Just a quick entry here. I've been looking around the internet for cycling routes around my area, whereby some form of time records exist for various known routes. However, I can not seem to find many at all.
So if anyone else wants to compare thier times with mine, here is one of my favourite routes, which loads of cyclists around the Calderdale / Littleborough area will be familiar with.
Basically, it is a loop, whereby my starting point is from the "Bridge" (Todmorden Road / Halifax Road Junction) in Littleborough centre, going clock-wise towards Todmorden, through Walsden, into Tod, then swinging right towards Hebden Bridge and then Mytholmroyd to the begining of the "longest continuous hill climb in England",through and up Cragg Vale then taking a right turn at the top back down to the "bridge" towards Rochdale, past the Whitehouse Pub at Blackstone Edge.
One of the quickest times I have to date, split into three sections are as follows:
Bridge to begining of incline(The actual sign) (Cragg Road) = 33 mins 14 seconds
To top of incline (turning) = 27 mins 22 seconds
Descent to bottom = 5 mins 55 seconds
total time for loop = 66 mins 31 seconds.
This loop is approx 20.2 miles, although according to GPS / Google Earth and Trip computer and be plus or minus about 0.2 mile! This is approx an average speed of 18.2 MPH.
Total ascent for the trip is about 360 M (approx 1200 feet).
My second entry is the climb from the bridge in the opposite direction up blackstone edge road to the whitehouse front door! This quickest time being 13 minutes flat. (On a decent, expensive road bike!)
And especially for the loop, traffic lights, general traffic and wind are all major factors in how well you do this circuit!
Feel free to leave your best times so I can go beat them when I can afford a decent bike! Some people may think the loop time isn't that great, but this is due to the fact that I don't have a decent road bike yet, this is my old mountain bike fitted with 1.50 road tyres on it, and it weighs over 13Kg in total............
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