Up and down

No Wednesday morning ride, but a very up and down Wednesday evening ride instead.
25 miles and the first 3 quarters either up or down - nothing inbetween.
Route was: Cocking Lane to Addingham Moorside, down to Silsden, then Bradley Road (which doesn't go to Bradley but is a good climb), left at the top onto Heights Lane and then descend to Bradley. Climb out of Bradley over to Farnhill, then climb again back over to Silsden. Then the main road to Addingham - this was to see how a longish 7% climb feels like. It's about 1.5 miles from the bottom to the turn-off, then another mile mostly uphill over Silsden Moor, so I turned left at the top and went over Silsden Moor to Draughton. Down through the village, short section on A59 then Halton East, Bolton Abbey and big ring back to Ilkley the usual way.
A good route for training I think.
Anyway the point was to feel the 7% drag. Went up on 39-21 and 23, fairly high cadence, averaging about 9-9.5 mph. Won't go this fast on the Tourmalet, but on tonights short climb my heart rate didn't go out of control. Pushed fairly hard the rest of the way, and very hard on the final leg. Then went round to Gizzajob's house to help him move a washing machine. Turned out it was down narrow steep stairs to his cellar, so a bit of an upper body and back workout too.