Author Topic: What's your Eddington number ? (Read 104617 times)

Wowbagger · « **Reply #100 on:** 30 January, 2013, 05:47:44 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 30 January, 2013, 05:46:53 pm

Does anyone know what Eddington's Eddington Number was?

84

Lordy · « **Reply #101 on:** 30 January, 2013, 05:52:25 pm »

Are people forgetting this is just harmless fun. Being at 100 exact, I'd hope that the next significant milestone for me is the 126 (200k) marker.

delthebike · « **Reply #102 on:** 30 January, 2013, 05:56:13 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 30 January, 2013, 05:46:53 pm

Does anyone know what Eddington's Eddington Number was?

What about Tommy Godwin's E#? It must be around the 150 - 180 area!

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #103 on:** 01 February, 2013, 12:41:57 pm »

Given that he averaged 200mpd for 500 days I would assume something like 220. Unless you consider it to be all one ride and therefore it would be a lot smaller

Wowbagger · « **Reply #104 on:** 03 February, 2013, 07:32:43 am »

I understood the Eddington Number to be based on miles per day. I don't know if Eddington did overnight rides and how he counted them, but I count them as a single ride within a 24 hour period not punctuated by going to bed.

Deano · « **Reply #105 on:** 16 February, 2013, 10:18:10 pm »

I worked this out a while ago (and still have the spreadsheet). Currently it's 91, but I need another 25 or so rides of 100 miles to get it up to 100. I have done a lot of rides in the 90s without bothering to do the extra turn around town to get over 100.

Like CET, I've not worked out separate days on longer rides, as that would involve going through brevet cards and guessing, which hardly seems to fit with Eddington's concept. For example, I'm not counting rides before 2005, which is when I started to keep records.

It may not meet with the idea of a day's riding, but it is accurate, and consistent, and a bit of fun. Maybe I should only ride 300 km and above from now on...

Ashaman42 · « **Reply #106 on:** 17 February, 2013, 09:32:28 am »

Well my stats are a bit out due to Audax days going in as three rides, the ride to the start, the Audax proper and then the ride home.

I guess I can either change how I log things now or given that I can export a csv file I wonder is there's a way to automate totting up all rides starting on a day into one total?

ETA: Except, I guess, commute days as that seems like a bit of a big gap between them to count as one ride

AAO · « **Reply #107 on:** 20 May, 2013, 12:15:22 am »

My Eddington Number went up to 46 today.

Dibdib · « **Reply #108 on:** 20 May, 2013, 08:34:38 am »

Quote from: Ashaman42 on 17 February, 2013, 09:32:28 am

I guess I can either change how I log things now or given that I can export a csv file I wonder is there's a way to automate totting up all rides starting on a day into one total?

D'oh. Didn't see this before. In Excel, what you want is a PivotTable with the dates down the left hand side and a sum of the distances in the data field.

If anyone needs some Excel-fu, feel free to PM.

Worked out mine last night, which is up to a (good for me) 25. Onwards and upwards!

LEE · « **Reply #109 on:** 20 May, 2013, 08:49:46 am »

I've lost track of my E number but I've done 70 rides of 100 miles or more so it's at least 70.

I'd like to get it to 100 but 100 miles is a long way. I may get back into RRTY.

mcshroom · « **Reply #110 on:** 20 May, 2013, 10:13:41 am »

I just checked mine and it's 56 at present. Up from 48 in September which I'm quite happy with.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #111 on:** 20 May, 2013, 12:19:02 pm »

I have three >80 mile days to my credit in the past month or so, which has ensured that my Eddington Number is demonstrably not less than 69. I have four more rides to do over 70 miles to bring it up to that number.

