worse than longer runs ever have... maybe I've taken on a little too much a little too quickly... ignore me - I'll just go sit in the corner and rust!)
This is quite a nice local one - comparatively short but hard work How Lane
I think the challenge is what I like about it too - saying "I beat the hill"
I know How lane, I was working on the school at the corner this week. Closer to you then may be White Hill lane and Hilltop lane over the back of Chaldon, Linked by this road
White hill in particular is excellent, especially if you do it all the way from place farm road. It just gets steeper and steeper and ends with a 20+ % section.
I forgot to build in Coldharbour Lane (Leith Hill) as well - that can come on the extended route ;o)
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If hills are friends, you want to be trying the Tour of the Surrey Hills route, which is described (if I've got the hang of setting up links yet) here, and the route is described here
Anyone know the total climb for IM Austria? It doesn't look anything like as bad from what I can see - just two main hills (they've changed the route apparently to 2 x 90km laps)
I'm not going to be able to join you this afternoon but I would be interested in meeting up for some longer ride over the next few months. I live in the Epsom area and I'm also in training for IM Austria next year.
I'm only doing 30-40 miles once a week at the moment but most of my rides tend to be around Box Hill.
The more the merrier
including a Box Hill double ascent, and see rather fun descents down Tot Hill (I think) and Lodgebottom Road.
did about 25 of those miles with Happychap, who was excellent company :oD