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@Jason B 70674 wrote:
Funny, I felt the same way about the diabolical double, a lot of disjointed hills stuck together, essentially hill after hill, with little character, no racing flats to break up the monotony. Although, the hardest thing I ever did by far, it was tedious after a while. I’m skipping it for other fondos with a good mixture.
Oh huh
Maybe the DD isn’t going to be the fun I had hoped either then! I suppose anything that takes this long in the saddle is going to feel a little boring (Wilderness 101 felt kinda boring too and certainly had a lot more variation), but I was hoping that DD might be a little more scenic and obviously more elevation. (It sounds like DD is harder too, though certainly I could improve my time greatly on T200, so that isn’t a real requirement.) If Battenkill or Mountains of Misery can be done as a single day outing, perhaps those might make better candidates …@hozn 70683 wrote:
Oh huh
Maybe the DD isn’t going to be the fun I had hoped either then! I suppose anything that takes this long in the saddle is going to feel a little boring (Wilderness 101 felt kinda boring too and certainly had a lot more variation), but I was hoping that DD might be a little more scenic and obviously more elevation. (It sounds like DD is harder too, though certainly I could improve my time greatly on T200, so that isn’t a real requirement.) If Battenkill or Mountains of Misery can be done as a single day outing, perhaps those might make better candidates …A few others on the board also did it and their experience may have been different, but all four of my group felt the same. However, I’m just an average Joe rider and wasn’t attacking anything, so after a while it became a slow 7 mph grind. It may be different for a climber like yourself. The one hill, Killer Miller was pretty amazing. It pops up in the middle of a farm field and it is absolutely brutal. I had to use every once of my strength to not get off my bike. It is pretty hard to squeeze in a flat in 120m with 16k. If you like climbing,you should do it, and don’t let the whining of this fat guy sway you.
@hozn 70683 wrote:
Oh huh
Maybe the DD isn’t going to be the fun I had hoped either then! I suppose anything that takes this long in the saddle is going to feel a little boring (Wilderness 101 felt kinda boring too and certainly had a lot more variation), but I was hoping that DD might be a little more scenic and obviously more elevation. (It sounds like DD is harder too, though certainly I could improve my time greatly on T200, so that isn’t a real requirement.) If Battenkill or Mountains of Misery can be done as a single day outing, perhaps those might make better candidates …It’s climby for sure. There are a couple scenic views (the climb with the chalk writing that tells you to go “Wooooaaaah” when you get to the top and the sky just opens up and you can see for miles was pretty cool…and then it immediately throws you into a 50mph descent.)
Oh and after Killer Miller and the descent into town, it’s recommended that you go off course and go back up the Westernport Wall at least once. (you ride parallel to it downhill so it’s not really out of your way).
And you’ll definitely want to stay over after the DD–it would be a long drive to do on tired legs.
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