Silly Commuter Stats

hambones

I must admit I had been wondering when you were ever going to break through the 5,000 barrier!!!

cjcp

@Hambones - you should be on your way out for your ride shortly, shouldn't you?

hambones

cjcp wrote:

@Hambones - you should be on your way out for your ride shortly, shouldn't you?

Good point CJ and I considered doing a gentle 10 miles or so but I ended up doing 120 yesterday and it's fair to say I could do with a bit of a rest!

cjcp

hambones wrote:

cjcp wrote:

@Hambones - you should be on your way out for your ride shortly, shouldn't you?

Good point CJ and I considered doing a gentle 10 miles or so but I ended up doing 120 yesterday and it's fair to say I could do with a bit of a rest!

:shock:

I rode the deli on Saturday. That was 0.7 miles (there and back). Then I did 3.5 miles to the LBS. I was knackered yesterday.

I don't know how you guys keep this mileage up. My legs are goosed by the weekend. Chapeau.

WesternWay

salsajake wrote:

Finally back above average - you lot at the top aren't make it easy!

Ain't that the truth, and the gaps you have to overcome to get a place are ridiculous :-)

rolf_f

hambones wrote:

I must admit I had been wondering when you were ever going to break through the 5,000 barrier!!!

Oooff! That's a bit harsh - I only cracked 4000 a month back; I'm doing my best

salsajake wrote:

Finally back above average - you lot at the top aren't make it easy!

Everybody is upping the average - whether they are above you or below you. If you can't put the miles in.......

The Running Man

I was talking over dinner with SWMBO last night about energy management : she is interested in things like that ; or at least I tell myself she is .......

Anyway I left the office yesterday evening absolutely sure I was just going to have a quiet potter home. I'd done a hard 103 hilly miles on Sunday (over 1000mtrs of climbing) and I'd done another 21 into a stiff headwind in the morning and my legs were really sore.

No sooner had I got moving down London Road I found myself hammering along. Ok I thought I'll stick with it til the wheels come off which I was sure they inevitably would and THEN I'd potter home.

Just under an hour and a half and 27 miles later I pulled up at our house having sustained the effort all the way.

So : where did the energy and the effort come from? Is there a different part of brain that engages or something? I really don't understand why that happens?

:? :? :?

will3

The Running Man wrote:

So : where did the energy and the effort come from?

I think the clue is here:

The Running Man wrote:

and I'd done another 21 into a stiff headwind in the morning

Wallace1492

Well, this will be worst month for me since January. However, I am happy in the knowledge that my 38 miles on Easter Island will be the most enjoyable of this year, and maybe any other year. Just a pity 51 hours on a plane and days of travelling to and from airports including one unscheduled overnighter at an airport was included.

However, cycling round a corner and seeing the 15 giant Moai at Tongariki was simply awesome. I dare anyone to better that.

salsajake

Wallace1492 wrote:

Well, this will be worst month for me since January. However, I am happy in the knowledge that my 38 miles on Easter Island will be the most enjoyable of this year, and maybe any other year. Just a pity 51 hours on a plane and days of travelling to and from airports including one unscheduled overnighter at an airport was included.

However, cycling round a corner and seeing the 15 giant Moai at Tongariki was simply awesome. I dare anyone to better that.

very cool - low on quantity but high on quality! was getting around by bike a good idea - did you hire them locally?

Wallace1492

salsajake wrote:

Wallace1492 wrote:

Well, this will be worst month for me since January. However, I am happy in the knowledge that my 38 miles on Easter Island will be the most enjoyable of this year, and maybe any other year. Just a pity 51 hours on a plane and days of travelling to and from airports including one unscheduled overnighter at an airport was included.

However, cycling round a corner and seeing the 15 giant Moai at Tongariki was simply awesome. I dare anyone to better that.

very cool - low on quantity but high on quality! was getting around by bike a good idea - did you hire them locally?

Hired locally. For here, not the best bikes, needed a little oil, chain cleaned, and tyres pumped up a little but absolutely fine for the remotest island in the world. There is no real hard stuff that I found. Just some vocanic ash red dirt roads leading round the island, and came back via the main tarred road, climbing to about 300mts (highest point on island is 500mtrs). Had huge grin on me all the way.... Perfect Eclipse the day before too. Bike was by far the best way to travel, see so much, and not big distances. Threw in a bit of biking in the Atacama desert a few days later in an area that had not seen rain in about.... let me see 100 years or so..... so coming from west of Scotland was perfect training...

salsajake

OK, who around the 60 mark has just banged in loads of miles (probably somewhere north of 300)? Yesterday I was 58th, with 270 miles to make up to 57th, now I am 59th, 250 miles below 58th.

