Author Topic: What's your Eddington number ? (Read 105086 times)

Lightkeeper · « **Reply #125 on:** 24 June, 2013, 09:18:39 am »

Back from a long weekend (in every sense: three days, including the longest, and >250 km each day), I checked my Eddington number again: it's exactly 100, which is quite satisfying.

If all goes according to plan, and counting LEL days separately, it'll be 102 by the end of the year - twice my age. And then my age will increment...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #126 on:** 08 July, 2013, 08:48:34 am »

After Saturday's Tan HIll ride (102 miles) I'm still two rides short of getting my E number up to 70, 40 rides short of getting it to 80, 76 rides short of getting it to 90 and 80 rides short of 100.

Oaky · « **Reply #127 on:** 10 July, 2013, 03:13:50 pm »

I'm currently at 46 and my aim for this year is to get mine up to 50 - I'm 7 rides away at the moment. It'll take more than 20 rides to get to 56 though.

Dibdib · « **Reply #128 on:** 10 July, 2013, 03:43:12 pm »

Mine, being so low, has shot up (relatively) quickly - from 2 at the start of 2012 when I started logging my mileage, plateauing at 20 over the winter and is now up to 28.

Hopefully there'll be some more quick wins over the next few months, as more of my weekend rides are in the 50-100mi range. My first goal is to get it higher than my age (I'll be 30 next year and then keep it there

Ningishzidda · « **Reply #129 on:** 11 July, 2013, 12:44:22 pm »

As soon as your E number is in excess of your age, sit back, relax and laugh at everyone who is still struggling.

The way to do this is to start riding Imperial Centuries when you are still at school, and continue to ride three or four per year until demise onsets.
Before AUK was around, the CTC was a good source of encouragement.

Starting this venture in your twenties will require a clutch of six or eight century rides per year until you have reached the relaxation point.

Greenbank · « **Reply #130 on:** 11 July, 2013, 12:47:51 pm »

10 years and 4 months of an RRTY will put your Eddington number at 124.

Ningishzidda · « **Reply #131 on:** 11 July, 2013, 12:53:49 pm »

16 years 8 months with a generous 300 RRtY will get you a cool 200.

Greenbank · « **Reply #132 on:** 11 July, 2013, 12:57:19 pm »

Quote from: Ningishzidda on 11 July, 2013, 12:53:49 pm

16 years 8 months with a generous 300 RRtY will get you a cool 200.

Only if you're fast enough to complete all of your 300s by midnight.

CrazyEnglishTriathlete · « **Reply #133 on:** 11 July, 2013, 07:53:57 pm »

Quote from: Ningishzidda on 11 July, 2013, 12:44:22 pm

As soon as your E number is in excess of your age, sit back, relax and laugh at everyone who is still struggling.

Sir Arthur would be happy - he reached 84 and popped his clogs at 61, thereby retiring with an E number greater than his age.

simonp · « **Reply #134 on:** 12 July, 2013, 12:11:53 am »

My Eddington number is already more than 2.5x my age. When should I stop? I doubt I will live long enough to overtake it even if I stop now.

Ningishzidda · « **Reply #135 on:** 13 July, 2013, 04:23:03 pm »

Quote from: Greenbank on 11 July, 2013, 12:57:19 pm

Quote from: Ningishzidda on 11 July, 2013, 12:53:49 pm
16 years 8 months with a generous 300 RRtY will get you a cool 200.

Only if you're fast enough to complete all of your 300s by midnight.

Get out of bed earlier.

AAO · « **Reply #136 on:** 24 July, 2013, 09:34:14 pm »

Since I last posted I have had another small operation to finish my nose reconstruction - just 10 days off the bike this time - and have, after a further 5 rides, managed to get my E Number up to 47.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #137 on:** 26 July, 2013, 12:12:17 pm »

My Eddington number currently exceeds my age by 11. I suppose my ambition is for my age eventually to exceed my Eddington number.

clarion · « **Reply #138 on:** 26 July, 2013, 12:13:50 pm »

My Eddington Number hasn't shifted for a while, and lags behind my age a bit.

tonyh · « **Reply #139 on:** 13 October, 2013, 07:37:11 pm »

Quote from: tonyh on 20 May, 2013, 01:20:15 pm

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

I gave in and displaced important jobs, to discover that:

My E Number (miles) is 139. Big contribution from DIY 200s, which usually have a lot of extra distance (mine do, anyway).
One more 140 mile ride will get it to 140.
Eleven more rides of 141 or more to reach 141.
but 68 more of 150 or more to reach 150.

Edit: I acknowledge the advantage of having had 71 years to do it in!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #140 on:** 14 October, 2013, 06:49:06 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 26 July, 2013, 12:12:17 pm

My Eddington number currently exceeds my age by 11. I suppose my ambition is for my age eventually to exceed my Eddington number.

Actually, it didn't. On that date, one month after my birthday, it exceeded my age by 10.

I quite like my Eddington number being 69. It's nice position to be in.

I need two more rides to bump it up to 70. I think I will plan one of those for half-term.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #141 on:** 16 November, 2013, 11:14:34 pm »

Today's total was just over 71 miles. One more ride to get to an Eddington number of 70.

Shrimp_Stu · « **Reply #142 on:** 13 December, 2013, 04:49:03 pm »

As a new convert to Eddington (as in today), mine is 43, from a total of 15,200 miles since I started logging rides (2009).
Six more rides and I can increase it to 46......I can see this taking control of me now!!!

Oscar's dad · « **Reply #143 on:** 13 December, 2013, 05:50:45 pm »

Oaky keeps trying to explain this to me. For a while I thought they were called Erdington numbers and I wondered whether they had anything to do with a district of Birmingham. I am dimly aware of Erdington as my cousin Big Rachel lives there. Actually, I'm not sure she does any more, I think she lives in Great Barr now.

Anyhow, Oaky is wasting his time (although you have to admire his tenacity) as I am (a) not remotely interested in E numbers and (b) even I was I'm too thick to understand.

Pedal Castro · « **Reply #144 on:** 13 December, 2013, 06:33:37 pm »

An additional two Eddington rides last week puts me at E=59. Another three needed for E=60, which I should manage over the Xmas hols.

A target for next year is to get to E=70 which will require another 38 rides of 70 miles+.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #145 on:** 14 December, 2013, 10:17:12 am »

I have one more ride still to do to be sure of reaching an Eddington number of 70. I think it is highly probable that I have some unrecorded rides in excess of 70 miles from the 1980s but of course they don't count.

simonp · « **Reply #146 on:** 14 December, 2013, 01:15:57 pm »

Hmm. Not going to recalculate from scratch but since last time 200 + 300 + 400 + 600 + 1400 takes me to around 115 I think.

mikek · « **Reply #147 on:** 25 December, 2013, 03:23:47 pm »

Just processed my logs from 2006 to date and calculated my E number as 155.

You can tell it's Christmas day.

Ningishzidda · « **Reply #148 on:** 28 December, 2013, 09:36:52 am »

There was a bit of 'rubbish' in the news recently that purported riding a bicycle for one hour extends life by one hour.

How do I convert my E number into months of extra life? And IS it useful

Ningishzidda · « **Reply #149 on:** 28 December, 2013, 09:46:39 am »

Its easy.

( ( E^2 ) / S ) / 24 = Days extra life, where S is average mph.

When S is 12 and E is 60, Days extra life is 12.5.

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