There's one person noticeably absent from this thread - Teethgrinder himself. Is he keen enough on it to give up his job and every other aspect of his life for a year?
Sorry. I went out on my bike.
There isn't much else to my life that can't wait a year. Just padding really. No wife or kids.
I got the book on Friday, so I'll have a read of that to see if it tells me what he did.
I had a flick through and saw photos of him being handed up bottles as you would in a 24hr TT. Sid Ferris (former LE-JOG record holder) was one of them. It looks as if he was pretty well supported.
I dont know how many of the 365 days of the year TG was actually riding. Cant have been very much more than 100 given he has a day job!
Aukweb says Teethgrinder did 98 rides in 2007. A lot of those are 600s and 800s, plus two 12s, a 14 and a 15, ie. multi-day events.
405 points at 15kph is 112 days. As I said, not very much more than 100 days.
Yes, 98 rides, average distance of about 400k. Quite often they were over distance too.
I rode almost every weekend, so that would be 100 days. Plus I used holiday from work and Bank Holidays. Then I did Tuesday nights for the last 2 months. I failed a 1500k ride after riding 900km of it too, so had a 4 day break because the 1500k would have bought me to a 200k event, but I packed at home, having gone to bed and slept almost solid for 36 hours. You can probably add another 30 days to the 100. The Tuesday night rides muddy the water a bit. It's hard to say exactly how many days I rode. Some days it wasn't worth me riding as far as points chasing was concerned. There were a few no ride days, such as the day before PBP and also the day of PBP (which started at night)
I have the stack of cards, but CBA to work out how many days. I rode about 28,500 miles in the 12 months including commuting, shopping and everything else, so about 6500 short of halfway while having to work 5 days a week, so probably on pace.
70,065 divided by 365 gives 192mpd where I probably did 207mpd (12 month total minus 1500 for commuting etc divded by 130)
It's only a guess though. It'd be too open to debate about how many days I rode and how many days I could have ridden and how much time I had available. It's not the same. For AUK you have to ride a minimum of 200k and enter the ride in advance. For mileating I can nip to the shops and bag an extra mile or two.