Just wondering if anyone is considering doing Fitz's Challenge in Canberra this year. Any tips for newbies-what are your best times? I understand Fitz's Hill (2.6 km at 10.4%) is a bit of a killer-what about the descent going home?
The course has changed this year because the Cotter Bridge is still out after the bushfires. More details at http://www.pedalpower.org.au/events/fitz/fitz2003/fitz.html. AFAIK Fitz's Hill is still in it. According to my altimeter speedo Fitz's Hill is actually 2.4km at an average gradient of 12.5% with a max gradient of 16%. But that isn't the steepest part of the course. You can see a graph of altitude and percent gradient that I took off the speedo after last years event at http://www.tip.net.au/~njpayne/bikestuff/fitz/.
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Just wondering if anyone is considering doing Fitz's Challenge in Canberra this year. Any tips for newbies-what are your best times? I understand Fitz's Hill (2.6 km at 10.4%) is a bit of a killer-what about the descent going home?
Originally posted by Nick Payne The course has changed this year because the Cotter Bridge is still out after the bushfires. More details at htt- p://www.pedalpower.org.au/events/fitz/fitz2003/fitz.htmlhttp://www.peda- lpower.org.au/events/fitz/fitz2003/fitz.html. AFAIK Fitz's Hill is still in it. According to my altimeter speedo Fitz's Hill is actually 2.4km at an average gradient of 12.5% with a max gradient of 16%. But that isn't the steepest part of the course. You can see a graph of altitude and percent gradient that I took off the speedo after last years event at http://www.tip- .net.au/~njpayne/bikestuff/fitz/http://www.tip.net.au/~njpayne/bike- stuff/fitz/.
Hey that looks like a cool bike computer to generate that sort of info..what are you using?