The Longest Climb in the World? - Worst Retirement Ever - Letras, Colombia
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Quit cycling immediately ! Your true talent is obviously singing 🎤 !!!
Phil, what is the Sky Ketone magic juice?
BTW, great clip and loved your delirious ramblings at the end!
Hahahahha
@@aidenheke4462 I think it's HVMN Ketone Ester.
hey bro... I'm Colombian. You are awesome. When I was 19 I rode my country like mad. I'm 67 now and still ride. As long as you like suffering... you are find.
Hope you return soon, we have more savage climbs for you, a few things to clarify:
- Official record: 3:02:34, made in El Clásico RCN, in 2017. The rider went solo.
- Vuelta Colombia ≠ Tour of Colombia 2.1
- Here in Colombia we ride alongside traffic, bike lanes are only in cities.
- Obviously there are longer climbs than Letras (even here in Colombia there is a 96km climb, El Crucero from Aguazul to Sogamoso) but Letras is the only UCI measured/approved/whatever.
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but was it on strava~ 😃
Enserio hay una más larga interesante toca ir
Official? name? where? Please post. I don't believe it when the fastest pros raced up it in a group.
Daniel López parce que más? El record es de Santiago Botero, creo que estuvo por debajo de 3 horas, como 2 cuarenta y algo.
“If that’s annoying, imagine being me”.
Quote of the year 😆
Next up: "The Hawaiian volcano of Mauna Kea ("white mountain") is considered one of the most extreme cycling climbs in the world. From the beach in Hilo to the telescopes at the summit it's 4,200m of altitude gain in one continuous climb of nearly 70km"
He did it!!listen him at 8:12 .
Why he ddint come here in taiwan..and join the taiwan kom challenge..i hope you guys know how hard it is..😂
To clarify, it's the longest climb featured in pro cycling, UCI 2.1 race, vuelta a colombia, there are other ones, in fact, you can continue climbing after letras, for other 16km, to 4500 meters, towards the volcano El Ruiz on the left, cheers, very good efforts 👌💪💪
Exactly! We Colombians are also chauvinistic as any other nationality. If you keep going 5 Km on the same national road, you turn left and take the road to Nevado del Ruiz. It's paved 1Km beyond Cerro Guali (4000m), but, as with Mauna Kea, it's gravel from there until the refugio (4300m) or, if lucky, until the highest parking at 4800m.
Because it's an irregular climb you end up doing 5700m of elevation gain in 117Kms until Guali. The rest, as with Mauna Kea, is just an anecdote
However, I'm pretty sure, in Chile and Peru, you might find higher and longer mountain passes
Oh good to know. Thank you!
That´s true
@@jaimegu very high...
Oh man.. thanks for the ending tune. That wont be stuck in my head ever 😑 Another great one!!👍👍
Didn’t know you were a cyclist haha. Been watching your channel for a couple years and I never knew. Ride on dude 🤟🏼
🎶 'The first bit is the steepest' 🎶 😂😂😂 Absolutely brilliant! Love that 👌
Nicely done. You are on first page, #25 on the Strava. And correctly all the top 50 results come from big groups having raced. So your individual work is commendable.
Nice analysis. Thanks for coming to Colombia. Thank You...
Dude... love your channel man... Some of the best stuff on the internet!
I remember riding a long ride for charity and the theme from Sanford and Son kept playing over and over in my head. It set the cadence pretty well.
No words. Huge effort. Recover well.
I have no idea how I didnt know about this channel before. This is amazing. Thank you so much!
sharing what you thought about the entire ride was super interesting thanks a ton. not deep or anything just a very relatable experience being stuck in my head for too long
Yes! Phil v.s. Mauna Kea!
He's already done it! Segment is 10729084
www.strava.com/segments/12484352 52 miles at 5% , 13,600 climb Phil did it in 4:49:25 got the KOM
Awesome job Phil! And that song in your head, i can relate, not pleasant after a few hours!
Great story Phil! I like how it bounces around and its like we were in Colombia with you! Great video!
Colombia not Columbia
@@JuanRivera-wg8iv that's auto correct for u
how about giving phil an old steel bike from the 80s, no fancy scientific food shit, no computers, all the time in the world and above all no need to do anything better. lets see how he does then! KEEP SPINNING, PHIL
Fantastic Video Phil! Btw. Loved your Michelin 5 star rating for our roadside foods. Must agree.
Great video, although it seems the saturation is a bit low. Colombia is so green gotta show it off lol
Catalan Loco the cameraman put the camera on a flat profile (designed to make it easier to color later) and never put a color on it. No biggie but that’s why it looks ... flat.
It reflects Phil blood O2 saturation, which at that elevation must be pretty poor!
