For those interested in the technical detail of our trip, we have provided links to various files containing information which would be useful to plan your own trip, or just get more detail about ours.
The following table shows elevation gain and lose and mileage for each day, as well as totals and averages.
Table.
The following link provides elevation profiles for each day of the trip and for the total trip
Profiles
Files containing GPS routes and tracks for each day's ride. There is one file for each day. The file contains both our planned ride (route) and our actual ride (track).
Day 1 - Pikeville to Wise
Day 2 - Wise to Kingsport
Day 3 - Kingsport to Damascus
Day 4 - Damscus to Galax
Day 5 - Galax to Stuart
Day 6 - Stuart to Floyd
Day 7 - Floyd to Roanoke
Some additional facts about day 2, our hardest climbing day - the one with the steep mud road from Wise to Kingsport:
After some work calculating slope or percent grade I noticed something interesting. There was actually a short section toward the start on the way up, about 360 foot long, that was over 20% grade! From the bottom of our climb to just short of the top the average grade was 10.45%. The first mile or so on the down hill side had a grade of 9.34%, the road then flattened out (relatively speaking) for a short distance before resuming down at an average grade of 10.92%. No wonder we had to replace our brake pads that night!
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