Silly Commuter Stats

Paul E

cjcp wrote:

Paul E wrote:

Just signed up, just recovering from a bad bout of asthma so my total will rise when I start commuting and when I do my training runs on a sunday.

Nasty. Good luck with the recovery.

Cheers, wasn't helped by my new GP not really knowing how severe it can get, I'm on the right stuff inhaler wise again now so I should be back upto speed in no time.

CiB

Neat - four of us on 890 miles. It's a bit tight mid-table.

Checking the Cuml Gap col last night before leaving, I need 24 miles to get into the top 50. Get home after 24.1 (with a bit of weaving around the lanes & villages to get there) and find a load of oiks around me have added miles already, negating the additional effort. This is going to get serious I sense, even down in 48th place.

Rich158

Woooohhhoooo that's 1000 for March, still in 3rd place though :twisted:

itboffin

Rich158 wrote:

Woooohhhoooo that's 1000 for March, still in 3rd place though :twisted:

get in!
Chapeau sir, I'll be joining you by Sat. Morning

so who's up for 1000 ml in April

wgwarburton

CiB wrote:

Neat - four of us on 890 miles. It's a bit tight mid-table.

Checking the Cuml Gap col last night before leaving, I need 24 miles to get into the top 50. Get home after 24.1 (with a bit of weaving around the lanes & villages to get there) and find a load of oiks around me have added miles already, negating the additional effort. This is going to get serious I sense, even down in 48th place.

Yeah, there seems to be about fifteen people vying for the last five places in the top fifty!

Anyone going to be off over Easter?

No... thought not :-(

Cheers,
W.

Kallaen

How do you keep riding so much!? I really don't understand how.
If I just get near about 600km (372,9 miles) for a month I'm pleased with what I've achieved for that month. I'm working on to get some more kms ridden though.
I've had trouble getting just 200km (124,3 miles) in a week, I can do that now however.

hambones

Kallaen wrote:

How do you keep riding so much!? I really don't understand how.
If I just get near about 600km (372,9 miles) for a month I'm pleased with what I've achieved for that month. I'm working on to get some more kms ridden though.
I've had trouble getting just 200km (124,3 miles) in a week, I can do that now however.

You think this is alot - Will3 would be almost 1000 miles behind the leader of the CycleChat equivalent of SC Stats!!!!

wgwarburton

Kallaen wrote:

How do you keep riding so much!? I really don't understand how.
If I just get near about 600km (372,9 miles) for a month I'm pleased with what I've achieved for that month. I'm working on to get some more kms ridden though.
I've had trouble getting just 200km (124,3 miles) in a week, I can do that now however.

Either they are all completely nuts, or they are lying... I think the former's more likely, TBH.

It's down to making the time... bear in mind, too, that you're looking at a couple of dozen slightly obsessive cyclists, out of a pretty big population, egging each other on. One of the things about the internet is the way it allows like-minded groups to get together.
I don't know how many cyclists there are in the UK, but probably a big proportion of them have access to the 'net- there are over 175,000 registered users on BikeRadar.
Out of that 175,000 there are only 140 who've joined the Stats league, and only a dozen of them are logging over 600 miles/month...

I don't know what percentage of the population has some shade of obsessive-compulsive disorder... might be interesting to find out :-) :-) :-)

That's what I'm telling myself, anyway...

Cheers,
W.

will3

hambones wrote:

Kallaen wrote:

How do you keep riding so much!? I really don't understand how.
If I just get near about 600km (372,9 miles) for a month I'm pleased with what I've achieved for that month. I'm working on to get some more kms ridden though.
I've had trouble getting just 200km (124,3 miles) in a week, I can do that now however.

You think this is alot - Will3 would be almost 1000 miles behind the leader of the CycleChat equivalent of SC Stats!!!!

I sits on my bike and I pedals.

Actually the more you do it, the easier it gets. The main restriction is time as I do have other things to do besides cycling! If you've ever gone on a long tour you'll know that eventually you just get into the rhythm of "get up, get on bike, pedal all day, get off, sleep, repeat" It easily becomes the norm!

Hambones, 1000 miles eh? Hmmmm .........let's see now, if I hadn't lost 300 miles at the start of the year to flu, if I'd managed to get out on the weekends more than once so far this year,........

