On Saturday 7th 2018, Team Zwift Madness and a couple of others are attempting to climb the height of Mt. Everest (8,848m or more! ) in a continuous virtual cycling relay on Zwift (www.zwift.com) for the Society for the Relief of Disabled Children. Please give generously!.

What’s Everesting? The concept of Everesting is simple: Pick any hill, anywhere in the world and bicycle repeats of it in a single activity until you climb 8,848m – the equivalent height of Mt Everest. A virtual Everesting is the same thing but the bicycle is placed on a stationary trainer where the resistance of the bike increases/decreases to simulate the climb/descent of a hill. This stationary bike is then linked up to an App which displays on the TV in front of you and provides you a virtual cycle ride and therefore gives you a simulated ‘road ride’ experience.    

So how’s this going to work? We are going to attempt to complete this virtual Everesting in 20 hours on 7th July in a continuous relay. We will do this alongside other teams (please visit their pages and donate as well – see links below) to have some company and friendly competition. To make it more fun, we will do this in the Virtual Cycling world of ZWIFT which allows all teams to ride at the same time on screen, much like multiple players in an arcade car game! The more team members, the less the distance/time each person needs to ride. We will ride for the full 20 hours regardless of how well we do to see just what elevation we can achieve. To reiterate, an Everesting is not just riding 8.8km vertically! As an example, to achieve 8848m of elevation on the road, it would involve cycling up and down Tai Mo Shan 10 times! This means that the team will need to ride well over 200kms in the day.    

Everesting Explained. It does not matter how long the ride takes, but it must be ridden in one attempt (i.e. no sleeping in between). Breaks for meals etc. are fine. You can break for as long or as little as you like. Bear in mind break times add up quickly, and can add significantly to your elapsed time.

Single Climb. Rides can be of any length, on any hill or mountain within the Zwift framework. Essentially anything that has a vertical gain can be used to complete an vEveresting. Rides must only focus on one hill or mountain per ride.  You cannot ride different routes on the same mountain. If there are 4 routes, that means there are 4 possible ‘vEverestings’ (think of it like the North and South face of Everest). – Rides cannot be loops. The descent must be via the same road. Rides must be full ascents each time. You can’t commit to a combination of full and half laps within the one vEveresting attempt.  

Visit https://everesting.cc/ for the official rules and more incredible stories.

Location: Crossfit Asphodel generously lets us use their facility for the whole day.  They are an awesome team of expert coaches actually the only official Reebok affiliated gym in town so check out their fantastic training facilities in Kennedy Town. http://crossfitasphodel.com/

Team Zwift Madness
Mike Fiechtner, Pete Hanna, Yves Klenk, Jeffrey Wei, Mary Ho, Mira Cristanto, Vincent McIllduff, Ross MacMillan

Team Markets Misfits https://simplygiving.com/virtual-everesting-to-raise-funds-for-the-soc

Team Awesome Finance Team https://simplygiving.com/everesting-to-raise-funds-for-disabled-childr