I Tried Riding Up My Local Climb 35 Times In One Day!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Local Legend: the athlete who completes a given segment the most over a rolling 90-day period. But what would it take to become a Strava Local Legend in just one day? Always up for a challenge, Conor decided to find out by taking on his local Bathwick Hill climb 35 times in a single ride. That’s over 5,000m of elevation gain! Will he claim the coveted laurel crown?
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You should do brassknocker Hill, on the other side of the University next :)
I've got a few near me, the first is Frankies leg killer, the second is Labores Explosive. The first one I do almost ever ride I go on because I have to and the last on is 12.5km long with an elevation gain of over 600 meters
There's this little climb known as "interval ect2019" that I like to try and beat my times up over and over again.
Roeburndale road climb just nearly 1000 ft gain with a wicked switchback to catch you out on the way back down
My local little climb in the new forest is bolderwood, Dan may remember that climb
Now that's what I call the ups and downs of cycling in one video. Great effort.
Literally 😂
Did something similar in lockdown. Created an Alpe d’Huez inspired challenge to ride a segment 21 times in a single ride for our cycling club, and decided the 5km loop of Arthur’s seat in Edinburgh was the segment for me. Got some strange looks and questions from tourists when they started getting a feeling of deja-vu
One of my mates did 100 laps for charity…. Ive peaked at riding 20 i think
Hahahaha sounds like a great challenge! How did you get on?
@@gcn It was great. We deliberately didn’t have any rules about which segment you could use so it varied from people doing laps along their street to others finding their nearest switchback and riding it 21 times. Arthur’s Seat was a good one. I had actually only intended to do a few laps that ride but decided to keep going!
I had a local road called Dorking so my little project during a week of lock down was to be King Dork :-). The challenge was we were only allowed out once a day for an hour within a 5km radius of home.
The idea of the current local legend seeing all this and already heading out to add to the total is hilarious. Couldn't stop laughing at that.
Us Strava nuts are a weird bunch 😂
Me too, what a silly bunch we are looking for the slightest pat on the back 🤣 thought Conor was being paranoid 😂😂
Loved this 😂 I could feel the slight desperation & paranoia creeping in but good on Connor for pressing on and getting it done. The man’s got heart!
He's a trooper!
Well done Sisyphus! Er, Conor! Congrats on making a local legend/personal best. Most of all, thanks for showing that you can also take care of daddy business as well! (Been there, done that, they're 35 and 33 now, but plenty of 'midnight oil' burnt in the day!) Kudos to the gnc film/edit crew for making the 'mundane' so visually engaging!! Love this personal best content because it shows what epic could look like close to home!
Adventure is only just around the corner 🙌
One of the great aspects of GCN is the different ways the presenters suffer. Firstly, we ALL suffer but it is fascinating how each one of you present your own personal struggles. Conor is a “heart on sleeve” sufferer who always admits his physical and emotional state with beautiful human honesty. I’m more in the if I admit that I’m struggling I’ll fail camp. Great content but a shout out to former GCN legend Emma Pooley who holds the QOM needs making!
I accidentally found a Local Legend Strava segment in a local park that came up on my summary. Was a 1km counter-clockwise ride around a hill. I did it 5 times to get the badge. Week later someone did it 6 times so I went out and did it 35 times. Needless to say, never got anyone to challenge it so far. LOL. Great video Conor.
35 times 🤯 That's commitment.
Local legend status is about the only topping of a Strava leaderboard I’m ever likely to attain! At 57, I’m a little past my prime athletic performance days! I do hold two KoMs though! Lol! Easy when you live in a sparsely populated area! Lol! Btw, one of them is mostly downhill the other mostly flat 😂
Do you think you'll ever give the local legend a go?!
You can always ride a random route that nobody else would have done and then create a segment from that route and you should be KOM 👍
It doesn't always work though, you might find out at least one person has travelled that same random route 😂
@@gcn I do have a few Local Legends, but I don't need to ride any routes too many times where I live to get one thankfully!
Top effort & determination that well done Connor, I also did a stupid ride this week I decided to do every hill in my local city of Lancaster !! Parts of it are fairly hilly with some 20% it took me 2.5 hours 21 hills 26 miles & 2500 ft elevation, I was knackered but I wouldn’t do it again 😅 the bonus was I discovered some new hills & bagged some trophies
Which hill round here goes up to 20%? Stock-a-bank is it? Sounds like a good route!
