Plan and Prepare

• Make use of this comprehensive guide to help you plan your Everesting challenge.
• Use our Everesting Calculator to determine the number of reps you require for your chosen climb.

Complete the Everesting Challenge

• Complete on an approved Platform:
  – Zwift
  – MyWhoosh
  – Rouvy
  – FulGaz
• It must be uploaded to Strava prior to submitting it to us

Submit for approval

• You must submit the Strava activity from your Everesting to us for approval. Submit here.

The rules are simple:  Pick any hill, on an approved virtual platform and complete repeats of it in a single activity until you climb your chosen Everesting Challenge height.

For a detailed description of the vEveresting rules please read the rules pages.

General Considerations

• Make sure you thoroughly understand the rules of what is considered an acceptable climb. For a detailed description of the vEveresting rules please read the rules pages.
• Choose a climb that suits your strengths as a cyclist. Too shallow a gradient and you will be riding a lot of additional distance leading to an extra long day in the saddle. Pick too steep of a climb and your legs will be screaming at you later in the challenge. Choose something you can sustain all day.
• Calculations: A great resource to help calculate your number of laps, work out approximate times, and any elevation gain on the descent is The Everesting Calculator. It’s not gospel, but it’s a pretty handy tool.
• Test out a bunch of potential options, and where possible you should aim to ride the climb beforehand.

Tips to Choosing an appropriate Segment

• Anything that has a vertical gain can be used to complete a vEveresting.
• Rides must only focus on one hill or mountain per ride (e.g. you can’t base yourself in one location and ride multiple hills).
• Rides cannot be loops. The descent must be via the same road.
• Rides must be full ascents of your chosen climb each time. You can’t commit to a combination of full and half laps.
• Once you hit your climbing target you can abandon that repeat.
• You can start and finish the ride anywhere on the hill (bottom, middle, or top)
• No need to stay on the trainer on descents. Feel free to use this time to top up food, take a change of clothes, have a stretch etc. 

A great resource to help calculate your laps, work out approximate times, and any elevation gain on the descent is The Everesting Calculator. It’s not gospel, but it’s a pretty handy tool.

Bear in mind you need to subtract any metres gained off course. ie any elevation gained riding to the start of the climb.

In contrast to an Everesting in the real world, the elevation gain shown shown on Zwift, MyWoosh ,FulGaz, Rouvy virtual platform can be considered accurate. So when you see 8,848m pop up on screen you can pull the pin (however it is always good to do a few metres of elevation gain just to be sure).

The purest and most accurate method of climbing 8,848m will always be to divide 8,848m by the amount of elevation on your carefully selected segment to give you the laps required.

(e.g. a segment of 100m gain: 8,848 ÷ 100m = 88.48 reps required)

In the same way that it is possible to tweak your results in a race on Zwift, MyWoosh, FulGaz, Rouvy virtual platform by changing weight or not calibrating a trainer, it is also possible to similarly make things easier for a vEveresting. You could adjust the trainer difficulty, underreport your weight, or go against our recommendation for the general type of trainer to use on a given hill. In the same way you could take a nap, hold onto a car, or use an eBike on an outdoor Everesting, and who would ever know? 

Well – the answer to that is yourself.

The Everesting concept was built on finding something difficult, and making it harder.

It’s about tenacity, and pushing yourself beyond what you thought was possible. That’s what this crew is all about. It’s not about shortcuts, it’s about death by 1,000 cuts.

Trainer difficulty needs to be at 100%, direct drive only for the steep hills on Zwift, MyWoosh ,FulGaz, Rouvy no ERG mode. These are all in place to make things hard.

If in doubt, don’t look to someone else who you think got off easier – think what you can do to to make your own harder.