What a fun experience to ride the Six Gap Century 15 years after I first rode it in 1996. Fifteen years ago, there were about 200 riders assembled at the North Georgia College campus gymnasium to head out of town to tackle six mountains. On the very first climb, we rode from a sunny valley up into the fog and I still remember thinking maybe this is what it feels like to climb L’Alpe du Huez. Fifteen years later, yesterday, thousands of riders assembled at the North Lumpkin Co High School parking lot to tackle the same climbs. I’ll write up more about how the ride went yesterday and post a race report from the crit Saturday night later, but I wanted to go ahead and post all the data from the ride. As a quick summary, I ended up crossing the line together with Jimmy Schurman (Chemstar) in a few minutes over 5 hours after Mike Stone (Hincapie Devo) flatted on the Unicoi Gap descent taking him out of our three-man group established halfway up the first climb (Neels Gap). Click on each image below for a zoomed in view, all graphs are smoothed at 30 seconds from Golden Cheetah:
2011-09-25 Six Gap heart/rate power data
INTERVAL/POWER DATA SUMMARY IN THE IMAGE BELOW:
2011-09-25 Six Gap interval summary
2011-09-25 Annotated Six Gap power map
2011-09-25 Neels Gap power/heartrate data
2011-09-25 Jacks Gap power/heartrate data
2011-09-25 Unicoi Gap power/heartrate data
2011-09-25 Hogpen Gap power/heartrate data
2011-09-25 Wolfpen Gap power/heartrate data
2011-09-25 Woody Gap power/heartrate data
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