That's some good going!
@@DarenC yes hi I’m aware of stock a bank & other like little dale road , jubilee tower but I mean as in the short little but very steep streets like Denmark st , Coverdale rd , wharfedale rd , aysgarth rd , gerrard st , brettargh dr to name a few , I was like a yo yo that day 🥵
@@gcn thankyou very much Mr GCN appreciate your comment cheers 🚴🏼 ⛰️
@@252Scooby Ah! Gotcha! :D You mean more literally within Lancaster itself. I used to have friends on Haverbreaks, and I agree that Brettargh is a PITA!
Conor, you are a true Legend!
👑🥇
Congrats Connor. Well done for the effort. Not only local legend, but also a half everesting on a hill with some nasty gradients. All while making an entertaining video. The paranoia about the current legend pushing out the mark was priceless! Final point, please remember shouts for the QOMs as well as the KOMs. Emma Pooley has this one. That deserves a shout out.
There are 15 segments on my commute including one (barely) categorised climb. Joined Strava 2 months ago and got my first LCL recently. Bring on the winter months to test the motivation!
Winter can really push the motivation 🥶
Connor - I have ridden Bathwick Hill - it is the "soft" side - can you please REPEAT your "challenge" on the OTHER side - BRASSKNOCKER HILL - 1.082KM and 151M with 16% gradients - it is a real sweetheart but you need to ride it either early or late in the day as MOST cars struggle to get up it and there tends to be a steady stream of grinding autos during the rush hours - you start at Warminster Road and go to Claverton Down Road - eat and repeat 35X - now THAT would be damn impressive - it is .what some might call "a STIFFIE" - total is 5285M climbing - over 37.871KM for a M:KM Intensity of 139.553 M:KM - or averaging 13.955% gradient - HOO HAA - give it a GO
Nice video Conor. We are planning on an Everest on our local climb on summer solstice. Happens to be 35 laps! And weirdly the local legend happens to have 35 efforts in the last 90 days. Spooky.
Oooooo! You've got to for 36 lap... get the local legend too!
Bro. Somebody's gonna steal that one quickly and easily. You should have done a few extras just to seal the deal.
Great work! Don't forget, you've also completed a half Everesting. Solid effort 👏💪
True! We made a video on Andrew Feather's full Everesting attempt on GCN+! Check it out here 👉 gcn.eu/8848m
Great effort. I'm a local legend on most of the segments on my running routes.
Good effort for getting back out in the dark! I got a LL from a half Everesting earlier in the year (41 reps of a shorter hill) and I went through most of the same emotions…and I now know every crack in the tarmac…
Do you still ride that segment? 🚴
@@gcn Sadly, not on a regular basis as it's a very lumpy 50km from home to get there (it takes a hour by car). I'll be back next year to try the full Everesting...
Trouble with this method is that in 90 days time you will have to do it all again when you lose these 35 efforts.
We'll send him back out every 90 days from now on indefinitely 😉
well done Connor! (Your daughter is just too cute like my Granddaughters!!) Even an old geezer can hold some local legends ! (I have had 8) and seven top 10 KOMS we just have to keep going out there and doing the milage ! 🙂 keep going love the stuff you and the other guys get up to on GCN!
awesome video! great work. but please.... can you use the metric system in strava for videos?
Bathwick Hill is a killer - really feeling the pain through the screen
My wife has 11 local legends near us. Sadly, I can't ride often enough to get one. *shakes fist at work*
Great job, sir! Very impressive.
I believe "local legends" is not recorded if your privacy settings are set with any restrictions. You would think it would at least record it for your own and your follower's use.
y'all really been stepping up the music this year
My driveway has 2 separate entry/exit points, and it runs roughly parallel to the road. I thought about making a Strava segment on it so I could have the KoM and Local Legend status. I figured most people would be past it before realizing the need to turn slightly off the road. Then I discovered that the minimum length for a segment is 500 meters.
Hahahah sneaky!
@@gcn That's my best shot at getting a KoM!