Clever Pun

cheers for that Buns

The missus has already called herself a cycling widow...

Kallaen

WGWarburton wrote:

I don't know how many cyclists there are in the UK, but probably a big proportion of them have access to the 'net- there are over 175,000 registered users on BikeRadar.
Out of that 175,000 there are only 140 who've joined the Stats league, and only a dozen of them are logging over 600 miles/month...

Well that's interesting thinking. But it's quite fascinating that they can keep logging it, if it's the true milage and not lying.

will3 wrote:

you just get into the rhythm of "get up, get on bike, pedal all day, get off, sleep, repeat" It easily becomes the norm!

I've experienced that when commuting by bike, it becomes something you love and you just keep doing it, even though you might should listen to your body and restiturate. Atleast that what happends to me. :P

CiB

Off on a bit of tangent, how many of us tell our OH's that we're involved in this chuffing nonsense? I've almost told my OH a couple of times that my fiddling about on the computer has resulted in <Ta daaaah> THIS - points at SC Stats - but I've bottled it, on the basis that it really is a bit of overkill bordering on OCD when viewed rationally. Is it just me with a dirty little secret, beavering away at it from time to time and doing the miles just to do the miles sometimes, and in the process maybe letting her think I might have internet pr0n habit and a bit on the side in the next but one village?

asprilla

WGWarburton wrote:

CiB wrote:

Neat - four of us on 890 miles. It's a bit tight mid-table.

Checking the Cuml Gap col last night before leaving, I need 24 miles to get into the top 50. Get home after 24.1 (with a bit of weaving around the lanes & villages to get there) and find a load of oiks around me have added miles already, negating the additional effort. This is going to get serious I sense, even down in 48th place.

Yeah, there seems to be about fifteen people vying for the last five places in the top fifty!

Anyone going to be off over Easter?

No... thought not :-(

Cheers,
W.

Me, I'm having time off so I guess I'll be back in the 60s upon my return.

Clever Pun

I'm using the daily mile so see sees those and I've said things liek I want to hit 7000 miles for the year and 621 miles this month etc

not mentioned this specifically... you can only go so far

Rich158

itboffin wrote:

Rich158 wrote:

Woooohhhoooo that's 1000 for March, still in 3rd place though :twisted:

get in!
Chapeau sir, I'll be joining you by Sat. Morning

so who's up for 1000 ml in April

Oh go on then I'll just have to join you. Mind you it might be a challenge, only 18 commuting days due to an extended easter break, plus the club reliability run and a sportive only add up to about 980, it might be time to pull out the extended commute.

OCD you say WCW, what me, never

suzyb

meh I'm giving up with the stats. I'll continue to track them and see where I end up at the end of the year but it's pointless me trying to catch anyone or any specific position.

Kallaen

suzyb wrote:

meh I'm giving up with the stats. I'll continue to track them and see where I end up at the end of the year but it's pointless me trying to catch anyone or any specific position.

Well then it can't really be used to motivate you to drive further?

Rich158

suzyb wrote:

meh I'm giving up with the stats. I'll continue to track them and see where I end up at the end of the year but it's pointless me trying to catch anyone or any specific position.

That's the problem with the stats, they are unfairly biased in favour of anyone with a longer commute than you. They are however a bit of pointless fun, and a chance to wind up those close to you

R_T_A

suzyb wrote:

meh I'm giving up with the stats. I'll continue to track them and see where I end up at the end of the year but it's pointless me trying to catch anyone or any specific position.

I think the atmosphere has got a lot more competitive this year, but it depends on how you view it. Personally I'm not really paying that much attention to where I am in the league (apart from the traditional male posturing ).

attica

Ahem!

R_T_A wrote:

Dammit Attica, stop jumping over me :evil:

I've got 10 miles until 1000, so will hit that on the way home.

I can't believe I got 12th place last year, and here I am struggling to keep in the top 40

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Porgy

suzyb wrote:

meh I'm giving up with the stats. I'll continue to track them and see where I end up at the end of the year but it's pointless me trying to catch anyone or any specific position.

