tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459221121930854242.post3941047656627525940..comments2023-09-12T05:58:57.931-07:00Comments on Fitter, Happier, More Productive: Brookline MAKelrockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18089676383999108438noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459221121930854242.post-72559537666801234602011-05-17T07:20:45.605-07:002011-05-17T07:20:45.605-07:00Keith,
In case you haven't found it yet, ther...Keith,<br /><br />In case you haven't found it yet, there is great riding east/southeast from Brookline. Riding to and around Dover is fantastic, and my staple ride from downtown Boston. <br /><br />This map will give you a sense for the area:<br />http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=763511<br /><br />There is a decent 7.7 mile TT loop in Dover (see http://markdionne.com/tt.html)<br /><br />Finally, the Charles River Wheelmen, a Boston club, has marked a lot of routes out towards Dover with white spray paint inverted "T"s.<br />http://www.crw.org/<br /><br />Kevin GallagherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8459221121930854242.post-91442317501122283282011-05-10T19:58:49.091-07:002011-05-10T19:58:49.091-07:00grr...google lost my comment. So here it goes agai...grr...google lost my comment. So here it goes again, probably in a slightly condensed form, which I'm sure no one will complain about. under 5 minutes on blue hill is indeed good. Depending on how close to 5 you're talking, it could be great. Sub 4:30 would be excellent. If you can go back and beat 3:45 with the good bike, then I'll drive you up to NH for Newton's revenge, and we can split the prize money.<br /><br />So, your post is good timing, because I actually just added a rudimentary time guessing function to brentacol today. It guesses your time on one hill based on a time on another. It really works best for comparing two hills that are fairly similar, but if you play around with the data, you can figure some interesting things out about hills that are quite different. (In this case Blue Hill and Ascutney)<br /><br />- If I put my best time of 5:31 in for Blue Hill, it predicts 30:28 on Ascutney. That's about 4 minutes faster than my actual time of 34:20, but that's to be expected, because you can obviously go harder over a shorter distance.<br /><br />- If I reverse the equation and put in my Ascutney time, brentacol predicts my blue hill time should be 6:12. That still seems like a not so horrible time (for me). Which is interesting to me because it probably correlates to the pace I would go up Blue Hill if I had to be able to sustain it for another 2.8 miles, give or take.<br /><br />- But now we can try to figure this out another way. Let's say you want to WIN Ascutney. in 2009, that would mean a time of 26:02. The predicted time up Blue Hill is only 4:46. Even if finishing "under 5" today meant 4:59, I think you should be able to do 4:46 with the good bike and without a bag. But that's a *sustainable* time, not a best time. If your best time were to come down to the 4:15 range, I think you'd have a good shot at winning it, and certainly top-10 should be feasible in any case.Brenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08279090113796634219noreply@blogger.com