{"id":267,"date":"2016-03-02T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/?p=267"},"modified":"2016-03-02T15:07:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:07:29","slug":"crow-road-climb-south-side-from-lennoxtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Crow Road climb, south side from Lennoxtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the side of the climb I have probably done most often, and also quite a few times just up to the car park, about 1\/2 way. It&#8217;s about 2.5 miles for the full climb. The car park is pretty much the finish of the Glasgow Green Cycle Club hill climb course; going for the full climb, for me, requires holding back a little to the car park as the steepest parts of the second half of the full climb are just after the car park, and after a short relief, again just after that. It flattens nearer the top (the whole hill is pretty much convex like an upturned pudding bowl) and I can spin up a 69&#8243; gear quite nicely. Eminently do-able on my 46\/18 fixed and single speed (69&#8243;), and also 46\/17 73&#8243;). I chose 54&#8243; for the last hill climb event (which turned out to be too low, I think) and did it in 8:38 (approximately to the car park) and with 69&#8243; my best is just on 10 minutes. i would think a 62&#8243; or 66&#8243; gear might be best for me. The full climb is a little over 20 minutes for me. The thing that makes this climb a little easier, given its maximum steepness, is that there are flatter sections here and there where I can get back in the saddle for a bit! <iframe style=\"width:100%;height:600px;\" src=\"http:\/\/veloviewer.com\/segments\/8194858\/embed2\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the side of the climb I have probably done most often, and also quite a few times just up to the car park, about 1\/2 way. It&#8217;s about 2.5 miles for the full climb. The car park is pretty much the finish of the Glasgow Green Cycle Club hill climb course; going for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paDNTg-4j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briansutton.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}