How Steep Can I Go?
The average grade is easy to calculate, assuming you know the distance of the climb and the total elevation gain. ... Let’s take a hill that is 1 miles long with an elevation change of 1,000 feet (0. 189 miles)....2%. We could therefore use the measured distance on the bike and the error here would only be 2%, even less so for lower grades. ... Some can power over a very steep, short section, and yet fade with a long climb, while others have a very difficult time with a short, steep grade (or maybe t... Make the distance too long and people don’t get the instant feedback they expect....
Categories: long-distance Tags: average-grade, climb, distance, instant, long-climb, miles-long, short-section, the-distance, total, total-elevation, very-difficult
Groves is World Cup speed queen (Ottawa Citizen)
Kristina Groves of Ottawa was a double winner on Saturday — earning gold in the women’s 1,500 metres at the World Cup finals in long track speedskating, and with the victory, claiming the season title at the distance for a third straight winter.
Categories: long-distance Tags: 500-metres, distance, long-track, saturday, season-title, the-distance, the-victory, women, world
It`s time to start.
... was pretty much up and down a relatively long (5miles) and steep climb close to where I live. ... And what a difference! I managed only to time half of the distance since I on my way back got a flat tire, but the first nine miles I managed to do in 35 minutes....
Categories: long-distance Tags: climb-close, distance, first-nine, flat-tire, relatively-long, the-distance, time-half
The Truth & The Stray Tree
"As long as you remember me as a time of day. ... We kept walking, and I was closing in the distance between Joaquin and I. & #160; Then holy shit....
Categories: long-distance Tags: distance, joaquin, kept-walking, the-distance
Camera Workout
The rain stopped long enough to be able to take a short walk around the Botanical gardens at Mount Coot-tha. ... This Fiery Skimmer is a little blurred, but not too bad considering the distance I was away from it, and no tripod....
Categories: long-distance Tags: distance, fiery, little-blurred, mount, rain-stopped, short-walk, the-distance, too-bad
Camera Workout
The rain stopped long enough to be able to take a short walk around the Botanical gardens at Mount Coot-tha. ... This Fiery Skimmer is a little blurred, but not too bad considering the distance I was away from it, and no tripod....
Categories: long-distance Tags: around-the-botanical, botanical, fiery, fiery-skimmer, gardens-at-mount, little-blurred, long-enough, mount, onsidering-the-distance, rain-stopped, short-walk, the-distance, too-bad
Camera Workout
The rain stopped long enough to be able to take a short walk around the Botanical gardens at Mount Coot-tha. ... This Fiery Skimmer is a little blurred, but not too bad considering the distance I was away from it, and no tripod....
Categories: long-distance Tags: around-the-botanical, fiery-skimmer, gardens-at-mount, long-enough, mount, onsidering-the-distance, short-walk, the-distance, too-bad
(118 One Shot) Wrath
Sure I could shoot him in the back on the way up, but I'd been closing the distance the whole chase, and I hadn't just done a barrel roll down a near cliff. ... He picked up the pace as the canyon tightened, but I didn't. As long as he was in my line of sight there was no reason to exhaust myself....
Categories: long-distance Tags: barrel-roll, been-closing, distance, line, pace, the-distance, the-pace
Walking Over
The dogs are approaching from far below us and from the distance something looks odd. ... No longer having to navigate every step our minds relax and our bodies find a rhythm....As we slip and slide leaving long streaming boot paths in the quickly setting snow, I imagine our surroundings in another two months: ... The steep slope we are descending provides a commanding view of the forest below us and in the distance we suddenly hear the dogs yelping, squealing and barking....
Categories: long-distance Tags: bodies, dogs, forest, hear-the-dogs, long-streaming, minds, navigate-every, setting-snow, slide-leaving, suddenly-hear, the-distance
Options Trading Mastery: Spread Prices
Thus, the extrinsic values of the two options cancel themselves out since you are long one call and short the other. ... A general rule of thumb is if the stock price is located evenly between the two strike prices, the vertical spread should be worth roughly half of the value o f the distance between the two strikes....
Categories: long-distance Tags: between-the-two, distance, general-rule, spread-should, the-distance, the-extrinsic, the-vertical, two-strike, vertical