What's your Eddington number ?

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Nudged up to 117 with the Brimstone

[Ivo]

The Maastricht 400 of last weekend pushed my imperial Eddington to 150.

[Somnolent]

Hungerford Hurrah takes me to the imperial century.

[Whitedown Man]

^

Has anyone got a good (or even rough) estimate of how many folks there are with an Eddington of 100 or above?

Are centurions part of a tiny club, or two-a-penny?

And if 100 doesn't mark the boundary between "more common than you might think" and "actually quite rare", what does? 125? 150?

[LittleWheelsandBig]

A lot of long-term Audaxers will have Eddington numbers around 125. Getting much above that is pretty rare.

[Ivo]

A lot of long-term Audaxers will have Eddington numbers around 125. Getting much above that is pretty rare.

But still quite reasonably available among long term Audaxers. An Eddington of 200 puts you way ahead of the crowd.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Not too many folk have ridden 200 days of 300+km brevets.

[Ivo]

Not too many folk have ridden 200 days of 300+km brevets.

Indeed, a shedload of 300k audaxes isn't even enough for an Eddington of 200.
An Eddington of 150 is quite well possible for audaxers who don't have a car so tend to ride to their events, either from home or from another sleeping spot.

[ianrauk]

New Eddington number reached. 113.

[Wowbagger]

The Dun Run on Sat/Sun took my Eddington number to 71. My 71st ride was 71.09 miles.

Such is the paucity of rides in the next chunk, it will take me only 9 >75 mile rides to push my E number to 75.

Something seems to have gone wrong with my recording. I have just put this year's Dun Run in and the spreadsheet reckons that this year's ride pushes me to 71 miles. Shome mishtake, shurely...

Edit: yes, I did make a mistake. I didn't do the sort properly on the spreadsheet and my 72nd ride is indeed 71.09 miles.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

My running Eddington number has nudged its way to 19.

[Greenbank]

My running Eddington number has nudged its way to 19.

Should be able to edge mine up to 15 with this winter's marathon training (assuming my foot gets better and I can actually start running again).

(The long runs in my training plan are 14, 15, 15, 18 and 22 miles but if I ever get my weight down and get back to proper fitness I intend to keep it going after the marathon rather than falling back to apathy and doing nothing long for 8 months before building up again...)

Having recently signed up to VV and uploaded the history I have I can see my cycling EN is 53 (miles) or 60 (km). (I have 36 rides of 124 miles or more, so a long way to go in terms of the 'long standing Audaxer' standard although I personally count multi-day rides as a single ride...)

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Finally got to E = 119.  It should move a bit faster now as there aren’t many rides logged in the 190 - 200km range

[Whitedown Man]

Chapeau 

I’m on 118 with fairly small increments up to 130, but then the cliff-face gets seriously steep.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

The Heart of England brought the Eddington number up to 120.

E120 is Carmine, or Cochineal, the red dye made from crushed insect bodies.

[thing1]

125! On track for 126 this year (3 more rides needed, which are already in the calendar)

Also: everyone nominate yacf as your club for the the Eddington Number club challenge, here: https://swinny.net/Strava/-4968-The-Eddington-Leaderboard-for-Clubs


We should be able to own that.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Only if you are on Strava...  I suppose I could add all of my rides manually but that would (a) be anal even for me and (b) be regarded as totally suspicious and fraudulent by everyone who hadn't actually ridden all the miles.

[Pingu]

Finally made the century 

[Whitedown Man]

Made it to the magical 125 

Boy does it get harder from here though - 37 to 130, 82 to 140 and 105 to 150.  I can just about see myself getting to 130 within a couple of years, but I suspect my final Eddington will be in the low 130s.

[quixoticgeek]

Does anyone else calculate their Eddington in Metric?

I've only got records of my rides from last Autumn, so my number is low, but growing steadily.

J

[Ivo]

Does anyone else calculate their Eddington in Metric?

I've only got records of my rides from last Autumn, so my number is low, but growing steadily.

J

I mainly calculate in metric,also my Eddington.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Does anyone else calculate their Eddington in Metric?

I've only got records of my rides from last Autumn, so my number is low, but growing steadily.

J

Imperial, metric, and furlongs.

[Ivo]

Does anyone else calculate their Eddington in Metric?

I've only got records of my rides from last Autumn, so my number is low, but growing steadily.

J

Imperial, metric, and furlongs.

Anyone calculating it in Swedish Miles?

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Does anyone else calculate their Eddington in Metric?

I've only got records of my rides from last Autumn, so my number is low, but growing steadily.

J

I mainly calculate in metric,also my Eddington.

Imperial, metric, and furlongs (handily there are 8 furlongs to a kilometre).  But any reasonable unit of measure will do, as I have all my long rides in an excel spreadsheet it was a matter of a minute to discover that my Eddington number is 109 (Nautical Miles) and 57 (English Leagues) or even 35 Norweigan mils.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

E121 in miles, which is also Citrus Red 2, which can be used in the USA to color the skin of oranges, although it is suspected to be a carcinogen.  So take care when using orange zest for your chocolate and orange cake that you don't use American oranges.