He beat the record by about the length of this video. Imagine your racing someone, and when you finish someones already done and has already watched this whole video. Insane
Oh course Ronan is nice, he’s Irish! ☘️ But you Phil are a true gent, instead of cursing your adversaries you talk to them with genuine curiosity and respect. Can’t wait to see your next Everesting attempt and hope you claim the record again. 🏔
Wow - What a great interview. Both gents with such class. Phil you really made a great contribution as well, meaning, that while the articles I've read about Ronan's Everesting were good, it really comes through what a down to earth and cool dude he is in your discussion. Chapeau.
When I cycled MizMal with Wild Atlantic Cycling, we rode over Mamore Gap. That is a serious climb! The view from the ocean side is pretty damn awesome! The folks in Ireland were all very nice to this old American!
Very intelligent and very knowledgeable, our Ronan. Having the confidence to trust what he was doing and not be intimidated by a name is already an achievement. But he's also figured out the optimal profile, whilst many people already thought they knew it, but didn't. Again, the self confidence and brains are remarkable. Of course, he's still gone up his (steep) segment at an average of 1450-1500 VAM (rough calculation) for the whole day. Yes, the segment is steep, but anyone who ever tried a strava up a similarly steep, short brute, knows exactly how lung busting that can be. Doing it 75-odd times at that speed?! It'll be a while before this record gets broken, I'm guessing. Well done Ronan.
Agreed. Ask a question, then listen! Too many “pro” interviewers are too full of themselves to shut up and let the guy talk. You nailed it and what a result!
Good for you Phil for featuring Ronan on your channel. Lanterne Rouge interviewed him a few days ago and I thought "what a classy move." That you've done the same is sooooo super classy, bravo 👍
Click Bait This Irish Ex-Pro, who pretty much had to do it all on his own, with probably very little actual scientific analysis, and not world class power data (365 FTP, 72kg according to his Strava), showed, that there is a lot more potential. This climb is probably very good, but it certainly isn’t perfect. For Ineos 159, they found one of the flattest pieces of roads, got the surface fixed, had perfect pacing, pacemakers, and months months (with nutritionists, medical staff, physiotherapists etc) of preparation. There is so so much potential here (a better climb, perfect gearing, better pacing, better nutrition, wind shelter, perfect road, maybe at altitude or if that’s the wrong way to go maybe below sea level (like Israel, idk)) AND of course, a rider like Bernal or Carapaz just has more power, for longer, at a much lower weight. I am sure sub 6 can be done. If everything is perfect. Huge respect to Ronan, but even he says „Bernal would probably go 6:04“.
@Click Bait Including rolling resistance, air resistence and drive train losses you need about 6,5 w/kg for 1770 VAM. 5 w/kg is approx what this dude rode during his climbs unless he had bigger tail wind. With steep gradient you can get about an 7:1 ratio of ascending to descending so this leaves 5:15h for uphill or 1685 VAM. This requires about 6,1-6,2 w/kg with a super light bike maybe 6,0. This is in GC riders threshold range. Given they get rest every few minutes it is pretty much at the border of possible impossible. So perfect for ineoa :)
Click Bait nah. Two hour marathon is something the greatest runners have chased for decades. Hundreds and thousands of people have dedicated their lives to perfecting the marathon and have never even come close. Everesting was “invented” less than 10 years ago and really became a big thing this year. The current WR is held by a non pro (which hasn’t happened in Marathon in decades). We’ll see how difficult it really is when there is a “Nike Breaking2/ Ineos 159”-like attempt.
Competition is boring if it isn't friendly and these two gents embody so much of what I can't help but feel is missing from much of professional sport. Both frank about their achievements and abilities, both slightly self deprecating without falling into false modesty. A pleasure to follow this developing contest. Thank you P Gaimon.
What a great video, Phil! I say that about every one, but it's true. I'm always entertained. Ronan was a great guest. Very well spoken, and seems like a total class act. Cheers from Toronto
Really enjoyed this, Ronan comes across as such a great guy, and the dynamic between you two was so good! Would love the both of you to do something together one day in the future. Great story about how he met his wife too :D
Hagi well ye guys must be born climbers so.... I’m a giant quads half aresd TT/sprinter😃 oh but have ye done the short but torturous Windmill hill in Youghal or Tickincor and powers the pot near Clonmel????
Hey Phil! Great content and good to see two guys genuinely interesting guys having a chat. You need to get over to Ireland and go for a ‘proper’ drink with the new champion. The Irish know how to party!!!
