dgl2
Maximum Pace
- Nov 3, 2007
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Climbing in Chiba
The one time I traveled through the middle of the Boso peninsula was on a hike with a boy scout troop when I was in Japan in the 1980s as a student (I was working with one of the troop fathers that summer), and it was definitely very hilly, and the hike was at night, and it poured rain the entire time. So I'll grant you that it might not be flat, or easy.
But it still looks more like Noto hilly, not Nishi Izu hilly? The 400 km event that Jerome B. and I did in October (Numazu-Karuizawa-Numazu), had 4500+ meters of climbing (4870 meters according to Garmin Connect), including numerous long climbs (Shinshu Toge, Umagoe Toge, Saku to Nobeyama, Kofu to Shoji-ko), and the 400 km event I did the year prior started with a bunch of little hills, then Yanagisawa Pass and down to Enzan, then looped around Kofu and up the slope to near Yatsugatake, then back down to the west of Kofu, then lots of climbing up to Motosu-ko and around Mt. Fuji at night, past the Safari Park on the S. side, ... 5000 meters of elevation gain when my GPS battery died 40 km from the end ...
So unless the roads are really steep, I still think a very long series of up/down/up/down -- short climbs mixed with flat and rollers -- looks easier on paper, as it were, than either of those. If the weather and my schedule cooperate, I'll let you know.
Anyone else interested?
The one time I traveled through the middle of the Boso peninsula was on a hike with a boy scout troop when I was in Japan in the 1980s as a student (I was working with one of the troop fathers that summer), and it was definitely very hilly, and the hike was at night, and it poured rain the entire time. So I'll grant you that it might not be flat, or easy.
But it still looks more like Noto hilly, not Nishi Izu hilly? The 400 km event that Jerome B. and I did in October (Numazu-Karuizawa-Numazu), had 4500+ meters of climbing (4870 meters according to Garmin Connect), including numerous long climbs (Shinshu Toge, Umagoe Toge, Saku to Nobeyama, Kofu to Shoji-ko), and the 400 km event I did the year prior started with a bunch of little hills, then Yanagisawa Pass and down to Enzan, then looped around Kofu and up the slope to near Yatsugatake, then back down to the west of Kofu, then lots of climbing up to Motosu-ko and around Mt. Fuji at night, past the Safari Park on the S. side, ... 5000 meters of elevation gain when my GPS battery died 40 km from the end ...
So unless the roads are really steep, I still think a very long series of up/down/up/down -- short climbs mixed with flat and rollers -- looks easier on paper, as it were, than either of those. If the weather and my schedule cooperate, I'll let you know.
Anyone else interested?