Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => Topic started by: Nuncio on 11 March, 2015, 05:22:34 am
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Steve's on the road again.
Go Steve!
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He is!
Good luck and tailwinds, Steve!
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Relentless!
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Relentless!
Has he got sponsorship from Coca-Cola's energy drink ????
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Go Steve!
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Currently heading chez les Berks. I lived in Bushey for about a year in the 70s. Bof. Nice mushrooms on Stanmore Common, though. Wrong season for Steve.
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If Steve had registered each day as a DIY perm then he would now be on 182 points, with 44 300km rides and 25 200km rides (many of which are 280km+). He's now past my lifetime total of 300km plus rides (although some of those had 300km+ on multiple days).
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Crank it up Mr A!
H
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He's forgotten them sossidges. Turned round to head back home.
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Maybe he's planning to peel of to the left and pick up a couple of Gibbons!
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Go Steve, wherever the road leads you.
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Relentless!
Has he got sponsorship from Coca-Cola's energy drink ????
By the end of the year they'll probably wish he had!
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Mrs. T just ordered a mixer that includes a sausage machine. Just saying, on the off-chance that the Man in Red fancies a toddle through furriner parts than Finis Terrae this summer.
What's Steve's favourite sausage, then?
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Leek and gibbon, I would think.
The last 6 days from the UMCA spreadsheet show that Steve covered 1252.4 miles, Kurt 1252.2. Fag-paper stuff from two absolutely unbelievable cyclists. I wonder how a top TdF cyclist would fare with that sort of schedule.
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Leek and gibbon, I would think.
The last 6 days from the UMCA spreadsheet show that Steve covered 1252.4 miles, Kurt 1252.2. Fag-paper stuff from two absolutely unbelievable cyclists. I wonder how a top TdF cyclist would fare with that sort of schedule.
From Wikipedia.
“Between 3–5 August 2012, Irish Ultra-Distance Cyclist Ricky Geoghegan became the first person to cycle non-stop from Malin Head to Mizen Head and back to Malin Head on a route of 773.2 miles, setting an Ultra Marathon Cycling Association Record (UMCA) with a time of 2 days, 7 hours, and 37 minutes."
The urban myth was Sean Kelly did it in four days without feeling much grief.
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Leek and gibbon, I would think.
It's a bit hilly round Leek.
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Is it hilly round Madras?
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It brings a completely different meaning to the expression "a Flash in the pan".
Leek and gibbon, I would think.
The last 6 days from the UMCA spreadsheet show that Steve covered 1252.4 miles, Kurt 1252.2. Fag-paper stuff from two absolutely unbelievable cyclists. I wonder how a top TdF cyclist would fare with that sort of schedule.
From Wikipedia.
“Between 3–5 August 2012, Irish Ultra-Distance Cyclist Ricky Geoghegan became the first person to cycle non-stop from Malin Head to Mizen Head and back to Malin Head on a route of 773.2 miles, setting an Ultra Marathon Cycling Association Record (UMCA) with a time of 2 days, 7 hours, and 37 minutes."
The urban myth was Sean Kelly did it in four days without feeling much grief.
Yes, but that's only about 400 miles each way. Mrs. Wow and I did that, one way, in 8 days. Could they do that for a couple of months?
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I wonder how a top TdF cyclist would fare with that sort of schedule.
Pretty well I would imagine. A professional will typically ride about 30,000 miles a year. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Much of those 30,000 miles is done at very high speed indeed. And there'd be no shortage of climbing either!
So a pro would have a backgound of riding more miles than Steve or Kurt normally would (well, they don't have to go to work!) every year. This would surely mean they would be perfectly capable of keeping to that sort of schedule....
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After the grand tour of the past couple of days, this morning Steve seems to have settled for orbiting a small patch of land a little way to the east of Aylesbury.
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If he keeps that up it'll confuse the bejeezus out of the trackleaders site.
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^^It looks like it already has.
Staying close to home today, or in the SE corner of En-ger-land, to keep out of the forecast rain for as long as possible?
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I'm still hopeful that he's just orbiting until he achieves escape velocity and pings off at a tangent towards Marsh Gibbon.
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A cunning plan, if he orbits close enough to Wilstone he may achieve sufficient velocity to travel back in time and post a 600 mile day for yesterday.
Genius!
