Author Topic: [HAMR] Another go .. TG??  (Read 175312 times)

mattc

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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #325 on: 08 March, 2017, 08:40:55 am »
I think Steve said (maybe in that MTB interview?) that one Lesson Learnt is to start after the morning rush-hour.
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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #326 on: 08 March, 2017, 09:19:01 am »
yep - and now 20 miles already showing on the tracker so it looks like he has braved the school run in search of more miles.   This is a great start to his year   Thoroughly enjoying having something to distract me in the office too ....well done Steve (and Ivan)

edit - actually I think its the miles after midnight I was looking at on the tracker    :facepalm:  so a later start does seem to be the case

Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #327 on: 08 March, 2017, 02:30:50 pm »
Such a great effort from Steve, in weather and with significant ascent. 
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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #328 on: 08 March, 2017, 04:31:28 pm »
I've knocked something up on the tracking front using Steve's spot feed: http://frrt.org/tg/. I'm splitting his track each midnight and treating each day as a separate 'rider', so the list linked at the top of that page acts as a kind of archive. By default that map only shows the current day to make it readable, and there is another view here which you might prefer: http://frrt.org/tg/r/1-steve/map.

Thanks very much Ivan. That makes it so much easier to access and feel involved with what Steve is doing. I'll feel guilty if I go to bed while he is still out on the road.

This is my favourite view - http://frrt.org/tg/r/1-steve - as it shows today's distance as well as the map, profile and average speed.

Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #329 on: 08 March, 2017, 04:49:02 pm »
Thanks for the thanks! If he keeps on riding into the early hours, I might tweak it to split on the break rather than at midnight, as those stats don't make a lot of sense today. Also will try and sort a certificate for the site so the 'show me where I am' button works in Chrome, for anyone trying to track him down.
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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #330 on: 08 March, 2017, 05:00:58 pm »
Great stuff, Ivan.

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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #331 on: 08 March, 2017, 05:34:10 pm »
That's great.  Thank you very much.  :thumbsup:

Is there any way that I can see the map and the track and route distance but not the Speed Height box which takes up too much space on my tablet?
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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #332 on: 08 March, 2017, 05:50:58 pm »
That makes it so much easier to access and feel involved with what Steve is doing. I'll feel guilty if I go to bed while he is still out on the road.


Here we go again  ;D

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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #333 on: 08 March, 2017, 09:25:27 pm »
It really is great having the morning peer into the Ivanoscope back on the daily routine :-)
If he keeps on riding into the early hours, I might tweak it to split on the break rather than at midnight, as those stats don't make a lot of sense today.
If you do that it becomes confusing cross referencing to the UMCA records.  They split at local midnight and the rules require riders to stop and begin a new track at local midnight.
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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #334 on: 09 March, 2017, 10:51:36 pm »
Daft question: On Ivan's webby science page it shows text like this:
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Track / Route: 310 / 368 km
Does that mean Steve has done 310km out of 368 km for the day, ie riding to a pre announced route, or is there a subtle difference between a "Route" and a "track" which shows itself as the two different distances? Or something else?
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simonp

Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #335 on: 09 March, 2017, 10:54:14 pm »
Spot tracker points are infrequent. The route is an estimate of the true road distance.

Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #336 on: 10 March, 2017, 02:49:25 pm »
How many miles has Steve covered this week and approximate end of first week.

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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #337 on: 10 March, 2017, 03:03:39 pm »
From Jan 5-9 inclusive he averaged 227.9 miles per day.

He 'only' managed  164.8 on his first day, which means his average from the 4th to the 9th is 217.2

Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #338 on: 10 March, 2017, 04:05:43 pm »
Steve's Day1 was 251km + 264km... two entries (I believe).  ~320mls.
Cycle and recycle.   SS Wilson

IJL

Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #339 on: 10 March, 2017, 04:11:19 pm »
There are 2 rides on Strava for the 4th and he's tweeted that the mileage at the start of the 5th day is 1030 which puts the average to 257 miles

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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #340 on: 10 March, 2017, 04:16:15 pm »
There are 2 rides on Strava for the 4th and he's tweeted that the mileage at the start of the 5th day is 1030 which puts the average to 257 miles
Another 90 lots of that and he'll be home and dry...
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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #341 on: 10 March, 2017, 04:56:37 pm »
From Jan 5-9 inclusive he averaged 227.9 miles per day.

He 'only' managed  164.8 on his first day, which means his average from the 4th to the 9th is 217.2




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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #342 on: 13 March, 2017, 10:17:13 pm »
The Time Trialling  Forum is following Steve's ride, describing his route by the codes used for TT courses.

Different :)

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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #343 on: 13 March, 2017, 10:25:06 pm »
I quite like it!  I wonder if we'll see him on the V718? 

He's tweeted that at the end of week 1 his average daily mileage is 238.

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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #344 on: 16 March, 2017, 09:59:56 am »

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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #345 on: 16 March, 2017, 11:07:47 pm »
My reading of Ivan's Webby Science suggests there was a big patch of low/zero speed from about 1300 - 1500 today. Any ideas why?
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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #346 on: 17 March, 2017, 08:40:56 am »
My reading of Ivan's Webby Science suggests there was a big patch of low/zero speed from about 1300 - 1500 today. Any ideas why?

Doesn't match his Strava for the day: https://www.strava.com/activities/903128419/analysis

Clicking on the "plot against time" icon there's a stop from 8h52 into the ride to 9h20 (at the Wimpy in Haverhill). Given a ride that started at 9:57am that's nowhere near the 1300-1500 bit.

3h into his Strava ride (e.g. 1300) he had done 79.8km. 5h into his Strava ride (1500) he had done 137.5km. So that's 57.7km in those 2h.

Ah, actually looking at Ivan's webby science for yesterday I can see why. It's because the lighter blue plot is elevation not speed. At 1200 he goes over the first of 3 short sharp hills passing NE of Huntingdon and then he's into the fens. The bump at 1500 is Downham Market.

It's the dark blue line which is route speed, which is tricky to determine accurately from the sparse SPOT points and lack of good route information, so Ivan is plotting a broad guess for each half an hour.
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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #347 on: 17 March, 2017, 10:44:06 am »
Video update from Steve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmf_N6IExE&feature=youtu.be
That was good.  He may as well do something while sat in the office. ;D

Very positive.  Hope to hear more as we go on.

And Steve has learned to stop mumbling! :) :thumbsup:
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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #348 on: 17 March, 2017, 11:11:14 am »


And Steve has learned to stop mumbling! :) :thumbsup:
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Ahh wait till he gets tired (later in the year! )

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Re: Another go .. TG??
« Reply #349 on: 17 March, 2017, 11:41:38 am »
And Steve has learned to stop mumbling! :) :thumbsup:

Missed a trick with the video title though. Should have been Shakin' Steven's ... Maybe the shaking has freed up his voice box from mumbling..