I was thinking it would be a good idea to add a "Difficulty" field and/or a "Category" (Hill, Flat) field to local loops. Something that describes the loop other than just the route. This way, when someone is looking through our loops, they can search for grueling hill climbs or easy flats, ect..

Yesterday I did what would appear to be a nice 15 mile ride. The only problem with this ride is that it includes King Hill here in Hanover. If someone that doesn't know Hanover and decides to try out that loop, they are going to get quite a surprise when they take that right off Etna road onto King Road.

This would also give us the ability to say, "You want to try a hill, here are a bunch of hills in the area, and here are the relative difficulty levels."

What do people think? Good idea, bad idea?

Ryan, how difficult would it be to implement something like this?
 
"If you brake, you don't win." Racer Mario Cipollini

King hill has been my secret training weapon for several years, now the secret is out. The King road hill climb is in the local loops Ken, current best is 8:57 if you want something to shoot for. You can also attack Stevens, join Wayne and myself as we try to be the first to crack the 6 minute barrier.
 
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I didn't time mine, but it was probably somewhere between 11 and 12 minutes. It was very painfull, and it didn't help that Brad was pretty much doing circles around me as we were going up. He would climb, then turn around and come back, then climb, ect...... He did encourage me "Only another mile, your doing great!!" I never recovered from the initial 19%, even on the flatter section right after. My HR never went below 165.
 
"If you brake, you don't win." Racer Mario Cipollini

Perhaps we need category & difficulty. Discuss and come up with a set of standards for all the sports/activities, and someday I'll see about implementing them.

Ken, I'm working on that project we've talked about, and in the process updating anything I think is lacking. The difficulty will be in applying the changes to the existing data since there will often be no way to correlate the data (i.e. how do you make a Temp value of 0-32 degrees fit a new Temp value of 10-20 degrees). Right now I'm just updating the lists but someday when I get around to it I'll add the code to my project to work with the lists, then I can update TP with a whole new system (sometime around the year 2100 I should finish up this project).

[quote:ae433e1eb1="Brian"]King hill has been my secret training weapon for several years, now the secret is out. The King road hill climb is in the local loops Ken, current best is 8:57 if you want something to shoot for. You can also attack Stevens, join Wayne and myself as we try to be the first to crack the 6 minute barrier.[/quote:ae433e1eb1]

Well, I got Ryan on King Hill today and I think he liked it ..... when we got to the top.

-- Ken
 
"If you brake, you don't win." Racer Mario Cipollini

The loop we did today Ken, was fun except for maybe the first half of King Hill, that's a nasty little hill.

Ryan