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Bloody typical, he's doing circuits around roads not a mile for where I live, I of course I am at work 20 miles away >:( At least he's close enough to Meads Farm Shop for food (a regular cyclists stop near Wilstone)
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There's nothing on the calendar, but could he be doing some sort of interview/publicity thing this morning? Might be the reason for going round in circles!
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I'm surprised he's doing it clockwise - all those right turns. Better to reverse rotation IMO.
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Currently heading chez les Berks. I lived in Bushey for about a year in the 70s. Bof.
So did I. Bof indeed.
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I'm surprised he's doing it clockwise - all those right turns. Better to reverse rotation IMO.
Ah, but this way he goes further.
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I'm surprised he's doing it clockwise - all those right turns. Better to reverse rotation IMO.
I find clockwise turns to be much easier. (I know I am in a minority there) In fact, I tend to be a bit wibbley on anticlockwise.
As I'm not ever going to be racing, or on a track, that's fine, as I find U turns on roads nice and easy.
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Well he's reached escape velocity now :thumbsup:
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In days of old, when knights were bold,
Before bicycles had been invented.
They’d plot their course and mount their horse,
And sit on it quite contented.
But now there’s the bike, and we ride where we like.
Helped by satellites flying in orbit,
Looking for towns and lanes, with peculiar names,
Like Marsh Gibbon or Chaddesley Corbett.
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Well he's reached escape velocity now :thumbsup:
A slingshot around the moon like an Apollo space capsule ;D :thumbsup:
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A Swedish proposition for the Marshworth holding pattern:
And since the tracker, or rather the application, so inihelvete dumb so will not have any somhelst idea of distance traveled. Blinds for Tarzan?
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Looks like he may have just had permission to leave the holding pattern and go into a gibbon glide path.
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Maybe he was looking for Pitstone Neyrnut.
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What's that coming over the hill,
Is it a Gibbon? Is it a Gibbon?
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Looks Gibbonward to me.
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Looks to have stopped. Lunch at the George and Dragon in Quainton? (Or a hole in the tracker's GSM coverage?)
http://georgeanddragonquainton.co.uk/menus/main-courses/
Mixed Grill, one of the pies or both of the pies? ;)
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Marsh Gibbon - 7.8km and closing...
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Definite intercept course.....
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We have Gibbon!
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Well done Steve - watching the increased mileage with a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that the weather will give you some proper respite from the chilliness soon and that the long warm days of summer aren't far away :thumbsup:
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I notice that Steve's average speed thus far today is quite low - about 8 mph. Is he weighed down by too much sausage, or is he practicing tantric cycling to heighten the pleasure when he gibboned?
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I think his early loops have screwed up the tracker - I'm sure the distance has reduced since earlier in the day..
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I think his early loops have screwed up the tracker - I'm sure the distance has reduced since earlier in the day..
After a period of time, it thins out the older track to very sparse points (about a point every 15-30 minutes it looks like) - it looks like this now includes his tight circles, so it will indeed be majorly underestimating now (i.e. even more than it was doing so before with 2-3 minute intervals).
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I think his early loops have screwed up the tracker - I'm sure the distance has reduced since earlier in the day..
After a period of time, it thins out the older track to very sparse points (about a point every 15 minutes it looks like) - it looks like this now includes his tight circles, so it will indeed be majorly underestimating now (i.e. even more than it was doing so before with 2-3 minute intervals).
I'd assumed that even though it shows fewer track points, it would remember the originally tracked distance. Are you saying that it recalculates the distance as though the intervening points had never happened? Seems a bit of an elementary error.
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Strava will intervene later. :thumbsup:
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I'm sure that when Tarzan was riding up and down the sea front the other day he actually lost about twenty miles during the day (but got it back again with Strava).
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Yep - and when Steve set off before 3 a.m. the other day, when the tracker reset for a new day at 0300, those miles disappeared until we got the Strava upload in the evening.
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Yes - pretty sure I saw the tracker around the 83 miles mark sometime around 11am, then 63 miles several hours later.
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It appears he might be going loopy again! ;D
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I think he's trying to draw something...
142 miles on Tracker, 112 on Audax 'Ackney's map. One is curious.
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199.4 on Strava :thumbsup:
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That's a great short day :thumbsup:
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Fantastic :D
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A "mere" 320. Chickenfeed for the Master. And a gibbon with it.
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A "mere" 320. Chickenfeed for the Master. And a gibbon with it.
Gibbonfeed.
New word.
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Hail the Gibbon!!
H