My friend Mike Scalisi (leader of the "Scalisi Death Ride"😉 keeps
talking about Baldwin Street, so I poked around and found listing of a
few other streets:
http://tinyurl.com/2rk5w8
It made me wonder about San Francisco streets. In my running days I
ran the California Mile (in 6:05, winning time was 5:04) which is a
pretty wicked climb. But how does one measure the grade (technically I
know, a 32% grade means that it rises 32ft over a 100ft run). But for
streets that are longer and are not the same grade during the entire
run, how should one measure the grade, or determine which street is
steepest?
It seems that measure should be the mean, an average of the entire
street, and that there should be a minimum distance. I imagine there
are several very steep, but short, streets.
Anyway, there are a number of streets in San Francisco that must rank
in the top ten -- I don't know exactly which street is the steepest,
but this is a Wikipedia entry begging to be authored.
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