Love this video!!! I think Connor brings a fun and positive energy to every video. Uhhhh...tubeless??? If so you proved again that tubeless isn't good for higher pressures.
There is a punchy short short 18% climb that comes out of the Humber River to Weston Rd. and me and some other guy in my area keep outdoing each other on a weekly basis.
Toronto? I didn't know that climb was so bad. Any alternative ways to connect to the Finch Hydro Corridors?
I'm talking about the Cruikshank park to Weston Rd. It's super short but really steep@@Frostbiker
@@raff5604 Oh, yeah! I've done that one. Spicy.
I know right? I keep trying to do it faster each time but lately it's been a little crowded@@Frostbiker
I've got 3 Local Legends at the moment but I've never been higher than 10th on a KoM
I have a couple local legends for a segment I've ridden twice
Managed 4 local legends last month in Dorset (2x cycle 2x run)🎉
I've held onto 10-15 local legend titles this summer, I can say when I get that email that it's been taken I become hyper motivated
i did the exact 😮 same number of climbs on a local climb a couple weeks ago. making me the local legend. 😂 was a fun project, but the monotony was weird. couple times i even lost count. people were looking at me weird. 😅
haven't watched yet, but i am sure my climb was way shorter and less steep (300m or so/7%)
I think everyone accepts that us cyclist are a strange lot by now 😉
only I noticed that it was first with a long sleeve, and then with a short one?
You've got 89 more days to log reps up the climb. Do 30 - 60 min daily for 89 days and you'll set an incredible mark to beat.
When you start accumulating "local legends" with only 2 or 3 attempts in 90 days, you know you live in a remote area
#GCN
Another genuine video by Conor!
Keep it up!!!...
how long after term starts will Conor lose his legend status to a student just going to Uni every day on their bike? I suppose only if they upload it to strava...
Great video! Just counted my local legends and have 54 of them so doing ok. What was you total distance and elevation out of interest?
You must be doing some serious miles! Are they on a commute?
@@gcn Yes on a daily commute. Doing around 450km each commuting week then recovering on the weekend before going again. Love the weekly challenge!
Conor if you ever need a dentist you can come to that Richmond Park segment; you'll find about 7 go past every minute
Aww wow amazing effort i couldn't do that I got a few on my area just riding to work and back every night 😊❤
Not a cycling question, but here it goes. Is it legal to park facing the opposite direction on roads in the UK?
I find it interesting and it seems that it would not be a safe way to park.
My understanding is that it's legal in urban areas (i.e. where there's streetlighting and a 30mph speed limit). If there are parking restrictions on one side of a particular street it's almost inevitable. Outside urban areas, or if the speed limit is over 30mph, you're likely to attract the attention of the Police, especially if it's nighttime. If you're really keen to know about UK traffic regulations then Google "UK Highway Code". I assume it's online now. This will give you as much information as you need - though I would stress this partly a best practice guide (it also, in the past at least, contains the legal position too).
This is the cycling equivalent of writing the paper the day before it's due. You had 90 days mate
Well done Connor good goin,where's manon ???
Did intervals up a 6mile climb and created it 3x yesterday. Doing that 3x as an out and back is intolerable enough😅
Legend mate!
Geez Connor you should have kept going and got an Everesting!
That's a whole different video 👀
Can an Everesting Attempt be next?
That could be an idea! In the meantime, check out the Everesting film we did with Andrew Feather on GCN+ 👉 gcn.eu/8848m
of course Emma has the QOM on that climb.
What was total climb?
35*431 ft
Congrats! I'm old, I'm slow but I ride as much as I can, and if it's more than you, well so be it!😁 Love the Local Legend status and plan on keeping mine. lol
Nice one!
Does strava decide where to place segments? I live in an area where there were barely any segments around when I tried a month of strava. Didn’t really mean much to me paying for a service that doesn’t really apply to anywhere I cycle.
No, people can create them. You can create them. As long as you are a premium member. It will also back populate a newly created segment for anyone who has ever ridden it before too, so if you create one, you will find after a few hours a leaderboard populated with hundreds of riders.
Fun idea! Would one have to record 35 different times or can it be one long record where all 35 efforts are recorded?
You can do it one ride / recording session
Do you need to have 35 different workout or can it be 1 workout to get the efforts? I am keen on getting local legends on some sections in my area.
