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You may have seen that I’ve given all of the climbs a Wheelygood difficulty level and wondered what exactly it meant, so here’s my attempt at explaining it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing I’d say is that it is in no way scientific: I do have some ideas on that score involving altitude information and a trick similar to TrainingPeaks<\/a>‘ concept of Normalized Power<\/a>, but that’s in the future and it’s way more fun doing it this way for now! Despite this, I have tried to remove as much bias as I can for things like weather conditions and, indeed, my own fatigue levels. That said, I will admit to a slight skewing on the idea of what constitutes ‘steep’ and, for this, I blame the Fred Whitton<\/a> – after both of my trips over there (which I can absolutely recommend as it’s a fantastic event), I’ve come out of it feeling that anything under 12% is flat. This is because there are so many sections way over 15% that I get desensitised to the gradient and, having now chosen to take on the gamut of Simon Warren climbs, I seem to be stuck with this characteristic. I can only offer my apologies on this score and shall keep taking the tablets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please take them for what they are, which is a rough, relative<\/em>, guide to my feelings on the severity of each climb. There’s no need to agree – I’m a particular kind of rider and have certain preferences when it comes to climbing, but that’s certainly not to say that I’m in any way ‘right’ about anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the grading levels work something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n