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Chuffy

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Eddington Number - what's yours?
« on: 04 January, 2013, 06:45:40 pm »
This explains what it is:- http://tlatet.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/eddington-number.html

Can anyone on here break 100?  :thumbsup:
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Re: Eddington Number - what's yours?
« Reply #1 on: 04 January, 2013, 07:03:54 pm »
I refer the hon. memb. to this thread.

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=60586.0

Several YACFers have Eddington Numbers over 100.
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Chuffy

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Re: Eddington Number - what's yours?
« Reply #2 on: 04 January, 2013, 07:13:03 pm »
Ah. I don't stroll beyond this sub-forum, hence my ignorance.
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Re: Eddington Number - what's yours?
« Reply #3 on: 04 January, 2013, 08:49:46 pm »
An Eddignton number of 126 is not uncommon amongst audaxers.

My target for 2012 was to get mine equal to my age... Just made it.

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Re: Eddington Number - what's yours?
« Reply #4 on: 04 January, 2015, 08:44:35 am »
I gotta 133, but that's likely to stay at that level unless I do more 300 s, or ride extra distance on 200s, for no reason other than a bigger Eddington...

Nah, sod that  ;D ;D ;D

I'd be better off riding more 600s, which would up the Edd, and I'd never get to the point when they ran out...
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Re: Eddington Number - what's yours?
« Reply #5 on: 04 January, 2015, 10:50:15 am »
I gotta 133, but that's likely to stay at that level unless I do more 300 s, or ride extra distance on 200s, for no reason other than a bigger Eddington...

Nah, sod that  ;D ;D ;D

I'd be better off riding more 600s, which would up the Edd, and I'd never get to the point when they ran out...

Damn right you wouldn't! As mentioned elsewhere E numbers are based on days not rides. An E (km) number of 600 would mean at least 600 days on which you rode at least 600 km !!!  :o :o :o

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Re: Eddington Number - what's yours?
« Reply #6 on: 04 January, 2015, 11:35:06 am »
Oh whoops !!  :sick:
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Re: Eddington Number - what's yours?
« Reply #7 on: 04 January, 2015, 01:28:36 pm »
I gotta 133, but that's likely to stay at that level unless I do more 300 s, or ride extra distance on 200s, for no reason other than a bigger Eddington...

Nah, sod that  ;D ;D ;D

I'd be better off riding more 600s, which would up the Edd, and I'd never get to the point when they ran out...

Damn right you wouldn't! As mentioned elsewhere E numbers are based on days not rides. An E (km) number of 600 would mean at least 600 days on which you rode at least 600 km !!!  :o :o :o

That's what makes it a bit iffy for audax riders. An audax riders' definition of day is a bit different from anyone else.
When I stick to the audax definition of day I have an imperial Eddington of 140, a metric of 202. Logging PBP, LEL etc. as 4 or 5 seperate dayrides, all well over 200km will of course give an Eddington of well over 150 (imperial)

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Re: Eddington Number - what's yours?
« Reply #8 on: 05 January, 2015, 12:17:46 pm »
I gotta 133, but that's likely to stay at that level unless I do more 300 s, or ride extra distance on 200s, for no reason other than a bigger Eddington...

Nah, sod that  ;D ;D ;D

I'd be better off riding more 600s, which would up the Edd, and I'd never get to the point when they ran out...

Damn right you wouldn't! As mentioned elsewhere E numbers are based on days not rides. An E (km) number of 600 would mean at least 600 days on which you rode at least 600 km !!!  :o :o :o

That's what makes it a bit iffy for audax riders. An audax riders' definition of day is a bit different from anyone else.
When I stick to the audax definition of day I have an imperial Eddington of 140, a metric of 202. Logging PBP, LEL etc. as 4 or 5 seperate dayrides, all well over 200km will of course give an Eddington of well over 150 (imperial)

I have the same problem as Ivo.  As I haven't had a GPS then for most 400s, and all longer events I've no accurate figure of what was done up to 11:59:59pm and what was done after 12:00:00 - so I stuck to a definition of a single event (up to PBP, Mille Miglia) being one ride, but a multi-day trip (such as my trip to the Alps) being separate rides.  Sir Arthur Eddington probably didn't consider this conundrum when establishing his rule.  E-Numbers are 109 imperial, 156 metric counting muti-day Audaxes as one day and would be approximately 120 and 162 hazarding a guess at how the multi-day events split out.  You can do Eddington numbers in any units - so a goal for 2016 is to reach E=500furlongs  (almost exactly 100km), although splitting multi-day Audaxes I would be fairly close to it already.
Eddington Numbers 130 (imperial), 182 (metric) 571 (furlongs)  114 (nautical miles)

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Re: Eddington Number - what's yours?
« Reply #9 on: 05 January, 2015, 12:22:33 pm »
Will there be a record for the highest Eddington Number in a single year!!!
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Eddington Number - what's yours?
« Reply #10 on: 05 January, 2015, 12:36:10 pm »
Steve.

200 200's or a bit more.

220 220's, I'd wager.