Not doing that much climbing last week, I decided today to make the climb up Squaw Peak twice.  This climb is similar to the backside of Mt Hamilton in terms of distance and average grade.  The first time I pushed hard to see if I could set a new best time on the climb.  I was able to shave more than 30 seconds off, even though I we did a 111 mile century ride yesterday on the tandem.  The nice thing about finding a new hill to climb is you can set a new PR.  I have started to add a parameter to my tables to show the feet of climbing per minute.  For thie climb today it came out to be 50 ft/min.  My best times up Metcalf this year comes out to be 64 feet per minute but that is a much shorter climb.  My hill repeats up Thomas Grade also come in more than 60 feet per minute.  Considering a 32 minute climb I was very happy I could climb 50 feet per minute.

I took a look at my climbs up the backside of Mt. Hamilton.  These were part of a long ride and I was not pushing the pace but show them here as a comparision.

Categories: Speed Workout, Training Log