Author Topic: [HAMR] March 11th (Read 6172 times)

bobb · « **Reply #25 on:** 11 March, 2015, 11:00:05 am »

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!

rafletcher · « **Reply #26 on:** 11 March, 2015, 11:11:15 am »

I'm surprised he's doing it clockwise - all those right turns. Better to reverse rotation IMO.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #27 on:** 11 March, 2015, 11:28:36 am »

Quote from: T42 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.

So did I. Bof indeed.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #28 on:** 11 March, 2015, 11:31:42 am »

Quote from: rafletcher on 11 March, 2015, 11:11:15 am

I'm surprised he's doing it clockwise - all those right turns. Better to reverse rotation IMO.

Ah, but this way he goes further.

Basil · « **Reply #29 on:** 11 March, 2015, 11:46:19 am »

Quote from: rafletcher on 11 March, 2015, 11:11:15 am

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.

rafletcher · « **Reply #30 on:** 11 March, 2015, 11:52:15 am »

Well he's reached escape velocity now

Ningishzidda · « **Reply #31 on:** 11 March, 2015, 12:14:46 pm »

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.

Clemo · « **Reply #32 on:** 11 March, 2015, 12:25:13 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 11 March, 2015, 11:52:15 am

Well he's reached escape velocity now

A slingshot around the moon like an Apollo space capsule

Nuncio · « **Reply #33 on:** 11 March, 2015, 12:29:38 pm »

A Swedish proposition for the Marshworth holding pattern:

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And since the tracker, or rather the application, so inihelvete dumb so will not have any somhelst idea of distance traveled. Blinds for Tarzan?

aoxomoxoa · « **Reply #34 on:** 11 March, 2015, 12:34:02 pm »

Looks like he may have just had permission to leave the holding pattern and go into a gibbon glide path.

Ningishzidda · « **Reply #35 on:** 11 March, 2015, 12:36:32 pm »

Maybe he was looking for Pitstone Neyrnut.

Oaky · « **Reply #36 on:** 11 March, 2015, 12:51:14 pm »

What's that coming over the hill,
Is it a Gibbon? Is it a Gibbon?

Canardly · « **Reply #37 on:** 11 March, 2015, 01:11:07 pm »

Looks Gibbonward to me.

Oaky · « **Reply #38 on:** 11 March, 2015, 01:11:53 pm »

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?

aoxomoxoa · « **Reply #39 on:** 11 March, 2015, 01:26:16 pm »

Marsh Gibbon - 7.8km and closing...

Datameister · « **Reply #40 on:** 11 March, 2015, 01:42:40 pm »

Definite intercept course.....

aoxomoxoa · « **Reply #41 on:** 11 March, 2015, 01:47:38 pm »

We have Gibbon!

rabbit · « **Reply #42 on:** 11 March, 2015, 02:41:01 pm »

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

aoxomoxoa · « **Reply #43 on:** 11 March, 2015, 02:58:38 pm »

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?

michaelo · « **Reply #44 on:** 11 March, 2015, 02:59:41 pm »

I think his early loops have screwed up the tracker - I'm sure the distance has reduced since earlier in the day..

Oaky · « **Reply #45 on:** 11 March, 2015, 03:21:27 pm »

Quote from: michaelo on 11 March, 2015, 02:59:41 pm

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).

aoxomoxoa · « **Reply #46 on:** 11 March, 2015, 03:24:01 pm »

Quote from: Oaky on 11 March, 2015, 03:21:27 pm

Quote from: michaelo on 11 March, 2015, 02:59:41 pm
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.

Polar Bear · « **Reply #47 on:** 11 March, 2015, 03:27:30 pm »

Strava will intervene later.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #48 on:** 11 March, 2015, 03:31:49 pm »

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).

Oaky · « **Reply #49 on:** 11 March, 2015, 03:48:34 pm »

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.