You can do it over any number of rides!
You’ll keep it for a few days and someone always takes it as it’s on there daily commute.
Well done Connor ❤
Connor the great!!!
Strava has you marked as Local Legend, but with 34 transitions. #offbyone is an infamous computer programming bug!
Breaking News: Huge jams in Bath as thousands of cyclists attempt to displace Connor from Local legend.
I wanna be the best cyclist of all time i wanna win the tdf 8 times the giro d'italia 5 times and other races 3 times and i wann be able to finish a 20 mile tt in 28 mins i wanna be better than everybody in this sport but idk is this really possible ?
That's how I usually do it.
Sadly, After this video, you won’t remain local legend for very long… it will be fun To watch
Do you get local legend status if you are an e-bike rider?
🚲
Willing to bet a tenner that the next day he lost the laurel wreath back to the guy he took it from.
We'll send him back out 😉
Local Legend is a useful Strava feature. It's all for commuter and not serious riders.
Are you the son of Graham Chapman?
so people do care about this
It's LL in 90 days. You don't have to do them all in 1 day. Come back and do 10 more the next weekend. 😅
Good on you though.
Where's the challenge in that 😉
Can you do this without getting arrested or at least being looked at by locals? I'm pretty sure you'd just get yelled at by somebody when you ride the same street 30+ times in my town...
Cycling isn’t illegal, what would you get arrested for😂
@@HkFinn83 It's indeed a little exaggerated but we in Austria have a paragraph prohibiting "pointless" driving, albeit only applied to the usual "block runs" with your tuned car, nobody got ever fined for Everesting. I was just wondering if half-everesting a local main road didn't draw any attention at all...
Was Connor riding on roads in the dark with no lights?????
I occasionally pick some up on my commute and another little ridden segment that nobody else seems to ride more than my once or twice a month.
Shout out to Emma Pooley for having that QOM. Thought her ex colleagues might have mentioned it.
It's always fun picking up a QOM 🙌
Can you imagine riding up that climb on your way home after work or class, looking over your shoulder, and seeing a 6'8" giant sprinting towards you and yelling, "This is MY climb!!!"
Hahahah nightmares for sure 😈
7:32 we can see the Strava cyclist Conor talked about passing by in the background at full speed
This "Praça da Reitoria" in São Paulo is inside University of São Paulo Campus. There was a velodrome there that is closed so people start to ride in this roundabout instead
Acredito que o recorde pertença a um sujeito que usa a rotatória para treinar com uma recumbent bike movimentada pelos braços. Já o vi algumas vezes por lá e ele fica no local por horas, dando voltas seguidas. 21 voltas por dia é pouco para ele. Provavelmente ele fez isso em alguns poucos dias dentro do período de 90 dias.
I am a local legend on a very obscure 37km segment. There are quiete a few short derivations one could take (and do), but on these specific 37km I am the legend.
Legend status activated 😉
It's ridiculous how many times people go over the same segments🤯 I was the local legend on numerous segments in my area, often with 1 or 2 attempts over 90 days. I guess no one is riding in the steppes of southeastern Kazakhstan😅 Just checked my Strava, and I'm the local legend on 7 segments at the moment)
I always thought that Bath was supposed to have outstanding masonry- I'm a stonemason to trade (lapsed admittedly lol) and that wall around the 10:05 mark looks to have been raised in height and the quality of the work is shocking....
That's true determination to go out at night again, to get the local legend, after such a long day!
Pure determination! Let's see how long he keeps it for 👀
Emma Pooley not getting some love. 🤨
Yeah, could have mentioned her!
No mention for Emma as the QOM? GCN you are seriously slipping.... She blinking worked for you...
connor cycling past that same house/shop 11 times is going to be like the cat/deja-vu scene from The Matrix for those watching him through their bedroom/living room window
"WTH is wrong with that giant?"
*sips tea
Strava makes us do some strange stuff 😂
C'mon Conor, do it as many times in the next 89 days as you can! Set the record out of reach for everyone else.
Major kudos to anyone who heads BACK out at 9pm on a second ride across town and up and down hills in the dark!
I put more value in KOMs (6!) and the top tens contributing to my Veloviewer scores but this got me interested in searching out contested LLs.
