Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Audax => Topic started by: Climberruss on 23 June, 2015, 07:49:03 am
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07:48 and nothing. Given the early bath yesterday, this is indeed worrying.
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Not sure what time it went up, but there is a ride (135 miles) for Monday on Strava: https://app.strava.com/activities/331068945 ETA: but still (@8:05) no tracker for today. Maybe the breakfast buffet is taking a hammering?
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His tracker has woken up and sent a tweet.
https://twitter.com/yearrecord (https://twitter.com/yearrecord)
Go Steve
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Phew!
Go Steve!
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underway for ~20 minutes doing 18/19mph now :thumbsup:
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Mmm...52 mins in and he appears to have been stopped at Boston hospital for 15 mins...
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The track point has him equidistant from the hospital and the Premier Inn. PI do a rather good all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet. Just sayin'!
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Back on the move again (as of about 30 minutes ago). A 50 minute stop has more of a feel of a Premier Inn Breakfast than a Hospital visit.
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The track point has him equidistant from the hospital and the Premier Inn. PI do a rather good all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet. Just sayin'!
Resolution is everything. If I had zoomed in, I would have realized! ::-)
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50 minutes for breakfast, after an 8am start and within less than an hour sounds awfully leisurely
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Without him telling us, there's no knowing why he had such a short day yesterday. Maybe he just felt crap? It happens, even to supermen like Steve, I would imagine.
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Well, he's heading north atm - further away from base. No overnight planned as far as I know - unless he is going to Hoppo's
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Heading South again now after visiting Kirton in
FboabLindsey
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such a short day yesterday. ... even to supermen like Steve
That we judge a 200+ day as a short day shows how high the bar is.
Allez Steve
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such a short day yesterday. ... even to supermen like Steve
That we judge a 200+ day as a short day shows how high the bar is.
Allez Steve
Yes indeed. And today's newsletter implies that the goals may have subtly changed. Steve says he wants to beat Tommy's total - which, IIRC, was 100,000 miles in around 16 months - yet feels he's not in competition with Godwin (or with Kurt or, by implication, Miles). I get the impression Steve's working within his capability in order to get the highest mileage he can in the year, which may be less than Tommy's record, while on the way to that 100,000 total. Interesting! (And, of course, quite likely wrong!).
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such a short day yesterday. ... even to supermen like Steve
That we judge a 200+ day as a short day shows how high the bar is.
Allez Steve
I thought yesterday was only 132 miles?
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such a short day yesterday. ... even to supermen like Steve
That we judge a 200+ day as a short day shows how high the bar is.
Allez Steve
I thought yesterday was only 132 miles?
Indeed. Although it's more than 200km, and most people find that a long day in the saddle.
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Oh, I see. k instead of m.
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Very few countries use that antiquated measurement system nowadays and J is in Oz, which hasn't used it for many decades.
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Steve's website does.
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And yet it is still an absurd method of measurement.
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Not if you have been brought up with it and have to do calculations to understand the most common alternative.
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How long ago did Britain decide to go metric? Using 'grandfather doesn't understand anything new' as a reason to stick with a stupid system is absurd.
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It all makes sense in furlongs.
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How long ago did Britain decide to go metric? Using 'grandfather doesn't understand anything new' as a reason to stick with a stupid system is absurd.
Agreed. But Steve's website is a) talking about a record set in the olden days and b) using data aggregated by leftpondians so the use of miles makes a higher-than-usual degree of sense.
Anyway, you should all stop complaining. Whenever I see "km" out of the corner of my eye I think it's my name. It's very distracting.
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How long ago did Britain decide to go metric? Using 'grandfather doesn't understand anything new' as a reason to stick with a stupid system is absurd.
Agreed. But Steve's website is a) talking about a record set in the olden days and b) using data aggregated by leftpondians so the use of miles makes a higher-than-usual degree of sense.
Anyway, you should all stop complaining. Whenever I see "km" out of the corner of my eye I think it's my name. It's very distracting.
How do you think Miles Smith manages? Or Kilometer Jones?
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How long ago did Britain decide to go metric? Using 'grandfather doesn't understand anything new' as a reason to stick with a stupid system is absurd.
Britain has not adopted the kilometre as a measurement of road distance or speed. Steve is entirely correct in his use of miles as the appropriate unit. The fact that AUK, as a semi-detached outpost of a continental organisation, uses kilometres is an anomaly which we tolerate, even though we need not.
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How long ago did Britain decide to go metric?
What does that matter? The UK didn't decide to get rid of the mile.
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So the UK decided to go metric decades ago but didn't get rid of the mile. A bit mono-buttocked then.
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Miles are nice meaty measures. KMs are for wimps.
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Could always use rods poles and perches
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I hope you aren't fishing for a compliment.
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Two metric curiosities for you. Although Newbury racecourse runs its flat races in traditional distances (5 furlongs through to 2 miles) the actual distances are measured in meters (1000m to 3200m)
And. For those people who swear that the old units are the best. Ask them how much a gallon of water weighs. It is about the only thing in the imperial system that has some sort of arithmetic logic to it. In my experience very few anti-metric people know the answer.
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Two metric curiosities for you. Although Newbury racecourse runs its flat races in traditional distances (5 furlongs through to 2 miles) the actual distances are measured in meters (1000m to 3200m)
And. For those people who swear that the old units are the best. Ask them how much a gallon of water weighs. It is about the only thing in the imperial system that has some sort of arithmetic logic to it. In my experience very few anti-metric people know the answer.
My guess would be a "hundred-weight"?
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Ask yourself how many litres a gallon is, and how many grammes a pound is.
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And. For those people who swear that the old units are the best. Ask them how much a gallon of water weighs. It is about the only thing in the imperial system that has some sort of arithmetic logic to it. In my experience very few anti-metric people know the answer.
US or UK gallon....
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Ten pounds.
So a pint is a pound anna quarter.
(all this side of the pond)
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16oz = 1lb
20 fl oz = 1 pint
8 pints to a gallon
Leap of faith / presume that 1 fl oz of water weighs 1 oz.
Tim's presumably therefore on the button.
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Tim is indeed correct, and this is one of the few examples that I can think of where it isn't "bigger" in the USA - an American "pint" is 16oz, or only 80% of a proper pint.
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And of course the metricated Aussies play a bit of cricket. The pitch is 22 yards long, or 1 chain. There are 10 of those to a furlong (that's the metric bit) and 80 to a mile.
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We can't adopt kilometres, it'd screw up everyone's Eddington number.
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We can't adopt kilometres, it'd screw up everyone's Eddington number.
A metric Eddington is simply not cricket!!
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Is the off-topic distance of this thread best measured in miles, kilometres or lightyears?
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I'd go for Parsecs
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Might it be more appropriate to measure off-trackedness as an angular amount ?
Degrees or radians ?
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Gibbon-metres.
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Gibbon-metres.
Not Gibbon-miles? :demon:
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Smoots
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Tim is indeed correct, and this is one of the few examples that I can think of where it isn't "bigger" in the USA - an American "pint" is 16oz, or only 80% of a proper pint.
Slightly more than 80% - their fl oz are bigger :)
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Smoots
Good call.
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How splendid. I'd never heard of a Smoot, despite having spent much time in Boston.
That he went on to be the President of the ISO is perfect.