What's your Eddington number ?

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

E = 126 - after a long while stuck at 125.  E126 or Ponceau 6R is a red food dye.
Metric Eddington has crept up to 177.  E177 isn't a food ingredient but I've missed E175 which is gold, yes gold has an E number
And my favourite - 535 rides of 535 furlongs (1/8th of a mile) gives me E = 535f, E535 is Sodium Ferrocyanide, which despite its terrifying name and (yes it can) release cyanide under the right conditions, is approved for use as an anti-caking agent in salt and salt-substitutes - so have a look if you are on a low-salt diet - because it's not used in concentrations likely to cause harm.

[quixoticgeek]

E = 126 - after a long while stuck at 125.  E126 or Ponceau 6R is a red food dye.
Metric Eddington has crept up to 177.  E177 isn't a food ingredient but I've missed E175 which is gold, yes gold has an E number
And my favourite - 535 rides of 535 furlongs (1/8th of a mile) gives me E = 535f, E535 is Sodium Ferrocyanide, which despite its terrifying name and (yes it can) release cyanide under the right conditions, is approved for use as an anti-caking agent in salt and salt-substitutes - so have a look if you are on a low-salt diet - because it's not used in concentrations likely to cause harm.

My metric Eddington has crept up to 94. Imperial is at 72. I'm wondering if there's going to be a cross over point where both of them are the same...

I'm fully expecting mine to max out at 125 (imperial) and 200 (metric). 84 more 200k audaxes to go for the imperial.

J

[psyclist]

I'm fully expecting mine to max out at 125 (imperial) and 200 (metric).

I thought that until I reached 125 miles, and then found that aiming for 210km on each Audax ride was fine. I’ve now upped the target to 215km, but I’m not as strict aiming for it with each ride. I’m currently edging towards 131 miles.

[L CC]

I've hardly done any audax in the last 5 years (compared to what I'd done in the previous 5, anyway) and am still at 128. 21 more for 130. At my current rate that's about 5 years 

[Ivo]

I'm fully expecting mine to max out at 125 (imperial) and 200 (metric).

I thought that until I reached 125 miles, and then found that aiming for 210km on each Audax ride was fine. I’ve now upped the target to 215km, but I’m not as strict aiming for it with each ride. I’m currently edging towards 131 miles.

If you ride to local events or ride to events from the nearest railwaystation you'll always end up around 210km or more. In my own list for the Eddington (so including my pre-Strava rides) the high density of rides extends to deep in the 240km. My most recent audax ride was 248km in total (hotel 15km from the start and the ride being 18km overdistance)

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

E = 127 now, and in other measurements has crept up to E=113kts (nautical miles), 177 metric and 537 furlongs. 

[John Stonebridge]

Im not specifically tracking my Eddington number but I do record audax rides and do a season end stock take. 

I've ridden over 150 * 200km audaxes (all but a handful have been same day affairs) so my Eddington number is definitely 125 at least.

A good proportion of my 200km audaxes are DIYs where there is very little over distance so I think Id be relying on those days when I was riding longer audaxes to get much higher (and that starts to get complicated as im then into trying to figure out how long I rode each day). 

Id stake a strong claim to 127 but cant see how Im close to 128.   

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Bills Easton Connection took my Eddington Number to 128.  If I have a good year this year, it could get to 130 (8 more rides required).

[rogerzilla]

I don't record rides but I know it's 35-36 miles because of endless weekend cafe runs.

[DuncanM]

Mine's 29 miles - one more ride of 30 to get there, but after that I drop off significantly (need 15 more rides to get to 35 miles)!

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

The main Eddington number is still on 128, although just needs two more rides to nudge it forwards.  However, the furlong Eddington number has been stepping up and is now 547 (68.4 miles).  I can see it getting up to about 640 but then struggling to move up from there.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Yesterday's commute into London took my furlong Eddington up to 548 (548 rides of 68.5 miles or 548 furlongs or longer).  It made me look at that spreadsheet that holds my basic ride data, and I've just passed the 1000 50+ rides mark.  (1001 since I have detailed records - from 1994). 

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

The Richard Ellis Memorial today nudged my Eddinton Number up to 129.

