CVCC Mt. Washington HC - 59:37

1059m of climbing over 16.5km. As steep as 14-15% in places, but also with a few short downhill bits to catch your breath in. Best times today where about 47 to 52 minutes.

I went over with John Sullivan who did 59:15 and Michel Pelletier 60:27.

John beat me to the top by a few seconds, 59:14 to get 9th overall. My time was 59:37 to get 10th overall out a a field of 28 male riders. And certainly I think John and I where the first in our general age categories (John is 60-64 age group.)

I thought my power numbers where slightly down, probably due to slow RPM's.. harder to get power up and keep it up. Certainly I felt better and stronger in all of the portions where the grade was lower (say 6% and less.) and put out I think higher numbers there.

Mt Washington HC:

Duration: 59:37
Work: 1067 kJ
TSS: 91 (intensity factor 0.957)
Norm Power: 306
VI: 1.03
Distance: 16.498 km
Elevation Gain: 1059 m
Elevation Loss: 28 m
Grade: 6.3 % (1031 m)
Min Max Avg
Power: 0 777 298 watts
Heart rate: 0 179 103 bpm
Cadence: 40 113 67 rpm
Speed: 4.3 59.5 16.6 kph
Pace 1:01 13:57 3:37 min/km
Altitude: 130 1161 686 m
Crank Torque: 0 102.7 44.2 N-m
Temperature: 14 19 16.7 Celsius

Here for example are two sections about 5 minutes apart just past the middle of the climb showing 300 avg watts over a short section at 7.9% grade and then 277 avg watts over 11.7% grade. Cadence dropped from 73 to 54.

8% avg grade:

Duration: 1:40
Work: 30 kJ
TSS: 2.6 (intensity factor 0.966)
Norm Power: n/a
VI: n/a
Distance: 407 m
Elevation Gain: 31 m
Elevation Loss: 0 m
Grade: 7.9 % (32 m)
Min Max Avg
Power: 190 376 300 watts
Heart rate: 0 170 88 bpm
Cadence: 60 73 66 rpm
Speed: 13.1 15.8 14.6 kph
Pace 3:48 4:35 4:06 min/km
Altitude: 815 846 831 m
Crank Torque: 27.5 59.8 43.6 N-m
Temperature: 17 17 17.0 Celsius

12% avg grade:

Duration: 1:50
Work: 30 kJ
TSS: 2.3 (intensity factor 0.876)
Norm Power: n/a
VI: n/a
Distance: 301 m
Elevation Gain: 34 m
Elevation Loss: 0 m
Grade: 11.7 % (35 m)
Min Max Avg
Power: 204 343 277 watts
Heart rate: 0 166 15 bpm
Cadence: 44 54 50 rpm
Speed: 8.4 10.6 9.9 kph
Pace 5:40 7:09 6:05 min/km
Altitude: 914 948 931 m
Crank Torque: 39.7 69.7 52.6 N-m
Temperature: 17 18 17.1 Celsius

I normally train and race on an 11:23 cassette, but did put on an 12:25 for today. Given the above numbers it seems that this climb might have benefited from a 12:27 setup.


Here is course route. I'm using a new map site which is a little simpler to use and has a better elevation view (click through to the "View this route in MapMyRide" and then add select "Display elevation" in the view options.)