What's your Eddington number ?

[StuAff]

Hit 100 today. 10 x 101 milers needed for 101, 47 x 105s for 105. I've only done one double ton, don't see myself doing 199 more.....!

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

Hit 100 today. 10 x 101 milers needed for 101, 47 x 105s for 105. I've only done one double ton, don't see myself doing 199 more.....!

You have my sympathy.  It took me three years to move from E100 to E103 and then just two to get from E103 to E113. 

[jefmcg]

Hit 100 today. 10 x 101 milers needed for 101, 47 x 105s for 105. I've only done one double ton, don't see myself doing 199 more.....!

Is that using my page?  Coincidently I updated last week (following the complaint of another 3-digit rider) so it tells you how many rides for the next 3 distances as well as the impossible remote goals.  (eg 101, 102, 103, then 105)

[Wowbagger]

Today's ride of 81.65 miles slots in at no. 38 in my all-time list. I have now completed 69 rides in excess of 71 miles.

[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.

I noticed my e-number had hit 101 today. So I finally sat down with the box of brevet cards from 2005-2011 and made strava manual ride entries for all the 200km+ rides.
With those included... E = 118. 

I only need 3 more 200km to hit 120, but it's going to take a very long time to move  the needle much beyond that.


EDIT - an interesting observation is RAAM (the race itself, not the training) is not doing diddly squat for my E number: we averaged 115 miles per tandem per day...

[BobScarle]

Put all of my rides into a database and now I can work it out properly (I think).

mysql> select count(*) from rides where mileage > 63;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|       63 |
+----------+

mysql> select count(*) from rides where mileage > 64;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|       61 |
+----------+

mysql> select count(*) from rides where mileage > 62;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|       68 |
+----------+

mysql> select enumber();
+-----------+
| enumber() |
+-----------+
|        63 |
+-----------+

Simple little stored function called enumber does all of the work for me.

Anyway, my Eddington number at the moment is 63 and I need another 3 rides of 64 or more miles to increase it.

[jamesld8]

Have you seen this though http://mcgalliard.org/eddington/

makes all working out done for you,

and I`m now 119 btw 

[woollypigs]

Mine is ten, need two rides more, above 11 to get to 11. Then it will become harder because my max distance atm is about 18 and I don't think I can keep at that for too many days in a row.

[marcusjb]

Using jefmcg's excellent web page, I sorted out the multi day stuff and have got to 115

But it will be hard work to get much more! EAch step will take multiple rides.

Good stuff though!

[Whitedown Man]

Using jefmcg's excellent web page, I sorted out the multi day stuff and have got to 115

But it will be hard work to get much more! EAch step will take multiple rides.

Good stuff though!

  A very impressive E no., and within sight of the Audax gold standard of 125 

Currently on 91 myself, with just 12 rides to get me to 100 so will hit that later this year. However, getting from 100 to 101 is going to take me pretty much an entire extra year (though harbouring optimistic hope that I might hit 101 whilst on LEL).

My other cunning plan is that my E=100 ride will be from home in S London out to Eddington Hill nr. Hungerford and back.

[ianrauk]

With last weekends ride, it took my number to 109.


Your imperial Eddington Number is 109.
You need to do 3 ride(s) of at least 110 to increase it to 110.
You need to do 13 ride(s) of at least 111 to increase it to 111.
You need to do 22 ride(s) of at least 112 to increase it to 112.
You need to do 44 ride(s) of at least 115 to increase it to 115.
You need to do 63 ride(s) of at least 120 to increase it to 120

Starting to get much harder now.

[marcusjb]

It really is a cruel measure:

You need to do 2 ride(s) of at least 116 to increase it to 116.
You need to do 7 ride(s) of at least 117 to increase it to 117.
You need to do 8 ride(s) of at least 118 to increase it to 118.
You need to do 12 ride(s) of at least 120 to increase it to 120.

[Nuncio]

As of last Sunday I have completed 100 rides* of 100 miles.

* simple** definition, where, for example, LEL = 1 ride of 100 miles plus.

** though I'm struggling to define it other than by the frinstance.

[ianrauk]

Another notch on the old Eddington bedpost

Now at 110.

Now it get's a bit difficult..
Your imperial Eddington Number is 110.
You need to do 10 ride(s) of at least 111 to increase it to 111.
You need to do 20 ride(s) of at least 112 to increase it to 112.
You need to do 24 ride(s) of at least 113 to increase it to 113.
You need to do 43 ride(s) of at least 115 to increase it to 115.

[woollypigs]

Mine is now 11 Two more rides above 12 to get to 12, slowly does it.

[thing1]

Last weekend finally got me to E=120.

Big bloody way still to go for 125 though

You need 3 more days (of 122 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 122
You need 6 more days (of 123 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 123
You need 9 more days (of 124 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 124
You need 21 more days (of 125 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 125

[Wowbagger]

The Dun Run on Sat/Sun took my Eddington number to 71. My 71st ride was 71.09 miles.

Such is the paucity of rides in the next chunk, it will take me only 9 >75 mile rides to push my E number to 75.

[jamesld8]

Last weekend finally got me to E=120.

Big bloody way still to go for 125 though

You need 3 more days (of 122 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 122
You need 6 more days (of 123 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 123
You need 9 more days (of 124 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 124
You need 21 more days (of 125 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 125

+1 on that too, I reached E=120 after a w/e 123 km ride but as you say a hell of a lot to ride to E=125 

[NeilH]

My (incomplete) attempt at the "Old Roads and Drove Roads" audax on Saturday was enough to bring my Eddington number up to 50.

It will be slow progress passing it up from here, though, as I have a lot of 50ish mile days of recreational riding with friends on my record; 13 rides required for E=55, and 26 rides required for E=60....

[drossall]

It's been pointed out to me that Veloviewer shows your Eddington number automatically



Unfortunately, I don't do Strava

And even if I did, no-one connected Huret Multitos to Strava, and so many of my early rides would be missing.

[mattc]

Last weekend finally got me to E=120.

Big bloody way still to go for 125 though

You need 3 more days (of 122 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 122
You need 6 more days (of 123 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 123
You need 9 more days (of 124 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 124
You need 21 more days (of 125 miles or more) to achieve an Eddington number of 125

If I were in your position, and had ridden 122 miles, I would try damn hard to find the extra 3!

[CrazyEnglishTriathlete]

In the last month have managed to tick over E115 - E116, but also now have E= 504f (furlongs).

I need another 19 rides of 125 miles or more to reach E = 125, although pedantically, 124.3 miles is just over 200km, so E = 124 will do that and I only need 17 rides of 124 miles or more.  At current rate of progress E = 125 will be another three years.  However, if it's any consolation, the furlong number is also difficult to shift.  To get a 9 point improvement in the furlong Eddington I will need another 38 rides of 63.9 miles (513 furlongs or more).

However, did have the satisfaction of passing Jack Hobbs record of 197 centuries in first class cricket with my 198th lifetime century cycle ride last week.  I've now decided to keep up with snooker players scoring centuries on the professional circuit, but with Ronnie O'Sullivan in the 700s and still potting I don't think I will ahead on that list.

(reluctant accountant - has lifelong fascination with numbers and an aversion to process)

[Deano]

127

I don't think I'll go much higher than that - 16 more to get to 130, 76 more to get to 150...

[Whitedown Man]

Six months and five days after hitting E=100 I've finally reached E=101, all the time cursing every ride in the past when I'd climbed off the bike the moment I passed 100 miles.

Next major target now E=125, all being well about two years away.

[beardy.biker]

Mine is 32, mostly achieved this year. But a lot of my riding is done off road