A Morning Rhydypandy Hill Climb

rhyd y pandy road hill climb

Somehow the other night I ended up on the Swansea Wheelers website, I dunno how I got there but I did. I’m not sure what I think about the whole cycle club thing, it’s certainly not for me at this time but I like the idea of regular as clockwork club runs.

In their list of events I noticed that they run an annual hill climb in October just up the road from my house so I have decided that if it’s open to non-members, as it has been in the past, I will enter and destroy them. This morning I rode over to check out ‘the hill’, it’s nothing epic, just 500ft elevation over 2 miles; in fact had I bothered to have breakfast before going over there I probably wouldn’t have even nearly had a heart attack. The fastest time is 7.21 set by a chap named Rohan Davies back in 2000, it took me 10.00 today.

I love climbing hills, I’m going to start nailing this route a few times a week and in October the Clase Cannonball will go down in the history books of Swansea Wheelers, mark my words.

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Posted in Riding on 13/08/2011
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  • Anon Thomas

    Nice to see your presence at Swansea Wheelers Hill Climb Mr Clase Cannonball, would have loved to see how you did against everybody else considering your fast 10 minute time !!!

    • http://www.thefootdown.co.uk Ty

      Haha, I really should’ve had some breakfast and more than a couple of miles warm up. I’ve been up there another couple of times since, it’s actually a pretty gruelling hill but I don’t know why. I moved down into town not long after that post so my plans of training on there fizzled out pretty quickly.