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Originally Posted by FrogMan
the scales they use for the Y and the X axis are just out of whack. I mean, on the elevation side, it's 197 pixels for 100 feet of elevation while on the distance side, it's 92 pixels for a mile, or 92 pixels for 5280 feet.
When you look at the peak in either of your elevation graphs, you'd have to be climbing with your hands on the ground to be able to go up...
Still 4-5% elevation is nothing to sneeze at, nor is 8-9% over maybe 1000 feet. Probably better not to kill yourself trying to keep your pace intact, put some time in the bank on the downhill and keep the HR as even as possible on the uphills...
Good luck with it!
FM
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When I was stationed overseas in Germany, I ran a morning 3 mile run that included a steep climb for about 1,000 feet. I couldn't tell you the grade, but when I first encountered it, I would just put my head down and look at my feet...but I couldn't make it to the top. Walking uphill proved more painful...so it became my goal to conquer that hill (which came at about the 2 mile marker along the route). Over the course of a couple of weeks I would make it to the top and be forced to stop and walk for a moment....and then a couple more weeks it was conquered and I didn't have to stop at all. So it took a month to beat it. And once beaten, I felt like a million dollars reaching the top and continuing on with the random onlooker being my imaginary fan-base.
