Mount Washington - Hill Climb 2008

[cannondale1950]

ALANRLEAKE. What you say may be true of walkers, but perhaps not runners. It's true that a cyclist has to "carry the bike" up the hill. But the cyclist has to contend with much less friction due to using round wheels and hard tires as opposed to the complex biomechanical interaction of foot to ground. Anecdotally, I'm not a great racer, but I can beat very good runners doing hill repeats on the same course, with much less perceived effort

[ALANRLEAKE]

While I have never done this event, when it comes to walking uphill vs. pleasure bikeing uphill, the latter is more exhausting because a cyclist is pushing the bike uphill. With walkers, they do not have to contend with a bike.