E129 is Azura Red food dye, or a series of electric trains on regional lines in Japan, introduced in 2014.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

E = 555f, 555 rides of 555 furlongs or more, which pleases the bizarre-statistics part of my brain.  I need another 14 rides of 70 miles (560 furlongs) or more to get it to 560, which should happen about June at current rate of progress.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Heart of England took my Eddington number up to 130, and my furlong Eddington to 557.

I need 8 more rides to get to 131, 14 to 132, and 20 to 133, so it will be glacial progress on that front, hence using the Ef number as a consolation - its easier to shift upwards.

[thing1]

Nice going!

I'm sat on 129 but should make it to 131 this summer, between PBP, qualifiers and a LEJOG. As you say it'll get glacial beyond that.

* You need 5 more days (of 130 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 130
* You need 9 more days (of 131 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 131
* You need 17 more days (of 132 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 132

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Tuesday's round trip to Oxford was my 560th ride of 70 miles (560 furlongs) or more, so Ef = 560.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

For the older folk (and those who only started counting recently) what's your age-related Eddington number?


That's  n rides of n miles/km after the age of  n years.  I'm  currently on 58 metric and hoping to get over sixty  but there will be a lot of longer rides I'll be losing.

I'll have to do some checking, but I think it will reach 58 (imperial) before my 59th birthday as I'm on about 35 100km rides so far this year.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Ef = 568 (568 rides of 568 furlongs or more) after yesterday's jaunt to the New Forest and Salisbury.
E(km) = 183 (183 rides of 183kms or more) ditto
E (miles) = 130 (the proper one) is getting resolutely hard to shift.  At current rate of progress 131 will be achieved next year and possibly 132, but 133 is unlikely to arrive until 2025 at the earliest.

[tonyh]

E (miles) = 141. Nine more at 142 or more to reach 142... very  unlikely now, nothing that long since 2017.

CET: backing you to overtake this! When we met early in our Audax careers in 2003, I was a youth of 61, with E = about 100. Good luck!

[psyclist]

E (miles) = 141.

That's very good going. I'm aiming to reach 133 miles by the year end, and then have aspirations on 135 and 140 miles as targets in the following 2 years. The issue I find is that I look at how many rides I need to reach each milestone, and then think it's worth aiming for a longer distance with each ride so that there are fewer rides to go after the first milestone is reached before getting to a larger milestone.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

E (miles) = 141. Nine more at 142 or more to reach 142... very  unlikely now, nothing that long since 2017.

CET: backing you to overtake this! When we met early in our Audax careers in 2003, I was a youth of 61, with E = about 100. Good luck!

I require 43 more rides of 143 miles to make 143 which, on current progress would take 9 years, at which time I would still hope to be an SR-capable 68.  I've sort of assumed that I will reach a ceiling at 150 unless I deliberately target a slightly higher number and focus on that.  I can't imagine getting to 186 (300km) as that would require me to more than double my current tally of 300km events.  I have a table of my Eddington progression (its easy to work out when you have a spreadsheet logbook) and in 2003 it was 61, which is less than my Eddington for this year, which is 62.

[Ivo]

E (miles) = 141. Nine more at 142 or more to reach 142... very  unlikely now, nothing that long since 2017.

CET: backing you to overtake this! When we met early in our Audax careers in 2003, I was a youth of 61, with E = about 100. Good luck!

I require 43 more rides of 143 miles to make 143 which, on current progress would take 9 years, at which time I would still hope to be an SR-capable 68.  I've sort of assumed that I will reach a ceiling at 150 unless I deliberately target a slightly higher number and focus on that.  I can't imagine getting to 186 (300km) as that would require me to more than double my current tally of 300km events.  I have a table of my Eddington progression (its easy to work out when you have a spreadsheet logbook) and in 2003 it was 61, which is less than my Eddington for this year, which is 62.

I'd need 47 to reach an imperial 186, which is fairly doable. I'm at 161 for an imperial Eddington now, I'd need 47 rides of 300 or more, which at current rate would be around 10 years. Since there's no timelimit on a ride, you can already be too slow for an SR, but still up your Eddington.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Today's London commute took my Furlong Eddington to 570 - 570 rides of 570 furlongs (71.25 miles)

[GdS]

200km or 125 miles