One climb. 440 attempts across 11 seasons. This is what showing up looks like, in data.
Each dot is one ride up the hill. The line traces the fastest time each year — fitness rising into a 2022 peak, then the long plateau of simply keeping at it.
Faster is lower. Hover any point for the date and time.
Years stacked as rows, the calendar running left to right. Colour is speed — darker is faster. Read down a month to see the same weeks lit up year after year.
The wall of colour under May–August is the climbing season; the winter gaps are ice and rest.
The hill gets ridden all year, but the legs are quickest in the warm months. Bars count the efforts; the marker is the median time for that month.
Most efforts cluster in a tight band; the rare fast ones on the left are the days everything aligned.
Every effort placed by heart rate against speed. The fittest era (2020–2022) sits to the lower-right — going faster without the heart working harder.
Only efforts with a recorded heart rate are shown.
Best-time-ever, stepping down each time it was beaten. Nine years of chipping, then the 2022 barrier that still stands.
The numbers with the story behind them. (Edit any line in the DIARY object at the bottom of the file.)
| Date | Time | Speed | HR | Power | VAM |
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