Commenting just in case he didn't say it, but Phil needs to look for an exposed road to do his attempt too because Ronan had the pleasure of fantastic tailwind up the climb that day here in Ireland. Mamore Gap is pretty exposed so he definitely got the extra advantage along with everything else he did to the bike, Kudos with an absolutely amazing effort 💪
Having ridden mamore gap a few times doing the innishowen 100 event the tailwind def would make a difference and it is very exposed. I'd love to know what the wind direction and speed were on the other most recent top 5 times
@@worstretirementever He was climbing at around 11 km/h with a 21 km/h tailwind so basically whatever drag he would have had in still wind could be estimated to be thrust. Looking at a bike calculator website for the drag at 11 km/h and that looks like around 18 watts, plus you're not having the drag from going up the hill so it's basically doubled to over 30 watts. It's like an extra 10% of power on the around 300 watts he was doing.
"The only talent I have is ignorance" That, right there, is a man that had my same theory behind hill climbing. If you go faster mashing a big gear, screw the Lance Armstrong cadence!
I am fan of Jan Ullrich style grinding! If the gradient is steep enough you'll need to grind even on the granny gear anyway. In the name of "shut up legs" Jens Voigt saying. You have to grind it out.
48/17 is like king on the climbs. In my century experence. I almost tied together mount tamalpais San Bruno mountain and mount Diablo last summer but I ran out of miles before the reaching the base of diablo
My old ass rode gravel, grass & a bit of mud for 50km with a little under 500ft of elevation gain yesterday - I can barely move. I can't imagine everesting.
My mind is just blown looking at his average power over the whole ride. I could ride at that power level for about 90 minutes, but then I'm cooked for the day. Holding that for five and a half more hours is just unbelievable!
Nice guy, nice accomplishment. I’m not sure he fully gets your sarcasm and comments.😂😂 Not sure I’ll be Eversting anytime soon, but did summit the highest paved road in N America on my Surly ICT recently!
If you beat it, you might be the first to go under 7 hrs, which would be noteworthy in itself. But like you, I'm waiting for cooler weather in SoCal before trying again (age group record). By the time it cools off here, some bored WT pro that didn't make the Giro/Tour team will have probably gone sub7. Maybe travel to Norcal to get cooler temps and stay at low altitude?
Phil, just thinking about the search for the perfect everesting climb. Maybe hard to find but maybe a location with two opposing 20% grades with a very short bottom section between them. The hills would only be half as high and no turn around at the bottom.
Awesome video! So I know that you guys are looking for straight, steep segments and I understand the reasoning for those. I do wonder though, with the resulting segments being quite short, whether there's time losses on the descent that involve getting up to speed at the start of the descent and scrubbing speed at the end (and then compounding those with multiple reps), that overcome the losses you would incur from say, having to slow down for a curve or two on a longer descent that involves a few curves. I guess the question is, have you considered a longer steep segment that might have some curves and whether or not decreasing the number of reps would gain you some time? Any math nerds besides Phil that have crunched numbers on this?
Stone makes a nice campagnolo 1-by chainring. I almost bought an older campagnolo crankset specifically so I could have access to the 135bcd chainrings.
It´s becoming a serious thing, next year Ineos will build the perfect climb with fresh pavement, Pinarello will build a specific bike and Bernal will try the 6h Mark Nice Interview, thanks for that. Congratulations Ronan
Yeah. A man made hill at whatever gradient they calculate as optimal and a stupid light pinarello that is just barely strong enough to carry his 130lbs. I'm already dreading it.
Great interview. Looking at his strava feed for the record, he doesn't actually hold the KOM for the segment, somebody else holds it from nearly 4 years ago, beating Ronan's best by 1 second
He beat the record by about the length of this video. Imagine your racing someone, and when you finish someones already done and has already watched this whole video. Insane
He beat my Eversting record by 48 hours. You could watch this video 144 times in the span.
He beat my record by 41 years
I Everested over a month. I was so proud. Now I feel like maybe I should try doing it in a week. Seven hours, seven days...that's simar, right?
Thanks awesome man, great comment
Oh course Ronan is nice, he’s Irish! ☘️ But you Phil are a true gent, instead of cursing your adversaries you talk to them with genuine curiosity and respect. Can’t wait to see your next Everesting attempt and hope you claim the record again. 🏔
He's lulling him into a false sense of security 😜
Totally agree. Well said. ☘️
What an odd 'event' everesting is, and for some reason it brough together two of the nicest dudes who ride bikes on the planet. Good stuff
Wow - What a great interview. Both gents with such class. Phil you really made a great contribution as well, meaning, that while the articles I've read about Ronan's Everesting were good, it really comes through what a down to earth and cool dude he is in your discussion. Chapeau.