Who is the perpetrator of this outrage

WesternWay

salsajake wrote:

OK, who around the 60 mark has just banged in loads of miles (probably somewhere north of 300)? Yesterday I was 58th, with 270 miles to make up to 57th, now I am 59th, 250 miles below 58th.

Who is the perpetrator of this outrage

I went from 54 to 55 in a similar fashion.

I simply don't understand why other people insist on posting mileage, it is really inconvenient

salsajake

I don't mind the posting of miles, just not bulk postings of 100s of miles at once! So if whoever it was passed you too, they must have posted at least 350 miles at once. Then again, the gaps are much smaller around 55th than ahead of me, so you might have been passed by someone who was updating in normal fashion.

pangolin

Sorry! Finished Lands End to John O'Groats on Sunday and posted miles yesterday, jumped from mid 70's to 47th.

salsajake

In that case you are forgiven - a mighty chapeau!

itboffin

Rather disappointed that i've failed to reach my july target by one week and a missing weekend, was planning another 1k

WesternWay

pangolin wrote:

Sorry! Finished Lands End to John O'Groats on Sunday and posted miles yesterday, jumped from mid 70's to 47th.

Fantastic :-) How was it?

pangolin

Cheers salsajake.

WesternWay, it was really good thanks. Did it in 9 days which I was pretty happy with, but if I did it again I would take longer (preferably 2-3 weeks) so it wasn't such a rush and there would be time to look around etc.

Got rained on 2 days, Only 1 day with noticeable headwind, no punctures, no mechanicals, camped twice and stayed with friends twice, b&b's the rest.

Did it solo but rode with a couple of other guys on day 5 as they happened to be doing the same route.

Didn't really train other than commute to work (20 miles round trip) but found that after day 3 the muscles stop complaining. Cornwall and Devon were pretty painful. Last 2 or 3 days my achilles were hurting, probably because I had the gearing all wrong. Was using a double from a road bike on a loaded tourer, which meant I had to stand up for steep hills.

All in all though, great fun. If you haven't done it, do it. Don't rush it unless you have to because of lack of holiday etc.

cjcp

Excellent! Do you have a link to your route, and what was your favourite pat?

WesternWay

pangolin wrote:

Cheers salsajake.
Didn't really train other than commute to work (20 miles round trip) but found that after day 3 the muscles stop complaining. Cornwall and Devon were pretty painful. Last 2 or 3 days my achilles were hurting, probably because I had the gearing all wrong. Was using a double from a road bike on a loaded tourer, which meant I had to stand up for steep hills.

All in all though, great fun. If you haven't done it, do it. Don't rush it unless you have to because of lack of holiday etc.

Wow, sounds fantastic.

You /must/ have done some more serious training though surely? I do a commute of a similar length to yours and frankly some days it is a bit difficult to get back on the bike :-)

I would love to do it one day and will keep in mind what you say about timing.

How many hours a day were you riding.

Excellent news on the lack of mechanicals.

George

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will3

I must apologise for my piss-poor performance this month. 'tis what comes of "holidays" and "taking it easy" and "work".

hambones

cjcp wrote:

Excellent! Do you have a link to your route, and what was your favourite pat?

+1

Planning on doing LEJOG next May with 2 others (so far!) and our current planned route is approx. 970 miles (8 days).

WesternWay

Well that was a good (for me) month.

700 miles and all is well

Could you all please stop riding for a bit though, I am going on holiday with my family and I don't want to be left even further behind.

Clever Pun

cjcp wrote:

Excellent! Do you have a link to your route, and what was your favourite pat?

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Clever Pun

In other news look like I'm on for my highest month so far...

rolf_f

Clever Pun wrote:

In other news look like I'm on for my highest month so far...

I shall report back tomorrow or on Sunday. If I'm still capable of typing by then. It has been a mileageliscious month.......

asprilla

Clever Pun wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Excellent! Do you have a link to your route, and what was your favourite pat?

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Obviously.

/Trying to think of a convoluted gag about setting a new PB.

MonkeyMonster

You're 'butchering' the opposition...

salsajake

there goes my appetite