What's your Eddington number ?

[LEE]

72

(but that's based on 72 rides of 100 miles or more so each time I ride 100 miles it will increase all the way up to 100, if I checked in more detail it may be a slightly higher than 72).

Two and a bit RRTYs would get me to 100 fairly quickly.

Since I've done a fair few rides over 100 miles I can see potential for E=103 fairly easily but then there's a big jump to 125 that I can't see me making.

Surely a fair few Audaxers have E=125, 10xRRTY gets you damn close.

I've now done 75 rides of 100 miles or more so that's a definite E=75.  I should really check how many rides between 75 & 100 I've done

Edit.  E=85

I should be able to get to 107 over the next few Audax years (2 x RRTY) but, once I get to 107, my "bank" of slightly over-distance 100 milers rides starts to run out and for every ride I try to add at the top, I lose one at the bottom.

I'll be very happy to reach 100, I think that's not an unreasonable achievement, 100 miles ridden 100 times.

[ianrauk]

Just reached 102.
Need 1 more 103 to jump to that figure and 4 x 104's to jump to that figure.

[thing1]

If you (and all your rides) are on Strava, there's an app for this: http://canini.me/eddington
It does a good job of adding up all the rides in a given day, but not splitting out rides spanning multiple days. Happily, I generally record & upload long rides in day-sized chunks.

E_Thing1 = 76  [2014-11-13]

[L CC]

Is that all thing1? It seems very low to me? Or just since _STRAVA records began?

[simonp]

Is that all thing1? It seems very low to me? Or just since _STRAVA records began?

Mine is similarly unimpressive (79) because:

 - strava records for me only go back as far as around 2010 (and are not complete since then)
 - multi-day rides such as LEL which I've entered as a single ride only count for one ride; when I computed it myself I considered PBP to be worth 3 rides of 200 miles ish and LEL 4 of around 180 miles, for instance. I guess the app is not examining the gpx log and determining if a ride spans multiple days. So I could increase the number if I went through and split up any multi day rides, but I prefer to record them as such.

[L CC]

Mine's 129, with 3 x 130 required for 130.

I just don't really believe I've done that many more moderately long days than thing1.

Or maybe his greater speed means he does the same distance in fewer days 

[simonp]

Mine's 129, with 3 x 130 required for 130.

I just don't really believe I've done that many more moderately long days than thing1.

Or maybe his greater speed means he does the same distance in fewer days 

I could probably claim over 120 now if I worked it out based only on Audax results.

[thing1]

Is that all thing1? It seems very low to me? Or just since _STRAVA records began?

  Yes I realized I used to Audax without GPS, and there's probably a few touring days over 80miles that won't be on there either. Would be interesting to xref the brevet cards. I don't think I'm over 100 though.

Funny story - thinking 76 was a modest score I posted it on the work biking list and promptly got back praise and congratulations for having such a high number. Including from the author of that app who I didn't even know worked there (a surprisingly common occurrence at my work. Stories include "why does UTF-8 work this way?" "why is Java like X?" "what was the phrase used by my MIT CS lecturer in 1980" and in all cases the author of said thing has replied....)

[Nethypete]

Mr Eddington is a harsh master....SR Series this year plus another ten 200's and I move from E59 to E66. It will take another similar year to move into mid 70's. And I thought I was a cyclist.

[jamesld8]

Just for fun of it---being a rather grey cold day here...have accumulated all cycle rides I`ve logged on Excel between 2002 -2014;

SCAREY I have ridden 2193 logged rides; about 500 of these are down to a daily 15-17 mile commute.
Just under 64 000miles to date

If I understand Eddington correctly my E=79; probably a bit higher over cycling span as have in youth---since aged 14-- done several  200km Audaxes (eg Exmoor Grimpeur a couple times, Crossing Desert of Wales ) / and one 400km rides and other longer unlogged (on Excel) cycle routes of over 80 miles---

so maybe I`m about E=85??

[ianrauk]

Got to 103 last weekend. Need x 2 104's and 8 105's.

[Aunt Maud]

In audax years mines about E24.

I can tell you're impressed.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

The Poor Student took it up to 109.  Progress is getting easier for a while now that I have got over the lump of rides that were 100 miles or just over.  Only need 2 for 110, 4 for 111, 8 for 112 and 9 for 113, which hopefully will get this year.

[adam w]

just got over 60 rides of 60+ miles. That's over 2/3 years so some work still to do

[matthew]

based on childhood tours, teenage tours, fnrttc and other social rides it should be at least 55 but I have no records to prove it.

[andrew_s]

Never mind my Eddington number (*), what we want to know is what Teethgrinder's Eddington number is, not to mention what it will be at the end of the year.


*
114, last time I worked it out. I very much doubt it's increased since.

[ianrauk]

Reached 104. Now need 5x 105's to reach that figure.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

110

[Bus Shelter Bertie]

130 - only calculated it recently as a clubmate offered 67 and he thought that I'd be passing that soon. He was quite "surprised" at the figure. Cannot get much higher now - but hope to reach 131 by the end of May.

[ianrauk]

With yesterdays Oasts & Coasts Audax I have now reached 105.
Need x6 106+ to reach that number.

[jenhunt]

not doing nearly as badly as I thought.... used that strava thingumywhatsit to work it out for me (which counts my commute as 2x7 mile rides each time)...

According to my Strava data, I've cycled 28+ miles on 28 different days = so E=28 currently

To reach an Eddington number of 30, I need 3 more rides of 30+ miles.
To reach an Eddington number of 35, I need 12 more rides of 35+ miles.
To reach an Eddington number of 40, I need 25 more rides of 40+ miles.

all in all, that means that with what I have planned for May and indeed the rest of the year - I would hope to be E=35 or more by the end of May, and something like E=45 by the end of the year!



quite pleased with that for a relative novice.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Yesterday's effort took me to 111 x 111 rides so a double Nelson or E111.

E111 is also s the disodium salt of 1-(m-sulfophenylazo)-2-naphthol-6-sulfonic acid, used as a food dye but banned since 1978 as it was proven to be toxic.  And the European Health Insurance Card which might be handy on PBP.

4 rides of 112+ miles are required for the next improvement which, ironically might be in PBP.  The bigger milestone, which might just be squeezed in this year is 100 x 200km+ rides.  I do myself out of things a little as I count multi-day events such as PBP as one ride not 3x or 4x, primarily because I can't be bothered to work out what distance I'd done at midnight.

[jenhunt]

whoop! just hit the 30 mark.... and only a couple more rides to get to 35...

[Oaky]

Currently on E=52.

My E would be higher if I had proper Eddington-compliant records (splitting multi-day rides such as overnight 300s, 400s and 600s into their day-by day components and combining multiple shorter rides in a day).  My not-quite-Eddington number is calculated over whichever rides I recorded separately... I tend to record an Audax as a single ride, so I get Eddington-short-changed on the two day ones.  I separate obvious two day trips such as camping into out and back, so those are OK).  I doubt the approximation makes a great deal of difference though.

I still need 20 more 100k rides to get it above 62 though!

[Pedal Castro]

I would count a day's ride as a day's ride, even if I finished in the early hours. Only if a ride was over 24 hours or contained an hours of darkness sleep, would I count it as two for Eddington purposes.