When I cycled MizMal with Wild Atlantic Cycling, we rode over Mamore Gap. That is a serious climb! The view from the ocean side is pretty damn awesome! The folks in Ireland were all very nice to this old American!
The Lanterne Rouge had a great first interview with Ronan and it was fun to see another version of this!
Great conversation and also, what a nice guy. 👍
Very intelligent and very knowledgeable, our Ronan. Having the confidence to trust what he was doing and not be intimidated by a name is already an achievement. But he's also figured out the optimal profile, whilst many people already thought they knew it, but didn't. Again, the self confidence and brains are remarkable. Of course, he's still gone up his (steep) segment at an average of 1450-1500 VAM (rough calculation) for the whole day. Yes, the segment is steep, but anyone who ever tried a strava up a similarly steep, short brute, knows exactly how lung busting that can be. Doing it 75-odd times at that speed?! It'll be a while before this record gets broken, I'm guessing. Well done Ronan.
I am HERE for the 24/7 Everesting coverage! Ronan seems like a nice dude.
You're a great interviewer and a gracious host. Nice job.
Agreed. Ask a question, then listen! Too many “pro” interviewers are too full of themselves to shut up and let the guy talk. You nailed it and what a result!
Ronan is a class act! So interesting to hear his training and mindset for the attempt. Very cool of you to interview him. Two classy dudes!
Great interview, well done both of you for being so open and generous with us. This is TH-cam Gold!
Good for you Phil for featuring Ronan on your channel. Lanterne Rouge interviewed him a few days ago and I thought "what a classy move." That you've done the same is sooooo super classy, bravo 👍
Donated to CRS, cool that you did an interview with him
"the only talent I have is ignorance" 😅
Don't follow many you tubers, but really glad I've jumped onto your channel Phil. Humble, practical, pragmatic and fun!!
What a cool dude! I particularly like that he did all of his own alterations on his bike.
A fantastic interview. Well done Phil and many congratulations Ronan.
Man, such a class act. Both you and Ronan. Great interview all around. 👍
I am completely expecting a „Ineos 5:59 in a few years time“.
Click Bait This Irish Ex-Pro, who pretty much had to do it all on his own, with probably very little actual scientific analysis, and not world class power data (365 FTP, 72kg according to his Strava), showed, that there is a lot more potential. This climb is probably very good, but it certainly isn’t perfect. For Ineos 159, they found one of the flattest pieces of roads, got the surface fixed, had perfect pacing, pacemakers, and months months (with nutritionists, medical staff, physiotherapists etc) of preparation. There is so so much potential here (a better climb, perfect gearing, better pacing, better nutrition, wind shelter, perfect road, maybe at altitude or if that’s the wrong way to go maybe below sea level (like Israel, idk)) AND of course, a rider like Bernal or Carapaz just has more power, for longer, at a much lower weight. I am sure sub 6 can be done. If everything is perfect.
Huge respect to Ronan, but even he says „Bernal would probably go 6:04“.
@Click Bait Including rolling resistance, air resistence and drive train losses you need about 6,5 w/kg for 1770 VAM. 5 w/kg is approx what this dude rode during his climbs unless he had bigger tail wind. With steep gradient you can get about an 7:1 ratio of ascending to descending so this leaves 5:15h for uphill or 1685 VAM. This requires about 6,1-6,2 w/kg with a super light bike maybe 6,0. This is in GC riders threshold range. Given they get rest every few minutes it is pretty much at the border of possible impossible. So perfect for ineoa :)
Click Bait nah. Two hour marathon is something the greatest runners have chased for decades. Hundreds and thousands of people have dedicated their lives to perfecting the marathon and have never even come close. Everesting was “invented” less than 10 years ago and really became a big thing this year. The current WR is held by a non pro (which hasn’t happened in Marathon in decades). We’ll see how difficult it really is when there is a “Nike Breaking2/ Ineos 159”-like attempt.
Love the Calvin & Hobbes strips you have framed in the background!
What a fun chat! Ronan seems like a good bloke, for sure. As are you, Phil.
The sort of interview I would pay for to watch live in an auditorium. Top class
The length of the video is how much he beat a Tour de France rider by....mind blown.
*multiple tour de france winner, thats a big difference.
Great stuff, two absolute class acts who obviously love cycling. Cycling needs more of this ♥️
Competition is boring if it isn't friendly and these two gents embody so much of what I can't help but feel is missing from much of professional sport. Both frank about their achievements and abilities, both slightly self deprecating without falling into false modesty. A pleasure to follow this developing contest. Thank you P Gaimon.
