France · D559
Col de la Gineste time calculatorfrom Marseille
4.8 km from Marseille at 4.9 %, 236 m up. Put in your weight and the watts you can hold for your time to the top, or a goal time for the watts it takes.
The watts you can hold the whole way, as your power meter reads them: about your FTP for an hour's climb, nearer 85 % of it for two hours. Weigh the bike with its bottles.
Your time to the top
On your smart trainer, with Grimpa's pacer bot beside you at that pace. Free.
Times at a glance
A 70 kg rider on a 8 kg bike, at a steady pace from Marseille to the top.
| W/kg | Power | Time | km/h |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 140 W | 25:32 | 11.3 |
| 2.5 | 175 W | 20:56 | 13.8 |
| 3.0 | 210 W | 17:55 | 16.1 |
| 3.5 | 245 W | 15:46 | 18.3 |
| 4.0 | 280 W | 14:10 | 20.3 |
| 4.5 | 315 W | 12:56 | 22.3 |
| 5.0 | 350 W | 11:58 | 24.1 |
| 6.0 | 420 W | 10:30 | 27.4 |
How it's worked out
On the road's own profile, stretch by stretch: the speed your watts hold on each gradient against gravity, the tyres and the air, which thins as the road climbs. A road bike on the hoods, good tarmac, no wind, and 2.5 % of your watts lost in the chain. Wind, heat and a start too fast all change the real thing: this is the time of a steady, even climb.
Try your pace indoors first
Grimpa draws the real road in pixel art, and your smart trainer feels every gradient. Set the pacer bot to your W/kg and see whether you can hold it to the top before you go.
Col de la Gineste: the profile, kilometre by kilometre