Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => Topic started by: jamesld8 on 05 January, 2015, 07:25:08 am
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Amazing--after riding a PBP distance so far this year Steve has been on road now since near 5:30 am it seems; superlatives on this guy and his tenacity are beginning to run out. Bon Courage Steve, and safe riding :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Weather forecast for today is cool but mostly dry. Getting wetter as the week progresses but staying well above freezing. If you can call 6 or 7 degrees "well above".
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Weather forecast for today is cool but mostly dry. Getting wetter as the week progresses but staying well above freezing. If you can call 6 or 7 degrees "well above".
well it`s probably one of best days weather so far this year for riding ;D Can Steve vary his routes much to allow for forecast very windy weather at end this week ? Looks quite stormy Friday / Saturday over here (Powys, west of Worcestershire :) )
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Can Steve vary his routes much to allow for forecast very windy weather at end this week ?
Yes, he has full control over that.
As opposed to something else which he'll encounter more of today than he has done previously: traffic.
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To a degree, he has control over that as well. I doubt that there is another cyclist in Britain who has a better knowledge of our road system than Steve does. As he demonstrated on Saturday, he has access to East Anglia, which had lots of big gaps between the centres of population. There should be quite a few roads there which will be flat and not have a lot of traffic on them. It would be the wrong place to go if it's windy, though.
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So Steve is now down on the A4 and apparently heading for the Tutti Pole :demon: I shall watch which way he looks to return home to see if he will be passing anywhere near the office for me to try to go out and see him.
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He's heading to Southend now! The dry one. ::-)
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Heading home the way he came, therefore not coming past my office.
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The tracker doesn't seem to be showing distance at the moment, is it just me?
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No, I can't see distance either...
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it has been taken off - because it was "inaccurate" ie straight line between spots understates actual distance. Strava is the official distance measuring system after the daily ride is uploaded. So until Steve uploads todays ride all we know is the total as at last night plus your visual impression of todays ride. If you examine the spots you can see what time Steve started -- which will give you a clue for hours ridden.
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Did it really matter that it was inaccurate? I'd rather some idea of distance travelled in real time than wait for a Strava upload later in the evening. That's still the "official" record.
On that point I see that the Strava feed on Steves website is now in km and not miles.
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Ok. Day 5 is on Strava. 182.3 miles, giving Steve a total of 953.9 miles and an avberage of 190.8 per day so far. His daily average is 12 miles per day more than Tommy.
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a suggestion; why not rename this thread Today then we can keep updating it rather than starting a new one?
this child board is already busier than the main Audax one (as probably are the featured riders ;))
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a suggestion; why not rename this thread Today then we can keep updating it rather than starting a new one?
this child board is already busier than the main Audax one (as probably are the featured riders ;))
I agree. Merge all five and go for the longest thread on the forum then too.
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For what it's worth I prefer the thread-per-day approach.
Later in the year it'll be much easier to refer specific dates than one humungous thread. And the bigger the thread the bigger the chance of thread derailment.
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I prefer thread per day too.
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I like the thread per day too.....I see today that Steve went through Pangbourne & Tidmarsh, I.e. within a mile of my house...twice :thumbsup:, but I was at work, in London :'(. Hope he travels this way again one weekend....more than happy to buy him a large snack in Pangbourne ;D
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I vote for thread a day.
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I prefer the thread a day too, although mentioning Steve passing someone's third cousin once removed is a bit tedious.
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I vote for thread a day.
Yes, same here.
Small is beautiful.
Not only that it means loads of different people get to start a new thread each day. Early bird gets the worm. That's me out then.
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Me too. :-)
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And me. Gives a nice sense of momentum, and of course, one trick of long distance cycling is to divide it up into manageable sections. Possibly the same applies to cheerleading long distance cycling :)
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...cheerleading long distance cycling :)
Is there a dress code?
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Cotton duck pom-poms?
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Did it really matter that it was inaccurate? I'd rather some idea of distance travelled in real time than wait for a Strava upload later in the evening. That's still the "official" record.
On that point I see that the Strava feed on Steves website is now in km and not miles.
From what I remember the mileage was a total figure which was already something like 8% out -- after a month or two - this figure would have become meaningless.
we were also getting queries about the difference - so rather than keep having an inaccurate and getting more inaccurate every day figure -- it has gone.
Roger
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I agree on a daily thread but think that perhaps they could be merged into weekly blocks after a suitable interval has passed.
I think it is a shame that the tracker does not display distance. It's not hard to understand what is going on.
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I agree on a daily thread but think that perhaps they could be merged into weekly blocks after a suitable interval has passed
Why merge them?
Why not leave them the way they happened, the way we all contributed to them day by day as Steve rode day by day?
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AFAICS all merging would achieve would be to make things more confusing to read and less searchable.
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AFAICS all merging would achieve would be to make things more confusing to read and less searchable.
Less searchable than it is already? Wowsa.
(A thread a day is a Good Thing. With a competition to have tyhe same number of posts in it as that day's miles)
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I agree on a daily thread but think that perhaps they could be merged into weekly blocks after a suitable interval has passed
Why merge them?
Why not leave them the way they happened, the way we all contributed to them day by day as Steve rode day by day?
Quite.
This is cycling history in the making.
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Interesting in that I've just come home, read this thread and haven't got a clue how Steve got on on the 5th!
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I vote for thread a day.
I like this format too, but it made me realize we'll want some pinned posts (or a pinned index post) in the main Tommy Goodwin board for the frequently accessed things that may otherwise get buried after a month. Donation info, tracker pages, etc.
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Interesting in that I've just come home, read this thread and haven't got a clue how Steve got on on the 5th!
Ok. Day 5 is on Strava. 182.3 miles, giving Steve a total of 953.9 miles and an avberage of 190.8 per day so far. His daily average is 12 miles per day more than Tommy.
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Just spotted this little jem on Strava...
Steven Abraham just upgraded to Premium, proving how much he loves to ride.
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They gave it to him as a thank you for promoting Strava ( I know for a fact !) Roger
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Just spotted this little jem on Strava...
Steven Abraham just upgraded to Premium, proving how much he loves to ride.
Someone should make a t-shirt for him with that on ;D
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Just spotted this little jem on Strava...
Steven Abraham just upgraded to Premium, proving how much he loves to ride.
Someone should make a t-shirt for him with that on ;D
I grabbed some screen shots of it, if anyone requires. (Else it's probably a simple mock up)