Good interview, very like able fellow that McLaughlin, thanks.
Ronan is a nice lad! Humble and humorous. Phil, you should have him as a repeat guest (talking about training).
Really informative and fun interview! Thank you Phil!
What a great video, Phil! I say that about every one, but it's true. I'm always entertained. Ronan was a great guest. Very well spoken, and seems like a total class act. Cheers from Toronto
Ronan 's such a sweetheart! What a beast of a ride. Great interview!
Really enjoyed this, Ronan comes across as such a great guy, and the dynamic between you two was so good! Would love the both of you to do something together one day in the future. Great story about how he met his wife too :D
@Phil if you come to Ireland you have to try KOM the Healy Pass, Priest's leap, Conor Pass, Shanrahan and some other top class climbs in Ireland 🇮🇪
HumaneNewt love all them climbs HATE your last one the most!!! Good Everesting climb I think!!!!
@@jascollinscork Shanrahan would be my favourite of that group. Barley Lake, now that's a trip into hell!!
Hagi well ye guys must be born climbers so.... I’m a giant quads half aresd TT/sprinter😃 oh but have ye done the short but torturous Windmill hill in Youghal or Tickincor and powers the pot near Clonmel????
@@jascollinscork never did Windmill hill, but I live at the top of something similar 🤣. Tickincor and powers the pot are grand, nothing too painful
@@pathurley86 oooh well you must be a pure climber so.....💪🏼👌🏻 70kg??
Heck yeah. What a seemingly good guy - and I still can’t believe how much he smashed it by. He might hang on to it for a little while with that time.
Have another crack at it Phil. Thanks for the cool videos. Like how you show respect to dudes that beat records
Great,great interview Phil thanks!
Great interview. Love the Everest updates and reactions
Great interview, hell of a nice guy 👍
Fantastic interview Phil, loved it, I won't ask when you are going to Ireland, don't worry.....
OMG 😮 your BEST video EVER Phil.......... 😍💪🏻🇮🇪😍😂
Hey Phil! Great content and good to see two guys genuinely interesting guys having a chat. You need to get over to Ireland and go for a ‘proper’ drink with the new champion. The Irish know how to party!!!
What a star! Ronan put in an amazing effort and could not be more modest. Other World record-holders could learn something from him.
Commenting just in case he didn't say it, but Phil needs to look for an exposed road to do his attempt too because Ronan had the pleasure of fantastic tailwind up the climb that day here in Ireland. Mamore Gap is pretty exposed so he definitely got the extra advantage along with everything else he did to the bike, Kudos with an absolutely amazing effort 💪
Hard to think a tailwind matters much at 14% to be honest. That’s like going up a ladder
Having ridden mamore gap a few times doing the innishowen 100 event the tailwind def would make a difference and it is very exposed. I'd love to know what the wind direction and speed were on the other most recent top 5 times
@@worstretirementever He was climbing at around 11 km/h with a 21 km/h tailwind so basically whatever drag he would have had in still wind could be estimated to be thrust. Looking at a bike calculator website for the drag at 11 km/h and that looks like around 18 watts, plus you're not having the drag from going up the hill so it's basically doubled to over 30 watts. It's like an extra 10% of power on the around 300 watts he was doing.
Great interview Phil and Ronan!
Love the new channel..it suits you well, but now I'm interested in a Contador interview if possible. 🍻
Two peas in a pod: everesting, hill climbs, nice guys, charities, former racers. Nice!
Well, who's McLaughlin now?
Sorry, someone had to do it, I'll leave now
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Really great video. Thoroughly enjoyed the discussion. Thanks.
Phil, you must be getting a lot more popular. TH-cam is inserting many more commercials than before. I hope you’re getting a good cut.
Fun interview! Thanks for sharing
Roman's a humble champ and a very cool guy!
Great interview, really enjoyed this
Supertucking going 85kph on the hoods with no drops is the craziest thing!
Lovely interview with two lovely guys!
I love this video. A great human. A fun video and awesome conversation.
Thanks for a great interview!
fantastic interview Phil, thanks for sharing
Thank you very much Ronan and Phil!
BTW, 'How do you say it?' is the perfect way to get someone's name right.
"The only talent I have is ignorance"
That, right there, is a man that had my same theory behind hill climbing. If you go faster mashing a big gear, screw the Lance Armstrong cadence!
I am fan of Jan Ullrich style grinding! If the gradient is steep enough you'll need to grind even on the granny gear anyway. In the name of "shut up legs" Jens Voigt saying. You have to grind it out.
