"Everesting" In Arlington

[TwoWheelsDC]

By my math, you would have to ride from the river to the top of Powhatan Hill (highest point in Arlington) about 65 times to do it. If I were going to attempt such a feat, I’d either do repeats of 26th from Military to Glebe, or 123 from Glebe up to Crest Lane, although most of that hill is technically in Fairfax County. But I’d wager you’d have to do either hill about 200 times to get 29k+ feet.

[Steve O]

@TwoWheelsDC 91915 wrote:

By my math, you would have to ride from the river to the top of Powhatan Hill (highest point in Arlington) about 65 times to do it. If I were going to attempt such a feat, I’d either do repeats of 26th from Military to Glebe, or 123 from Glebe up to Crest Lane, although most of that hill is technically in Fairfax County. But I’d wager you’d have to do either hill about 200 times to get 29k+ feet.

Or just do Kill Bill 2.2 times.

[dcv]

@Steve O 91916 wrote:

Or just do Kill Bill 2.2 times.

[PeteD]

No, you’re missing the key point to “Everesting”… You have to ride the SAME SEGMENT for 8,848m, in a single 24 hour period.

Here’s the number of climbs you have to do of each of the following:

1) Walter Reed – 119ft – 244 times.
2) Jay Miller- 136ft – 214 times
3) Patrick Henry – 160ft – 182 times
4) Quantico – 100ft – 291 times

Other Segments:
Powhatan Hill – 135ft
Mt Daniel – 77ft
41st St – 106ft
Anglers Hill – 222ft – 130 times.
Woodburn Rd: 224ft
Bluemont: 311ft
Thomasville Rd: 377ft – 86 times.
Mt Weather – 869ft – 33 times.
Coxey Brown – 991ft
Ascent to Dickey Ridge – 1171ft – 24 times.

[dcv]

@PeteD 91928 wrote:

No, you’re missing the key point to “Everesting”… You have to ride the SAME SEGMENT for 8,848m, in a single 24 hour period.

Here’s the number of climbs you have to do of each of the following:

1) Walter Reed – 119ft – 244 times.
2) Jay Miller- 136ft – 214 times
3) Patrick Henry – 160ft – 182 times
4) Quantico – 100ft – 291 times

Other Segments:
Powhatan Hill – 135ft
Mt Daniel – 77ft
41st St – 106ft
Anglers Hill – 222ft – 130 times.
Woodburn Rd: 224ft
Bluemont: 311ft
Thomasville Rd: 377ft – 86 times.
Mt Weather – 869ft – 33 times.
Coxey Brown – 991ft
Ascent to Dickey Ridge – 1171ft – 24 times.

[mwhatley]

Pete is spot on! I especially like the Coxey Brown option. 2 miles/1000 feet of climbing. Now, anyone dumb/crazy enough to do this?? I even made a Strava route so we dont get lost!

[PeteD]

@mwhatley 91933 wrote:

Pete is spot on! I especially like the Coxey Brown option. 2 miles/1000 feet of climbing. Now, anyone dumb/crazy enough to do this?? I even made a Strava route so we dont get lost!

Have you actually ridden Coxey Brown?

[mwhatley]

@PeteD 91934 wrote:

Have you actually ridden Coxey Brown?

Negative. Soooo, put the fixie away for this one, huh?

[PeteD]

@mwhatley 91935 wrote:

Negative. Soooo, put the fixie away for this one, huh?

I haven’t ridden it yet either. More liked rode up, stopped, rode a little bit more, stopped, walked, tried to ride again, failed, walked, then rode the flat part, walked, and finished.

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#63662777 – Start at 6h19m. You can see where I stopped, and walked.

–Pete

[mwhatley]

@PeteD 91936 wrote:

I haven’t ridden it yet either. More liked rode up, stopped, rode a little bit more, stopped, walked, tried to ride again, failed, walked, then rode the flat part, walked, and finished.

http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#63662777 – Start at 6h19m. You can see where I stopped, and walked.

–Pete

Looks rough, very impressive. That said, maybe you’d have more success if you didn’t have 6 hours of riding on your legs by that point!

[TwoWheelsDC]

I’d seriously consider a group siege on Dickey Ridge. Frankly, the amount of time on the bike scares me more than the climbing. It’s about 200 miles of riding, but half would be descending which would help. If you ascended at a modest 5mph, and descended at a modest 15mph, that would leave you with about 4 hours of rest time. No prob!

[ShawnoftheDread]

@PeteD 91934 wrote:

Have you actually ridden Coxey Brown?

No, but it sounds like 30 laps would make an awesome Coxey Brown Everest Challenge Grand Fondo. I challenge DCV to lead the inaugural ride.

[vvill]

It’s insanity, but I must admit I have evaluated Dickey Ridge and Sugarloaf as possible options before. My conclusion was “no way”, but I’d be happy to join a group effort to support the insane.

There are some cool pics from the everesting insta hashtag (remember 1m = 3.28 feet)
http://iconosquare.com/tag/everesting/

[KLizotte]

Megabeth could do it!

[Raymo853]

For those willing to travel and into gravel, you could do this segment. gains 1,131 feet in just 2.2 miles, average grade 9.8%. Riding it 26 times would give you 29,406 feet of climbing in 57 miles of climbing and 57 miles of descending. Sounds like great SM100 training.
http://www.strava.com/segments/1385138?filter=overall

I’ve climbed that segment in 25 mins and descended it (another segment http://www.strava.com/segments/5740499) in 8 mins. So if I could keep up a climbing time of 30 mins (not likely) and descending of 10 min, it would take me (26*30 + 26 *10) or 17 hours and 45 mins.

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