I don't see a how you're able to list them (yet) but the ones I have come (and go) from normal riding on the roads near home. I don't put any effort into them but that's because it's often not too difficult to get one here in NC where, unfortunately cycling (or any outdoor activity) is a relative rarity. (The closest most locals here get to athletic activity is WATCHING *ball games!)
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
not bad, not quite the everest challenge, but at least you made one enemy.
We have an Everest challenge we filmed with Andrew Feather on GCN+! Check it out here 👉 gcn.eu/8848m
You guys finally noticed Nick Wheatley-Schaller -- I've never met him, but he's well-known among NYC cyclists for dominating all of the segments local legends in Central Park. The guy is incredible, in some stretches riding 90+ miles in Central Park almost every morning before work. That is a guy I would love to see on the program. Paired with Andrew Feather for some amateur fast laps around CP...
Sounds like a true legend 🙌
Update us on how long it last lol
KOM'ing on the freds
There’s something special about being a local legend of most segments on my commute. It shows whilst I may not be the fastest, I’m certainly the most committed and consistent, even on a fairly popular (at least locally) cycling route.
It also might show you how much you've saved with not commuting by car or public transport!
@@gcn not that a 10 year old road bike is cheap to maintain all the time 😅
@@VideobyKB It's cheaper to maintain than a 10 year old car though 😉
Being the local legend on a segment called "Car Bait" is erm.... a strange badge I've gotten. 3-4ft wide bike path between car lanes as they shift through it trying to get to a highway on-ramp, and only sometimes use turn signals.
That makes me insane, right?
LOL - I was going to comment that it would be funny for the current local legend sniffing out competition and heading out to stave off Conor's challenge - then paranoid Conor beat me to it! 😂
Great job and a half-Everesting too!
Many years ago I was a student at Bath. I used to commute up that hill. No Strava in those days, of course, but five ascents per week over 90 days? That's a bit more than 35...
Yeah that occured to me watching as well. Not one student/teacher who bikes to the University that way and has Strava?
Summer holidays from uni making it easier?
@@seanoleary771a) not many people cycle to uni (I went to Bath) and b) if you do cycle, you might also come in on two of the other hills around it which are less busy and just, if not more, as steep
My current LL's are:
Ride Paradise to Second Beach 1.38 mi 127 ft 20
Ride llaF ehT nO gnippaW 0.85 mi 68 ft 37
Ride Middle Rd to second stop sign 1.14 mi 29 ft 28
Ride a beach and a hill 2.98 mi 112 ft 33
Ride Wyatt Rd West to Berkeley 0.61 mi 47 ft 35
Ride Lucy's Lament 0.35 mi 94 ft 34
The one I consider actually meaningful being Lucy's Lament. A nasty little short hill in an otherwise nice part of the world. Most folks duck it by taking two side roads to avoid it. The rest are really just segments I do a lot because they are close to home and I am bound to run over them - just when out riding. Not really climbing segments.
Went out last week and rode 100 km on a new bridge here in Ottawa. It's 1 km from end to end ;p
5000m, that is well hardcore!!! Super effort Conor
I got local legend on a little stretch near me by doing it... twice.
I got 6th on a stretch up a hill, on a day when I was literally trying to go slow because I was feeling weary but still wanted to go on a ride. Only 20 people had even ever been recorded on that stretch, and it is a decent bike path.
This is in a highly populated area.
Did not feel good getting those achievements. Did feel good getting LL on my way to work at the last place I lived though. At least there I had competition.
I think he aged the Local Legends feature by 6 years (added in 2020 IIRC), but it's something I quite like going for at times. I've grabbed Local Legend on various segments quite often - maintaining them for more than a month or so is another matter... 😂😂
Conns, you say you are like a dog, marking your territory?!
You ARE The Big dog, the Boss, not a little spaniel like Hank, or a chihuahua like Ollie, or even a Si like sausage dog! You are the GCN Pitbull/Greyhound cross. Tbh, as you now have that record, maybe an Irish setter 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Err. Boss?! So Ollie gets to ride the Tour des Stations for his GCN 2023 summer challenge; Si does Inferno; Hank gets to ride to the pub with Mark Beaumont. And you want me to ride up and down Bathwick Hill all day long? Right!"