[HAMR] A new challenger - Miles Smith

[Ham]

This was written in 2010 http://cyclingtips.com.au/2010/05/the-hell-ride-bites-again/

So, after 2006 when a pedestrian was killed but before the most recent crash reported when three cyclists were hospitalised, by all accounts there are a lot more incidents.

[Gabrielle260]

It's 7am here in Melbourne and I've woken to tropical strength rain and strong winds. I think there may have been some hail in there. Just checked the tracker and Miles is near home. Hopefully he's able to avoid it as it was the sort of rain where cars pull over and stop on the freeways!!
The weather radar shows its passing through so Miles may be able to get back into it soon.
I can't remember rain this hard in Melbourne in the last 12 months.
Andrew

[hillbilly]

Looks like whoever said he was going to do the same route all year was blowing smoke.  He rode a different route over the weekend, which is disappointing as I can no longer use the oh-so-hilarious Groundhog Day meme. 

Based on Strava, it looks like he flew back home as well.  Literally.  I don't think all of those miles will count...

[jefmcg]

Looks like a nice ride.  I didn't do long distance cycling when I lived in Australia.  Just had a look at a bit of it.  The Hume Hwy is the most direct route for cars between Melbourne and Sydney.  It's been replaced with a motorway - at least until the border with NSW.  Anyway, that leaves a divided road (dual carriageway) unused except for local traffic.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@-36.459105,146.230413,3a,75y,34.41h,75.37t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1swAVdJRUxjGCA0TIEBbltCQ!2e0?hl=en

[red marley]

I'm a little disappointed in the unreliability of Miles' uploads. Sometimes more than 24 hours late, a couple of what appear to be missing uploads (e.g. 14th and maybe 17th/18th) and his latest for 20th April seems to include non-cycling transport back to Melbourne mixed in with the track for his ride. It all makes it really quite hard to work out exactly how many official miles he has ridden.

[Legs]

This ^^^

Get your 5h1t in order, Miles, or I'll stop kudossing you on Strava.  Hell, I might even unfollow you...

[SoreTween]

I'm a little disappointed in the unreliability of Miles' uploads. Sometimes more than 24 hours late, a couple of what appear to be missing uploads (e.g. 14th and maybe 17th/18th) and his latest for 20th April seems to include non-cycling transport back to Melbourne mixed in with the track for his ride. It all makes it really quite hard to work out exactly how many official miles he has ridden.

Not arf.  He has fixed the rail journey home sacrificing the legitimate time in the saddle when he got back to Melbourne but it's still not right.  I've done some analysis, watch for another thread this morning.

[Pmathews]

G'day,

I'm Peter Mathews, one of the Audax Oz mob supporting Miles' HMR attempt. I'm his data minder and can tell you it's been a rough start. Both Strava and the HM'R leaderboard are out of whack. However our tally agrees exactly with the data Drew harvested separately from MIles' Garmin site (phew).

Miles basic route is up and down the Port Phillip Bay between Melbourne and Portsea. It is 200 km per cycle. As things settle down Miles will head away from Melbourne for a change of scenery and to participate in some long Audax events. Logistically we are still working out the best ways to manage this in terms of support, sleep, food and data management but stay tuned.

As of day 11 Miles Smith's tally is 2332.62miles (3753.988001km) or an average of 212.0563636 miles per day (341.2716365km). This is the data taken from his Garmin and tallies exactly with the data Drew distributed to each team yesterday.

We are building a website at gomiles.com.au - where you can see that each of his bikes has HUGE front rings. When Miles turned up for his first Audax Oz event only a couple of years ago (it was 1,000 km) we all looked at the ring in horror. But, believe me, he's like a big diesel and just cranks out the miles.

I think Miles would like to ramp up the miles per day once he settles into the routine of this a bit.
Strava is killing the data at present and misinterprets data loaded from the Garmin site consistently.  This was the cause of the Wangaratta "glitch". Please note that Mile's Garmin was paused during the train trip back to Melbourne and did not in fact record that distance. The total distance travelled in that leg was 21.09 miles (distance from Wang to Melb is about 155 miles). This was the distance from his sleep stop at an Audax Club member's place outside Wangaratta (with a bit of wandering around looking for food and stuff) plus the distance from the Melbourne train station to his place and back to Abbottsford Cycles on Monday morning to upload the data.

Hope this helps, and if you have other queries or comments please drop me a line here or to pmathews.mob@gmail.com.

