So today I decided to give Page Mill Road another run. I took a slightly different route (went up Altamont Rd instead of Moody Rd) but it ended up being about the same.
I did it in the same time as last week, 1:45 going up and 0:30 coming down, though I had fewer near-death experiences on this descent.
I figured rather than paste in the same map as the previous blog post I'd do some interesting calculations instead.
Assuming a 210lb combined weight for me and my bicycle and 2200 vertical feet of climbing and ignoring wind resistance (I really wish I could ignore wind resistance), I would have to have output a minimum of 150 kilocalories to reach the top, and I would have output this energy at an average of 100 watts; if I could get that up to 250 watts I could get to the top in just over 40 minutes and go ride the Tour de France. More realistically, if I dropped about 25lb of weight I could cut the time down to 1:30 with the same power output.
On the way back down, all that energy was returned to me at an average of 350 watts, or roughly ½ horsepower.
And now you know.
2 comments:
Now I know why you are getting a math degree. You keep doing math problems for fun!
Does this mean your net weight loss was zero??
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