Week 11:
Those who worry about sleep issues take note this week, if anything is going to show up surely this (week 12) will be the week. Last week Steve pushed every irregular sleep boundary. He posted 13 rides which means he was active at midnight 6 out of 7 days. From lunchtime on Thusday he was active for 36.5 hours straight of which he was moving for 30.75 hours. He did allow himself rest of 14 hours before and 12 hours after that marathon. The result is his second highest total for the year, 2566.9 miles or 227.86 mpd average. Week 1 was highest naturally.
His routes were interesting, for a change he did keep to the flatlands. 8813 mtrs climbed is his lowest weekly total by 500mtrs and only his second week under 10,000. Steve didn't use this to gain speed, his average for the week was 26.15 but there's no automatic correlation as Steve consciously controls his speed. We do have enough data though to see if there is an unconscious relationship between speed and meters climbed.
This is a spread of his rides so far, speed in kmh on the horizontal and meters climbed vertical:
Lopsided in the expected direction? Add a trend line:
Yep, a clear trend to flatter routes = more speed. That outlier looks like it is skewing things though, lets remove that:
The outlier (3rd April, his east coast route to Ferrybridge with a reasonable tailwind) was skewing the result but the trend is certainly there.
Does anyone know if the kJ work done figure on Strava comes from his power meter or a guesstimate from the route?
1270.2 ahead of the Godwin line.
1056.9 ahead of the Searvogel line.
1157.5 behind the Coker line.