Gus · « **Reply #112 on:** 20 May, 2013, 12:32:30 pm »

I can't really give an exact number, but given the miles I've done so far this year
I must be around 75 now, and with my current training for LEL it will rise.

tonyh · « **Reply #113 on:** 20 May, 2013, 01:20:15 pm »

(I'm still trying to stave off the temptation to work mine out!)

simonp · « **Reply #114 on:** 20 May, 2013, 01:26:06 pm »

I’ve increased mine this year by around 5, having done 200k x 3, 300k x 1, 600k x 1. So probably pushing 110. Soon it will reach 125, and it will get stuck there for ages.

L CC · « **Reply #115 on:** 20 May, 2013, 02:21:27 pm »

104.

Since records began in 2009.

I suspect I'll get to 127 this year, and, like simonp, (and most randonneurs) it will then stay there for, well, ever. I can't imagine doing another 163 300k+ rides in my lifetime.

simonp · « **Reply #116 on:** 20 May, 2013, 02:39:36 pm »

I probably have around 50 days significantly over 200k. I’ve done LEL, which equates to around 5. PBP x 2 another 6. 11x600k another 22. I’ve done around 5 400s, so another 5, say. At least 10x300k, so that gets to around 48, two 600s which I DNF’d, another 2. Plus one 144 mile day before I’d done my first 300k, and add a few 200s which I rode to/from, and we’re looking at pushing 55. So I only need another 75 or so to push the number significantly above 125. Ok, so actually it’s not very likely.

Chris S · « **Reply #117 on:** 20 May, 2013, 03:03:09 pm »

Mine seems to have increased from 126 to 130 since I last checked.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #118 on:** 29 May, 2013, 05:06:01 pm »

Mine is stuck on 102, as I've 5 rides at this distance, still have 3 103+ mile rides to make it go up. So am working on the metric one which is easier to do as its got into that space between 128km (80 miles) and 161km (100 miles) where, unsurprisingly, I don't have many completed rides. It went up to 137 on Monday courtesy of a spectacularly hilly romp around the South Downs and the greensand hills north of Midhurst and Petworth.

On a tangent, looking at other possible units of measure - a furlong is almost exactly 500 kilometres. I've kept a log of "long" rides - anything over 100km, and, at current rate of progress should have a lifetime Eddington number of 500 in furlongs by the end of 2016.

I still haven't split up my multi-day events - as I've no idea exactly what distance I did on each day of most of them.

mattc · « **Reply #119 on:** 29 May, 2013, 07:52:24 pm »

Has anyone looked at climbing figures?
(in the spirit of Strava and Brailsford)

At a rough guess, Nx100ft might work best.

_{p.s. CET: I don't think a furlong is even close to 500 kilometres!}

mcshroom · « **Reply #120 on:** 29 May, 2013, 09:17:28 pm »

There's 8 furlongs in a mile, and a mile is about 1600m, so a furlong must be about 200m.

Deano · « **Reply #121 on:** 30 May, 2013, 08:23:36 am »

So 500 furlongs is about 100 km, and CET has ridden over 100 km 500 times. What's complicated about that?

I think I'll stick with miles.

Ningishzidda · « **Reply #122 on:** 31 May, 2013, 08:51:36 am »

My youngest son is by no means a cyclist.

We went to a drag race meeting at Avon Park Raceway and I happened to have one of my bikes in the back of the car.

After the motor racing had finished and the race meeting organisers had packed up their timing equipment, we got my bike out of the car and had a ride up and down the drag strip.

My son rode one 1/4 mile and was knackered. He rode no more.

HOW is an Eddington number of 0.25 achieved?
HOW can a person ride 1/4 of a bike ride?

Successfully debunked.

mattc · « **Reply #123 on:** 31 May, 2013, 10:03:08 am »

Quote from: Ningishzidda on 31 May, 2013, 08:51:36 am

My youngest son is by no means a cyclist.

Evidently.

clarion · « **Reply #124 on:** 31 May, 2013, 10:04:32 am »

Since it works on integers, N jr has an Eddington Number of zero.

Undebunked.

Author Topic: What's your Eddington number ? (Read 104617 times)

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