[HAMR] February 13th

[swiss hat]

Steve's on the road by 5:15 heading to hosts at Barton-on-Humber tonight. His base route is 180 miles but expects to add a bit extra along the way. First stop will be the Premier Inn buffet at Norman Cross nr Peterborough. He recommends the buffet having had a good feed there yesterday (will they let him in again today?)

Don't mention that it's Friday - oops too late.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Every morning I get up early to sort out breakfast before commuting to London.  Every day Steve is out there on the road already, eating up another 200 miles and eating out a chain of all day buffets.  Thank Swiss Hat for looking after him and sending him on his way again.

[The Seldom Killer]

Bugger,

I read that and immediately thought "Hurrah, that's near to me, I can finally go ride with Steve".

Then I remembered that I am ill and thus need to be confined to OYTT Quarantine.

Oh well, I guess I'll have to wait a bit longer.

[Nuncio]

Good work swiss hat. 

I'm curious - is it easy getting Steve up in the morning? Or even difficult getting him to bed at night? - I seem to remember LWaB saying he got talkative after being fed his evening meal.

[T42]

Can anyone make sense of Track Leader's moving time/stopped time figures?

[delthebike]

Can anyone make sense of Track Leader's moving time/stopped time figures?

Moving Time   24:13:04
Stopped Time   18:20:00
X Time = DD:HH:MM

[Ningishzidda]

Can anyone make sense of Track Leader's moving time/stopped time figures?

Moving Time   24:13:04
Stopped Time   18:20:00
X Time = DD:HH:MM

He's 43 days 9 hrs 35 mins in.

[swiss hat]

I'm curious - is it easy getting Steve up in the morning? Or even difficult getting him to bed at night? - I seem to remember LWaB saying he got talkative after being fed his evening meal.

Last couple of nights he's been feeling sleepy after eating and has gone straight to bed. No problem getting him up; put the kettle on and give him a call and he's up by the time tea is ready.

[Ningishzidda]

I'm curious - is it easy getting Steve up in the morning? Or even difficult getting him to bed at night? - I seem to remember LWaB saying he got talkative after being fed his evening meal.

Last couple of nights he's been feeling sleepy after eating and has gone straight to bed. No problem getting him up; put the kettle on and give him a call and he's up by the time tea is ready.

My question answered. He WAS Special Forces.   

[T42]

Can anyone make sense of Track Leader's moving time/stopped time figures?

Moving Time   24:13:04
Stopped Time   18:20:00
X Time = DD:HH:MM

He's 43 days 9 hrs 35 mins in.

Aye well, you can lend me your "Dummies" avatar, I've been trying to make sense of it as HH:MM:SS.

[Ningishzidda]

Can anyone make sense of Track Leader's moving time/stopped time figures?

Moving Time   24:13:04
Stopped Time   18:20:00
X Time = DD:HH:MM

He's 43 days 9 hrs 35 mins in.

Aye well, you can lend me your "Dummies" avatar, I've been trying to make sense of it as HH:MM:SS.

No slur intended on yourself.

Just remarking the numbers still don't make sense.

[Datameister]

So looking at the (under-recording) tracker, I estimate that Mr Grinder is about 100 miles into todays ride, and has probably already stopped once today for breakfast.

This leads me to a moment of clarity regarding the size of this challenge.

I reckon that Steve has covered 100 miles today in about, or just under, 6 hours.

Only once have I ever gone below 6 hours for 100 miles on one of them there Sportives and there he is, in the depths of a British Winter, doing that twice a day, every day.

Ain't no chapeau large enough.

[Salvatore]

For the second day in a row Steve has performed an elaborate manoeuvre at the Deepings. I reckon it's a ploy to avoid the Boundary Fish Bar on Horsegate (near Terry Wright Cycles). The left-hand door is in Deeping St James, the right-hand one in Market Deeping. When I lived there it was the practice enter and place your order in MD and then collect your cod and exit in DStJ, but that was many years ago.

[simonp]

In 2011 I rode the first 150km of the BCM into a headwind on fixed with one food stop in around 6 hours. I bonked as I arrived at the Nant Y Arian control.

[T42]

I've never achieved that sort of time, but then I didn't start serious road cycling until I was 12 years older than Steve is now.  A year or two later my usual 160k took 6h45 hours riding time + 20 minutes stopped, with a total of 1300m climbing; the same now takes me about 8 hours on the bike and at least an hour of breaks.

[IanDG]

I did my first ever 100 mile ride in under 7 hours in 1974 - 2 weeks before my 13th birthday 

I don't think I've ever been in a place where I could consider 200 miles at that pace day after day after day after day....................... for a week  let alone a year.

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

100 miles in 6 hours is a typical pace for the sharp end of an Audax event.  On the BCM they'll get to Menai (300km) just over 12 hours.  And BCM is reasonable hilly.  But they won't do that day in day out.  And that will mostly be riding in small groups (with a decent peloton as far as the first control).  So the hats can remain doffed.  Permanently.

[simonp]

Steve came past me on a climb on the BCM 2008. I was geared, he was on fixed. I couldn't catch his wheel.

[Arry-R]

Do remember that he is only just 'running in'  come to July and his daily mileage will be around 276 - 285 per day! !
 

[Jack_P]

285 miles at 15mph is 19 hours in the saddle, and TG typically stops for 2 hours each day at present.
Having done a couple of 280 mile days myself I can appreciate that is some going on a daily basis.

will we see just how great Tommy G's summer miles were.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

Steve is aiming to get quicker as the weather improves, which seems reasonable.

[rabbit]

Well done Steve, still going from strength to strength it seems 

Good to hear the insights from Swiss Hat to the overnight stays.  Makes it seem real.  Although often I struggle to believe it is.  Amazing stuff.   

[Salvatore]

<local trivia>
Steve is currently steaming along Tom Otter's Lane, approaching Tom Otter's Bridge.  Tom Otter was executed in 1805 for bludgeoning his wife to death on their wedding day. She had named him as the father of her child and he had been forced to marry her, although he already had a wife at Southwell.  He was executed at Lincoln and his body was suspended from a gibbet at the scene of the crime until the gibbet post blew down in a gale in 1850. Birds were reported to be nesting in the skull in 1810. Gibbetwood Farm is not far from where Steve is now.
</local trivia>

[Nuncio]

Wasn't he a banker?

[danridesbikes]

Just outside Kirton a short time ago, wet, cold, windy and miserable up here