Csaba Toth was
Csaba Toth is
48/17 is like king on the climbs. In my century experence. I almost tied together mount tamalpais San Bruno mountain and mount Diablo last summer but I ran out of miles before the reaching the base of diablo
Interesting topics 👍🏼 pacing and the feeling during the effort would be as well. We heard about your suffering, and I would love some comparisons
Excellent interview Phil i enjoyed that
"The only talent I have is ignorance..." Excellent, great effort, and good video.
Where is Contadors reaction, why are you bothering me? Whatever, FINE! :DDD
Get yourself over here to Ireland and check out some climbs.You’ll love it! ☘️☘️🇮🇪
That was fun. Hope you and Ronan can get together for a follow up video some day.
I would like to see an.Emma Pooley interview on everesting
Great interview, thanks guys
A great interview: really interesting and entertaining. Thanks.
Awesome interview, thanks!
Have you seen the people who are taking on Everesting on foot! Mental!
Or like Ross Edgley, Everested. Up. A. Rope.
There are guys who do it up steep snow and ice slopes, too. At high altitude. Mental.
Super cool interview 👍
What a lovely interview.
What a great story, hopefully it helps him reach his charity target.
My old ass rode gravel, grass & a bit of mud for 50km with a little under 500ft of elevation gain yesterday - I can barely move. I can't imagine everesting.
-Everesting record
-KOM
-Tour de France
😂😂😂😂
My mind is just blown looking at his average power over the whole ride. I could ride at that power level for about 90 minutes, but then I'm cooked for the day. Holding that for five and a half more hours is just unbelievable!
Because we love you way more than contador
Excellent video. Thanks Phil
Nice guy, nice accomplishment. I’m not sure he fully gets your sarcasm and comments.😂😂 Not sure I’ll be Eversting anytime soon, but did summit the highest paved road in N America on my Surly ICT recently!
I’m pretty sure they do sarcasm in Ireland
Phil Gaimon oh yes, he definitely gets it. 😀
We invented sarcasm and well done on your bikel on the highest paved road in N America.
Great chat.
Great interview. I feel like you two would be good friends if you hung out.
Agreed!
Anyone can be friend with us Micks
If you beat it, you might be the first to go under 7 hrs, which would be noteworthy in itself. But like you, I'm waiting for cooler weather in SoCal before trying again (age group record). By the time it cools off here, some bored WT pro that didn't make the Giro/Tour team will have probably gone sub7. Maybe travel to Norcal to get cooler temps and stay at low altitude?
Top class rider Ronan and great i terview from both
"the only talent i have is ignorance" talk about irish stereotypes!! legend.
Glad Ronan got it, he was a much better interview than El Pistolero would've been!
Phil, just thinking about the search for the perfect everesting climb. Maybe hard to find but maybe a location with two opposing 20% grades with a very short bottom section between them. The hills would only be half as high and no turn around at the bottom.
Actually maybe ride a 20 foot half pipe for 7 hours. I would be funny to see a BMXer take the title.
Phil Where's Your Reaction Video?
Awesome video!
So I know that you guys are looking for straight, steep segments and I understand the reasoning for those. I do wonder though, with the resulting segments being quite short, whether there's time losses on the descent that involve getting up to speed at the start of the descent and scrubbing speed at the end (and then compounding those with multiple reps), that overcome the losses you would incur from say, having to slow down for a curve or two on a longer descent that involves a few curves.
I guess the question is, have you considered a longer steep segment that might have some curves and whether or not decreasing the number of reps would gain you some time?
Any math nerds besides Phil that have crunched numbers on this?
What a legend!
Awesome interview!
Super cool!!! 2 class acts..... well done
Hey I like it! By the transitive property of cycling results I'm the 1994 Canadian flying 200m silver medalist :-)
This guy’s such a champ
This guy is a straight up winner at life.
Stone makes a nice campagnolo 1-by chainring. I almost bought an older campagnolo crankset specifically so I could have access to the 135bcd chainrings.
Great job Ronan!
What a couple awesome people 👌
It´s becoming a serious thing, next year Ineos will build the perfect climb with fresh pavement, Pinarello will build a specific bike and Bernal will try the 6h Mark
Nice Interview, thanks for that.
Congratulations Ronan
Yeah. A man made hill at whatever gradient they calculate as optimal and a stupid light pinarello that is just barely strong enough to carry his 130lbs. I'm already dreading it.
Gabriel Martins 😂😂 but just like the Nike runners marathon record...... hopefully won’t count....🤔😂
Great interview with a “normal, nice guy”.
Great interview. Looking at his strava feed for the record, he doesn't actually hold the KOM for the segment, somebody else holds it from nearly 4 years ago, beating Ronan's best by 1 second