You think you've got it bad - I haven't even got a bl**dy bike at the moment - still in the Top 10 - just - but I'm dropping fast.

gert_lush

CiB wrote:

Off on a bit of tangent, how many of us tell our OH's that we're involved in this chuffing nonsense? I've almost told my OH a couple of times that my fiddling about on the computer has resulted in <Ta daaaah> THIS - points at SC Stats - but I've bottled it, on the basis that it really is a bit of overkill bordering on OCD when viewed rationally. Is it just me with a dirty little secret, beavering away at it from time to time and doing the miles just to do the miles sometimes, and in the process maybe letting her think I might have internet pr0n habit and a bit on the side in the next but one village?

My GF and house mates already know I'm stupid so its ok I have had my excel spreadsheet (with graphs :oops: ) for a few years now, which are a bit like the online stats but break it down into the different bikes I use, HR, av speeds etc and also how many miles chains etc have done. Geektastic. Although they have questioned why I need to have my own spreadsheet and add them online...."its all about feeling included..and not competition "

gert_lush

Oh and well Done to RICH for getting the 1000 mark with days to spare!!! and to the other 3 which I assume will be joining the exclusive club over the next few days, Chapeau to you all.

I am hoping to get a 1000 mile month in later in year...stop making me want to try next month ITB!!

holybinch

Well I have a lot of interest in the stats, but for me it's mainly related to commuting.

The miles I do at the weekend are limited, I don't want to do just garbage miles, but raise my fitness level (no cycling from October till February sucks, as well as starting smoking again)
Now that I'm off the fags (and the cigarettes too) I know it will ramp up soon, and I should be able to put the odd century at the weekend.

Aiming on an average of 150/week. And a top 50 finish!
Get in there!

(oh, and Canny Jock, if you think I didn't see what you did, you're wrong. Very wrong!)

R_T_A

Attica wrote:

Ahem!

R_T_A wrote:

Dammit Attica, stop jumping over me :evil:

I've got 10 miles until 1000, so will hit that on the way home.

I can't believe I got 12th place last year, and here I am struggling to keep in the top 40

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

**Cough**

R_T_A wrote:

I think the atmosphere has got a lot more competitive this year, but it depends on how you view it. Personally I'm not really paying that much attention to where I am in the league (apart from the traditional male posturing ).

@CiB - the wife still believes we're saving money from me commuting by bike. I'll think we'll leave it at that

5milestogo

Asprilla wrote;
"Ok, so I jsut have to add 2 miles to my commute and the gap will be maintained?
Why didn't you say so?"

I thought those extra laps round RP on the way home would have to come earlier than summer to get ahead. Also better can the holiday. Lets see where April takes us.

asprilla

5milestogo wrote:

Asprilla wrote;
"Ok, so I jsut have to add 2 miles to my commute and the gap will be maintained?
Why didn't you say so?"

I thought those extra laps round RP on the way home would have to come earlier than summer to get ahead. Also better can the holiday. Lets see where April takes us.

What's your name in the Stats?

cjcp

CiB wrote:

Off on a bit of tangent, how many of us tell our OH's that we're involved in this chuffing nonsense? I've almost told my OH a couple of times that my fiddling about on the computer has resulted in <Ta daaaah> THIS - points at SC Stats - but I've bottled it, on the basis that it really is a bit of overkill bordering on OCD when viewed rationally. Is it just me with a dirty little secret, beavering away at it from time to time and doing the miles just to do the miles sometimes, and in the process maybe letting her think I might have internet pr0n habit and a bit on the side in the next but one village?

I think Mrs CJ knows about the table in that it's an online means of recording miles; not so much the extent to which I deviate from the normal route to and from work...

cjcp

5milestogo wrote:

Asprilla wrote;
"Ok, so I jsut have to add 2 miles to my commute and the gap will be maintained?
Why didn't you say so?"

I thought those extra laps round RP on the way home would have to come earlier than summer to get ahead. Also better can the holiday. Lets see where April takes us.

The nightly training rides in RP have already started. There was a healthy stream of red and white lights just after the gates close. Looked pretty cool

prawny

Mrs prawny knows all about it because of all the moaning I was doing on paternity leave.

She just rolled her eyes when I told her I was going to escort my boss's boss's boss to work when he starts riding in because

a) I'm a licky brown nose that wants more money and,

b) he lives 10 miles the other side of town to me 40 mile ride to work anyone :twisted: