What's your Eddington number ?

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Not sure this works as it doesn't factor into account all the non-Eddington rides that you do and their contribution to extra life.  Also - Tommy Godwin in his record-breaking year would have racked up about 200 days worth of extra life but the effort probably shortened his....  I suppose according to the origianl assertion if you never stopped pedalling you would never pop your clogs - so you'd have the key to eternal life (as long as you never stopped) 

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

My Eddington number for running is now 14

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Have managed to put my logbook into Excel which means that i can now work out in year Eddington numbers.   Each year shows the total distance (miles), the number of rides, the in-year Eddington number, the lifetime Eddington number (this was understated until 2011) as there were some longer rides before 1994 when I didn't have complete records.  I also calculated the median and average distances in each year.  2003 was my first year of BR Audax rides, 2005 my first SR series, and 2007 my first 1000k+ ride (PBP).  2012 was the year when I commuted most and 2013 I had a lot of overseas travel.

Year   Distance          Rides   Eddington (Yr)   Eddington (Life)   Median (Yr)   Average (Yr)
1995   859.8   23      20                  20                   35.0                   37.4
1996   835.1   20      20                  31                   39.1                   41.8
1997   1120.0   38      23                  36                   29.1                   29.5
1998   1300.5   39      27                  40                   33.1                   33.3
1999   1443.9   53      25                  42                   24.7                   27.2
2000   2394.1   74      29                  47                   23.8                   32.4
2001   3347.6   111      33                  51                   23.4                   30.2
2002   3184.4   85      35                  56                   28.6                   37.5
2003   3759.5   82      41                  61                   40.6                   45.8
2004   3580.1   69      39                  63                   48.5                   51.9
2005   4001.6   68      36                  68                   38.2                   58.8
2006   4020.2   65      41                  72                   57.7                   61.8
2007   5608.4   96      45                  75                   36.4                   58.4
2008   6354.1   102      50                  80                   48.1                   62.3
2009   5318.0   77      43                  82                   51.9                   69.1
2010   7477.7   105      53                  93                   53.4                   71.2
2011   7002.1   98      51                100                   53.9                   71.5
2012   7860.1   126      52                101                   41.3                   62.4
2013   5513.1   85      49                103                   59.2                   64.9

[Wowbagger]

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.

I did it today, so my Eddington number still exceeds my age in years by 11. Today's ride (78.01 miles) is Number 46 counting down from my longest ride (147.34 miles - Dun Run etc., 30/6/2012). I have now recorded:-

193 rides in excess of 50 miles
130 rides in excess of 60 miles
70 rides of 70 miles or more
38 rides in excess of 80 miles
25 rides in excess of 90 miles
21 rides in excess of 100 miles
13 rides in excess of 110 miles
9 rides in excess of 120 miles
7 rides in excess of 130 miles
4 rides in excess of 140 miles

I have 5 more rides of 71 miles or more to do to increase my Eddington number to 71.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

I have also been able to achieve that long desired calculation - my Eddington number in furlongs….

It is 457 (that's 457 rides of 57.2 miles or further).  However, I still have a further 105 rides of 62.5 miles or more to reach the magic 500.  At current rate of progress that should be some time in 2016.

[Oaky]

Finally made 50.

It was meant to be last year --- that was the only real cycling target I set myself, but injuries, bad weather and CBA meant I failed in my atempt.  (Had I realised I was only 6 miles short when arriving at the Essex Xmas do, I might have nipped out for an extra loop... or perhaps not....)

Knocked it off today with a 55 miler circumnavigating Chelmsford.

* Oaky scuttles off to check how many rides I would need to get it to 62 in order to set myself a target to fail to achieve this year...

[Dibdib]

Congrats Oaky 

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 

Well mine did shoot up pretty quickly after that and hit 31 in August last year, but it has stayed there ever since. I seem to do a fair few rides of about 50km, which are no no longer contributing to an increase in E. Getting to 34 shouldn't be too difficult, but after that it's looking a bit harder.

Longer rides are looking few and far between in my logs - I only have 16 rides logged over 40 miles, and only 13 logged over 50. Lots of work to do this year then!

[ianrauk]

Reached 101 last weekend.
Need another 6 102+'s to jump up a notch.

[LEE]

72

(but that's based on 72 rides of 100 miles or more so each time I ride 100 miles it will increase all the way up to 100, if I checked in more detail it may be a slightly higher than 72).

Two and a bit RRTYs would get me to 100 fairly quickly.

Since I've done a fair few rides over 100 miles I can see potential for E=103 fairly easily but then there's a big jump to 125 that I can't see me making.

Surely a fair few Audaxers have E=125, 10xRRTY gets you damn close.

[AAO]

I reached E=48 today.
Great ride up to the Teifi Pools - the source of Wales' longest river River Teifi (whole length in Wales that is), that reaches the sea at Cardigan. Highest point reached was 1520 ft with a few hard 20%ers along the way 

May 2nd. As of today E = 49

June 20th. E = 50 

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Reached 101 last weekend.
Need another 6 102+'s to jump up a notch.

