Hills,climbing

[Ted S.]

I am looking for a good place to train some hills. looking for a trail or fire service road with sustained climbing. I haven't been living in Augusta long and not sure where I should go.??

[seenvic]

Road bike. Fort Gordon.

MTB. Tower (FATS) area. Best fireroads for climbing are Duck Pond Rd and Buzzards Chute Rd. These are off of Woodlawn in the area of the Tower Loop. Also, Philpot Road isn't bad (the North FATS parking lot is on Philpot Rd). It gets steeper if you don't get onto Big Rock Loop and just stay on Philpot Rd. The other two I mention here are to your left and to your right when you are at the Philpot Rd/Woodlawn intersection.

Also, the road that goes down to the Brown Wave is good, but not as steep.

Thurmond and Chota (a mile east of FATS main lot) are also good. I live on Chota and it has a nice climb out from Stevens Creek.

Locally that is best I know of. If you go about 2.5 - 3 hours north, into WNC, there is a larger selection to choose from. Curtis Creek Rd being one that comes to mind.

[EdgeE]

Many good ones around Horn Creek area - Hunters Run off Horn Creek West heads toward Edgefield & has some hills

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Jun 11, 2010 11:06:12 GMT -5 seenvic said:

If you go about 2.5 - 3 hours north, into WNC, there is a larger selection to choose from. Curtis Creek Rd being one that comes to mind.

Oh god CUrtis Creek. We just got back from a trip that included heartbreak. we decided to climb curtis creek and up the parkway, instead of doing the toll road for the second time this year. I am not sure which way was worse. Curtis creek is the steepest, longest gravel road I have ever been on. I didn't think it would ever end. Brian (aka the hammer) pounded it out in just over an hour. it took me closer to 1:17 and the rest were a few minutes behind.

i don't know how you guys did it in oramm. i am not sure that I could complete that in the allowed time. brian said it was hell.

[Ted S.]

Thanks guys. I am glad you mentioned ORAMM as that is why I want to train on some hills. I have never done the race before and trying to get prepared and physch'ed up for it.

I will try Duck Pond Rd and Buzzards Chute Rd, I have trained a bit already on the other local rds.

Aloha