Author Topic: [HAMR] March 11th  (Read 6138 times)

[HAMR] March 11th
« on: 11 March, 2015, 05:22:34 am »
Steve's on the road again.

Go Steve!

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Re: March 11th
« Reply #1 on: 11 March, 2015, 05:28:41 am »
He is!

Good luck and tailwinds, Steve!
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Re: March 11th
« Reply #2 on: 11 March, 2015, 07:26:47 am »
Relentless!
You are in a maze of twisty flat droves, all alike.

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Re: March 11th
« Reply #3 on: 11 March, 2015, 07:37:48 am »
Relentless!

Has he got sponsorship from Coca-Cola's energy drink ????

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Re: March 11th
« Reply #4 on: 11 March, 2015, 07:38:57 am »
Go Steve!
Getting there...

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Re: March 11th
« Reply #5 on: 11 March, 2015, 07:47:59 am »
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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Re: March 11th
« Reply #6 on: 11 March, 2015, 07:52:17 am »
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).
Eddington Numbers 130 (imperial), 182 (metric) 571 (furlongs)  114 (nautical miles)

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Re: March 11th
« Reply #7 on: 11 March, 2015, 07:58:55 am »
Crank it up Mr A!

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Re: March 11th
« Reply #8 on: 11 March, 2015, 08:03:20 am »
He's forgotten them sossidges.  Turned round to head back home.
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Re: March 11th
« Reply #9 on: 11 March, 2015, 08:05:40 am »
Maybe he's planning to peel of to the left and pick up a couple of Gibbons!
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Re: March 11th
« Reply #10 on: 11 March, 2015, 08:07:21 am »
Go Steve, wherever the road leads you.
216km from Marsh Gibbon

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Re: March 11th
« Reply #11 on: 11 March, 2015, 08:14:48 am »
Relentless!

Has he got sponsorship from Coca-Cola's energy drink ????

By the end of the year they'll probably wish he had!
You are in a maze of twisty flat droves, all alike.

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Re: March 11th
« Reply #12 on: 11 March, 2015, 08:26:16 am »
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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Re: March 11th
« Reply #13 on: 11 March, 2015, 08:46:44 am »
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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Re: March 11th
« Reply #14 on: 11 March, 2015, 09:05:07 am »
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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Re: March 11th
« Reply #15 on: 11 March, 2015, 09:19:28 am »
Leek and gibbon, I would think.

It's a bit hilly round Leek.
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Re: March 11th
« Reply #16 on: 11 March, 2015, 09:23:05 am »
Is it hilly round Madras?

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Re: March 11th
« Reply #17 on: 11 March, 2015, 09:23:27 am »
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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Re: March 11th
« Reply #18 on: 11 March, 2015, 09:49:27 am »
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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Re: March 11th
« Reply #19 on: 11 March, 2015, 10:05:15 am »
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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Re: March 11th
« Reply #20 on: 11 March, 2015, 10:16:49 am »
If he keeps that up it'll confuse the bejeezus out of the trackleaders site.
You are in a maze of twisty flat droves, all alike.

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Datameister

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Re: March 11th
« Reply #21 on: 11 March, 2015, 10:39:47 am »
^^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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Re: March 11th
« Reply #22 on: 11 March, 2015, 10:45:11 am »
I'm still hopeful that he's just orbiting until he achieves escape velocity and pings off at a tangent towards Marsh Gibbon.
You are in a maze of twisty flat droves, all alike.

85.4 miles from Marsh Gibbon

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Datameister

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Re: March 11th
« Reply #23 on: 11 March, 2015, 10:47:49 am »
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!

Re: March 11th
« Reply #24 on: 11 March, 2015, 10:56:46 am »
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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