As you can see from my stats above I went from 82 to 100 in 2 years and then took 3 years to get from 100 to 105.  Comes from the fact that I've only done 6 90 - 99 mile rides and about 40 100 - 109 miles.  Funny thing round some milestones 

[Deano]

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...

Up to 98! Only 3 more 100 mile+ rides to get it over 100.

I guess the next milestone will be much much harder - only 65 rides of 110 miles or more, only 52 over 125 miles...

[Bobby]

I don't have full training logs so can't count most of my early rides (not that there will be many long ones TBH).  Currently E=65, only 4 more rides to get it to 67 - but then the gaps quickly start to get larger!

I've only recorded 45 over 100miles, so it'll take a long time to get near that! 

I've only been on the RRTY train for 18 months so far, certainly can't imagine still being on it all the way to E=125 

[Wowbagger]

My 79 miles on Friday night/Saturday morning means that there are only 4 more rides required for me to increase my Eddington number to 71.

[Wowbagger]

I now have 3 more rides of 71 miles or more to make that my Eddington number.

Whilst updating my spreadsheet dedicated to such things I noticed that I have 199 rides of 50 miles or more recorded.

I think we need to do something about that in sociable mode. I will put my mind to it - possibly at Mildenhall!

Edit: soddit! I missed it! I hadn't logged my 59-miler on July 20th, the BHF London-Southend ride. So I have a double-century of half-centuries.

Actually, there are certainly quite a few more 50-milers from my previous cycling existence in the 1980s, which of course I never logged at all so it's all pretty contrived.

Edit 2: I have just sorted my recorded rides into date order and I know of at least two, possibly three, 60-milers that are missing. Apart form my only 100-mile ride from the 1980s, for which I have a certificate somewhere and which I have attributed to 1st June 1981, the earliest ride I have recorded is the Hopey New Year of 6/1/2007. I can think of two which were well over 60 miles from 2006 - my first ever FNRttC which was an excellent night out, and my first 100k audax, Up the Uts.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

The Mildenhall 200 took my Metric Eddington number to 150, 150 rides of 150km plus.  Due to milestone-skewing stats I've only 2 rides between 150.0km and 160.9km so will need just another 13 160km plus rides to reach the magic 160. 

Meanwhile the imperial Eddington is starting to make some progress after passing the bottleneck of just over 100 miles.  Another 14 113 mile rides will bump it up from 107 to 113.

The big milestone remains the Eddington in Furlongs - I am just 69 100km rides from reaching the very round sum of 500 (62.5km being almost exactly 500 furlongs).  At this year's rate of progress that might be achieved by Christmas 2015.

[Nethypete]

Surely the milli-light second must be the ultimate goal for every E number chaser. At 299.792 km it roughly equates to a standard Audax distance.....something to aim for?

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Surely the milli-light second must be the ultimate goal for every E number chaser. At 299.792 km it roughly equates to a standard Audax distance.....something to aim for?

Ha ha.  I'm only about 250 short on that count 

[Ivo]

My metric Eddington number is just a shy above the magic number of 200, 201 at the moment. It'll be quite hard to make serious gains now on the metric Eddington Number front.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Due to CET Junior having extra rugby training had 2.5 more hours today and so went out for a long ride than usual.  Result was an unexpected increase in my Eddington numbers to 108 (imperial) and 151 (metric).  When I started this year wasn't expecting to add 4 points to the imperial Eddington number so chuffed.  But have logged 18 imperial centuries this year (looking good to beat previous PB of 21 in a year).  I need 3 more 109+ rides for 109 and 5 more 110+ rides for 110 so those are probably 2015 milestones.

[Deano]

Mine's 100 as of yesterday

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Mine's 100 as of yesterday

Chapeau.  A ton of tons.  Only if you are like me it gets hard to improve the number from then on due to the cluster of rides just above 100 miles.  I've done 49 century rides between Eddington 100 and Eddington 108.

[clarion]

Good one, Deano!

[Ivo]

Mine's 100 as of yesterday

Chapeau.  A ton of tons.  Only if you are like me it gets hard to improve the number from then on due to the cluster of rides just above 100 miles.  I've done 49 century rides between Eddington 100 and Eddington 108.

The same problem will occur when you reach the metric 200 mark.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Mine's 100 as of yesterday

Chapeau.  A ton of tons.  Only if you are like me it gets hard to improve the number from then on due to the cluster of rides just above 100 miles.  I've done 49 century rides between Eddington 100 and Eddington 108.

The same problem will occur when you reach the metric 200 mark.

At current rate of progress that is about 15 years away  .  Imperial 125 is probably only 4 years away and, if achieved will be while the metric mark is stuck in the low 160s.  Fortunately for my Metric Eddington progress (probably in my retirement) I don't actually do a high proportion of my overall audax rides as bare 200s,