This past Saturday, three coworkers decided to take on one of the most brutally idiotic cycling challenge ever invented: Everesting. As the name implies, this is about elevation. And the rule is rather simple: accumulate, in one ride, the elevation of Mt. Everest. 8,848 meters of pain or, for my less metric-inclined friends, 29,028 feet.
They settled on Hawk Hill for the location. It’s a benchmark segment for riders in the area, known for its bautiful vistas of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco and the Marin Headlands. It took them just shy of 50 reps and slightly over 16 hours to accomplish the feat – that’s riding time only, mind you. A full post is expected to drop on the Strava blog soon, so I won’t spoil it too much. I did go twice over the bridge that day to capture a bit of their achievement.
The full gallery is here.