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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 |
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Mount Donna Buang - Ride Report
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 |
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Mount Donna Buang ride on Wednesday
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 -- essendon93 |
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Mount Donna Buang ride on Wednesday
"essendon93" wrote in message ... 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 -- 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. |
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