Mr Fidgetbuzz should note that Miles is on of Keith's wednesday warriors!

Cheez,

PeterM

[Ningishzidda]

G'day,

I'm Peter Mathews, one of the Audax Oz mob supporting Miles' HMR attempt. I'm his data minder and can tell you it's been a rough start. Both Strava and the HM'R leaderboard are out of whack. However our tally agrees exactly with the data Drew harvested separately from MIles' Garmin site (phew).

Miles basic route is up and down the Port Phillip Bay between Melbourne and Portsea. It is 200 km per cycle. As things settle down Miles will head away from Melbourne for a change of scenery and to participate in some long Audax events. Logistically we are still working out the best ways to manage this in terms of support, sleep, food and data management but stay tuned.

As of day 11 Miles Smith's tally is 2332.62miles (3753.988001km) or an average of 212.0563636 miles per day (341.2716365km). This is the data taken from his Garmin and tallies exactly with the data Drew distributed to each team yesterday.

We are building a website at gomiles.com.au - where you can see that each of his bikes has HUGE front rings. When Miles turned up for his first Audax Oz event only a couple of years ago (it was 1,000 km) we all looked at the ring in horror. But, believe me, he's like a big diesel and just cranks out the miles.

I think Miles would like to ramp up the miles per day once he settles into the routine of this a bit.
Strava is killing the data at present and misinterprets data loaded from the Garmin site consistently.  This was the cause of the Wangaratta "glitch". Please note that Mile's Garmin was paused during the train trip back to Melbourne and did not in fact record that distance. The total distance travelled in that leg was 21.09 miles (distance from Wang to Melb is about 155 miles). This was the distance from his sleep stop at an Audax Club member's place outside Wangaratta (with a bit of wandering around looking for food and stuff) plus the distance from the Melbourne train station to his place and back to Abbottsford Cycles on Monday morning to upload the data.

Hope this helps, and if you have other queries or comments please drop me a line here or to pmathews.mob@gmail.com.

Mr Fidgetbuzz should note that Miles is on of Keith's wednesday warriors!

Cheez,

PeterM

Are you the Pete Matthews originally from Liverpool?

Respect.

[LittleWheelsandBig]

This Pete has been Audax Oz president. Not the bloke you are thinking of.

[Ningishzidda]

This Pete has been Audax Oz president. Not the bloke you are thinking of.

Just noticed. Different spelling.   

[simonp]

Strava' interpretation of split tracks is bad and wrong.

[jochta]

3753.988001km?! Somehow I don't think any Garmin system is accurate to 1mm

[danridesbikes]

start pedalling, click go on Garmin, finish ride/jump on transport and click stop and reset

how hard can it be to get the basics right?

[jefmcg]

Well, as the data minder doesn't understand significant figures, maybe it can be quite hard.

(sorry Peter  )

[Pmathews]

As it was all getting a bit excitable I didn't clip the spreadsheet numbers, and you never know when that extra mm may come in handy.

One of Miles quirks is that he doesn't like tech on the bike. Getting the Garmin was a major concession.  A little more button work will get us there.

PeterM

[simonp]

If you stop the garmin recording, transfer, and start again, Strava joins the two segments with a straight line. It's really annoying.

[hillbilly]

Miles sounds like a proper antipodean audax headbanger. Looking forward to seeing how he racks up the distance over the year, as I'd imagine there are going to be some huge rides

[jefmcg]

Miles sounds like a proper antipodean audax headbanger. Looking forward to seeing how he racks up the distance over the year, as I'd imagine there are going to be some huge rides

He's pommy, though, I understand.

[Ningishzidda]

If he was an Aussie, he'd be Kilometers Smith.

[jefmcg]

 

He's over 50 so he was named well before Australia went metric.  Oddly though, I don't think i ever met a Miles in australia, but it's a pretty common name in UK.  Actually, most men his age in Australia are called David. 

[Nuncio]

Not Bruce?

[jefmcg]

The Bruce-thing is the stuff of British comedy, and - like the hats with corks on it - very rarely seen in the wild.

But David: I organised something for a bunch of people, not all of whom know each other.  Afterwards I introduced those who had not met before.  I can still remember my exact words "David, this is David, David, David and - eh - David"

[Mr Larrington]

My grate frend Dr Butcher, a BRITON, used to get very cross when someone would tell her "Dave rang for you" since she knew eighteen Daves.  And this was before the TV channel of that ilk was invented.

[L CC]