Mount Donna Buang ride on Wednesday

Wednesday is definitely a goer for me to finally get around to climbing
Mount Donna Buang. So far I have one of my mates coming along and hopefully
there will be another one getting back to me with a yes tonight. We are
planning on leaving my place at 0600h in the car and will drive to the
Launching Place Hotel. From there, we will ride to Warburton so that we get
a bit of a warm up prior to the climb and then we will go up and down Donna
Buang. The weather forecast tonight said that it is supposed to be fine and
25 deg on Wednesday but from speaking to guys who have climbed it before I
am planning on taking a wind vest and a set of arm warmers (and maybe even a
spray jacket) for the descent in case it gets cold near the top.

We plan on sticking together and just riding a steady tempo to the top -
maybe I will get out again someday and see how fast I can do it solo.

If anyone is interested in coming along for the ride then let me know
through this forum so that we can meet up at Launching Place.

Gags

Went out this morning and it was an almost perfect day for being on a bike -
fine and not too hot. I ended up doing the climb with a guy from my old
work who is 55 y.o. and goes alright on a bike for an old fella!!!

We started from Launching Place and had an easy ride of 12km or so to the
start of the climb. We did the climb at a fairly easy pace and I stayed
with my mate the whole way up. He was running a 50/36 on the front and a
13-29 on the rear and for the last half or so of the climb he was back in
the lowest gear or two. I run 53/39 and 12-25 and I was initially sitting
in 39/23 for the first 20 min or so but then when we slowed down to 13km/h
and as low as 10km/h I had to go to the 39/25 to avoid grinding too much. I
would have preferred to go a bit quicker and resultantly at a higher cadence
but in the end I was happy to stick with my mate who put in a pretty good
effort - his HRM was showing between 90 and 95% for most of the climb!!!

We finally got to the top in 1h16m30s and as soon as we stopped we were
covered in flies!!! As we had gone all the way to the top I convinced my
mate to join me in taking off our bike shoes and climbing the observation
tower for a look. It was well worth it as the view was fantastic and to top
it off I found $2.20 up there!!!

The trip back down was good fun and I was sitting between 60 and 70kph for
most of it without having to pedal too often. We did stop to fill up our
water bottles from the natural spring outlet (I was wondering why my mate
only had one water bottle at the start but it was due to knowing that he
could refill up near the top!!) and the entire trip down took just over 15
minutes of riding.

It was the longest continuous climb and descent that I have ever done and I
am looking forward to going back and having another crack at it solo. I put
my time into cycle2max and it gave me an estimated power output of 268W - I
had a look at one of Ess's times (59m3s) and his estimated power was
255W......If only I could lose about 25kg and keep the same power output!!!

Gags

Gags Wrote:
Went out this morning and it was an almost perfect day for being on a
bike -
fine and not too hot. I ended up doing the climb with a guy from my
old
work who is 55 y.o. and goes alright on a bike for an old fella!!!

We started from Launching Place and had an easy ride of 12km or so to
the
start of the climb. We did the climb at a fairly easy pace and I
stayed
with my mate the whole way up. He was running a 50/36 on the front
and a
13-29 on the rear and for the last half or so of the climb he was back
in
the lowest gear or two. I run 53/39 and 12-25 and I was initially
sitting
in 39/23 for the first 20 min or so but then when we slowed down to
13km/h
and as low as 10km/h I had to go to the 39/25 to avoid grinding too
much. I
would have preferred to go a bit quicker and resultantly at a higher
cadence
but in the end I was happy to stick with my mate who put in a pretty
good
effort - his HRM was showing between 90 and 95% for most of the
climb!!!

We finally got to the top in 1h16m30s and as soon as we stopped we
were
covered in flies!!! As we had gone all the way to the top I convinced
my
mate to join me in taking off our bike shoes and climbing the
observation
tower for a look. It was well worth it as the view was fantastic and
to top
it off I found $2.20 up there!!!

The trip back down was good fun and I was sitting between 60 and 70kph
for
most of it without having to pedal too often. We did stop to fill up
our
water bottles from the natural spring outlet (I was wondering why my
mate
only had one water bottle at the start but it was due to knowing that
he
could refill up near the top!!) and the entire trip down took just
over 15
minutes of riding.

It was the longest continuous climb and descent that I have ever done
and I
am looking forward to going back and having another crack at it solo.
I put
my time into cycle2max and it gave me an estimated power output of
268W - I
had a look at one of Ess's times (59m3s) and his estimated power was
255W......If only I could lose about 25kg and keep the same power
output!!!

GagsAbout time you jumped onto c2M.
I'd like to see you do Hodgson St or Clintons rd, I want to see the
1000W barrier broken


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essendon93

"essendon93" wrote in
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GagsAbout time you jumped onto c2M.
I'd like to see you do Hodgson St or Clintons rd, I want to see the
1000W barrier broken


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essendon93


We have a power tap competition of sorts running here in Newcastle, the
owner of the tap holds the maximum output at 1934 W, and the runner up is at
1858 W, we have some others around the 1300 to 1500 W mark.

I am yet to have a go at it but I suspect I would be around the 1500 W mark
due to my 100 Kg weight and my performace against the ones in the 1300 to
1500 W output range.

The owner has banned track sprinters from using it as he does not want to be
beaten, we have a rider here that was over the 2000 W mark when he was
racing, but he has no real interest at competition anymore so will probably
not have a go.