Holy cow: I sooo identified with the ending of that video. I do crazy solo miles and Im always singing to myself the stupidest renditions of song in my head the whole damn day.
Me too! Funny how no-one from pros and cycling related channels speaks about this as mental boost. I discovered it somehow accidentally.
Nicely done, especially the delirium at the end ;). Just picking up on your videos, Can't wait to watch more.
Don't we all got this sort of endless track in our head sometimes? Kudos for performing your's at the end. Great videos
Awesome ride!
Minor feedback on the edit: the color grading is all over the place. Some frames look like raw-flat footage with no color grading while others are heavily color graded. Just a small tip :) love your content though
Man it’s a lot to get all this stuff filmed and edited. My priority is to tell the story first and make it pretty second. Work in progress and I’m always trying to improve it. Thanks for watching
Phil Gaimon dude! I didn’t mean to take away from the story, I loved the video and it does nothing but inspire me to ride more
@@worstretirementever It looks like one of your cameras is set to a cinema profile for video recording which results in very flat looking footage. An easy way to make your videos look more consistent would be to change the recording mode to a different color profile with more contrast built into it. Most cameras should be able to let you do that fairly easily. What are you shooting with?
@@millbluemedia4676 He's shooting with his wattage bazookas.
Thomas Joseph yeah, it’s like they forgot the camera in log and don’t know what it is 😂
I’m really, really glad I’m not the only idiot who sings in himself on tough rides! I thought I was crazy.
Gotta love Phil Gaimon. So much humour and style.
Favorite video of yours by far, great effort, cheers from Bogotá.
Yeah this was so good. Phil is really an inspiration.
I used to have some good lungs back in the day, but man, 300+W over 200 minutes? That's no joke. Someone trained a lot!
Is that average of the pedaling done or the full ride?
yeah I'd love to know if they have the calculation set to include or exclude the 0w time periods. either way that is a monster effort.
Ahh i really felt for Phil there, what a ride...! pretty bloody serious effort to keel over at the end... #respect
Been cycling for about 8 months ,what a great way to excercise bit older 53 ,but great cardio workout/I chest pump it’s great being in fifties and to be able to do this ,feel great 👍 32 inch waist 😀aiming for marathon under 4 hrs when 60/ it’s like I am living my 20/30 s now
Your "worst retirement" just keeps getting better! Love it. I have literally sung that song on some climbs myself. :)
Thinking of Omaira Sanchez suffering made him think his suffering while climbing alto de letras was a luxury. I will keep that in mind while doing long training.
Dude! Your epic challenges and commentary are Legendary. So awesome and so funny.
Epa mijito !! Hell of a ride man
This channel ROCKS!!!
dude, i starting laughing out loud on the trainer when you broke into Sheryl Crow. A long time for that song to play in your head, indeed!
You're a true inspiration to cyclists. In my mind you have always been one of the greatest
Come to Denver! You can ride up to Mt. Evans at 14,264 ft - you can start riding at 5400 feet and with some ups and downs along the way it will wind up being just shy of 12,000 vert in 50 miles!
Do not think I have seen you that spent in a video before. Great job. Thanks for telling the story of the village that was destroyed. Great story telling Phil.
Legend!!!Keep up with this channel and good videos.One of my favorite ciclist of all time.
great video. bet that was a really memorable experience.
Awesome effort. Definitely putting this climb on the bucket list.
By the way. I want to see you climb Haleakala on Maui. So many great views with a very steady gradient throughout. Paved all the way from 0-10,000 ft.
You follow Levi dont you
@@dw-kf5fd Levi? Don't think so. I have actually done the Haleakala climb myself
Jeez, killer effort. Well done.
Granada, Spain -> Pico De Veleta. Continous climb from 672m to 3373m in less than 50k (you'd need a bit of technical skills on the glaciered deteriated paved road above 3320m). Climb is significantly shorter if you start from Güejar Sierra where the Vuelta/Ruta del Sol usualy starts when they climb to Mazallanas but that would add a 100-150m in start elevation.
Great! I was waiting for this video. Thanks Phil.
Dude, you're the best, just the best. Love it
Very inspiring on many levels. Thanks!
I would totally trade you this Chicago COLD for the Columbia sun. I haven’t even touched the pedals and we’re 4.5 months into the year. At multiple times during the video I was tempted to go through on my bibs just so I could live vicariously through you on your epic ride.
Will you do doi inthannon in Thailand? Would love to see that one day.
Loved this vid. Twice!?! So impressive
Amazing your KOM in our beloved and suffered PATIOS in Colombia, I saw your video uploading LETTERS. Tough, isn't it? Congratulations.
Massive ride Phil, huge power for that amount of time. Well done buddy.
Phil Gaimon - Legend period.
Being in the middle of Draft Animals, I am feeling some extra context on your journey. These videos are so good for cycling Phil! I know you know that, that’s the reason you do them I assume, but it really is quite a journey. We common mortal cyclist can distill it into the essence of this great sport and anyone of us personal journey.
Thank you!
Phil someday you have got to do the road climb that takes you 3/4 of the way up Mt Fuji, Japan. Amazing surface, hairpins galore. 5th station rest house at the top! Oh yeah there is a KOM ;)
Love your jokes and humor!
Yves M is a treasure. Helped me find a local distributor a few years ago.
Distributor of that good kush?
The record, I believe, is Santiago Botero's (not in Strava) from a Vuelta a Colombia.
New to cycling here. Someone recommended your book. While I was reading it, it occurred to me to look for you on Strava. Which led me to your TH-cam channel. Um... cycling, travel, humor -- what's not to love?! #NewFan Will stick around to learn what the deal is with the cookies if nothing else.
He just loves cookies. It's a thing for him. I have two of his books, and I got to meet him at a bike shop here in Vegas once for a book signing. I think he may have been instrumental in me finally getting Strava too. I was watching his channel before I got the app.
@0:53 Love that setup!
Super impressed. Amazing - you're crazy.
Good job Phil! 👍💪😀🇨🇴
Great stuff Phil - I really enjoy your channel and what you do for climbing by road bike. By the way, we are taking Javier international next month on our trip to document bike climbs of Mt. Fuji, Doi Inthanon and Wuling Pass. Thanks again for the fantastic and entertaining material. jj
Awesome job Phil, glad to see you did't let that climb get the beat of you! You reminded me of Bryan Fogel in Icarus where he is sprawled out in that store on top of Mt. Ventoux! Again great job and was glad you went back to get revenge on it!
Very nicely done!!! Funny thing.... I'm watching this video while in my Normatec's after riding 100 miles with Camilo Villegas, the rider whom you mention in the video!! Make no mistake... I ride with him a few days a week..... he rides as well as he swings a golf club!!!! He's a true BEAST!!! I'm having so much fun watching you KILL all these climbs!!! Let the retirement roll on!!! 💪
Nice Kurt!
Great episode, Phil! What an effort. The delirious rambling at the end was great.
Didnt know that Jim Carrey was into cycling...
The quality of these videos got SO GOOD, keep up the good job man
TIL that Phil Gaimon repeats random song lyrics ad nauseam while slamming out 300 watts like I do at 150.
"and if that's annoying, imagine being me" 🤣
Great content; got that polished editing thing going on here, too... Sweet!
Thank you for a wonderful vlog. I always look forward to your stuff Phil. Hope you visit Melbourne one day Phil.
well done Phil!
0:38 seconds in misspelled Colombia with "COLUMBIA".
Congratulations Phil you have the voice of an angel. I also need a couple of bottles of that potion to rescue my marriage.
I was born about 2hr away. have done this climb many times as a kid.
Hahahaha worth the wait! Your singing is so delirious hahaha! Dude awesome! Keep at it! Love the content!
Love the vid and what an effort X2! and such a cool treat at the end:)
Welcome to Colombia!!! Best channel. Thank you!
Thank you it was great there!
Nice job.. congrats 👍
Another awesome video :)
thanks for the links at the end of the clip, gonna support some of your sponsers
Hey thank you!
The singing part is gold.
If you examined the Strava graph for Alto Las Letras your reconnaissance of slope changes would have been adequate. The dips are clear in gradient and distance measures.
Great job! Second time is the charm!
Phil you can try AGT, bro the golden buzzer is yours!!
Nice and brutal climb btw. 👍
Awesome video and adventure - thanks for sharing. 👍
Great video! Curious why no "be seen" lights (rear/front blinkies)? Life savers.
Thank you! Very entertaining!
Best so far!!! More cool cycling clips, please.
This may be longer, but Haleakala may be tougher since it's sea level to 10,000+ feet in around 60km.
Haleakala is hard, but everest is harder.... and them Pluton
10,000+ feet in around 60km?! That should be illegal lol
Just wanting to get off the bike and lie down on the road... that's me every time.
This was a fantastic episode and I laughed out lout at the end. You were surely loosing your mind there at least a bit.
I was under the impression thet you were more apt for shorter, punchier climbs. Clearly not!. 3:30, oh my!
Anyways, now I'm motivated to go out for a long one. Thanks for the great content!
Thank you!
inspiring Phil. thanks.
Do it again! Yay! You did it again!
Can't say you didn't leave it all on the road. Top graft ✔👍💪🍪🍪🏆🌈🏔🌍🚴♂️
Great video Phil. Great cycling, but poignant too
Incredible ride.
Great episode!
This guy is humble funny and has a talent for singing! Great content man i sub!
Thanks lots more coming! Xo