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  • mkirby
    mkirby Posts: 365
    The gap is how far behind the person above you you are. Small gaps are good as they are easier to jump.
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    How nuts was that? Cold, wet, windy, dark after the first couple of miles, yet I've zig-zagged home through a tortuous route across the wilds of Oxfordshire & Bucks to add just 5 additional miles to catch & pass wyadvd. And then I see that the gap to Barry K is only another 0.4 miles. Gnnnn. I could have been 35th now if only...

    The Gap is a Bad Thing, I'm starting to think. It's too tempting, just another mile sir, just a teensy little mile sir, go on, just that teeny bit extra. And then you spot someone else, just tantalisingly close as well. <wanders off grumbling...>
  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    CiB wrote:
    The Gap is a Bad Thing, I'm starting to think. It's too tempting, just another mile sir, just a teensy little mile sir, go on, just that teeny bit extra. And then you spot someone else, just tantalisingly close as well. <wanders off grumbling...>

    Is it just me or does that sound like you're checking the stats table as you are cycling? I think we have finally arrived at taking it too far.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    CiB wrote:
    How nuts was that? Cold, wet, windy, dark after the first couple of miles, yet I've zig-zagged home through a tortuous route across the wilds of Oxfordshire & Bucks to add just 5 additional miles to catch & pass wyadvd. And then I see that the gap to Barry K is only another 0.4 miles. Gnnnn. I could have been 35th now if only...

    The Gap is a Bad Thing, I'm starting to think. It's too tempting, just another mile sir, just a teensy little mile sir, go on, just that teeny bit extra. And then you spot someone else, just tantalisingly close as well. <wanders off grumbling...>

    An I used to think you woz nails, a 'very' small piece of me just died inside :lol:
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    CiB wrote:
    How nuts was that? Cold, wet, windy, dark after the first couple of miles, yet I've zig-zagged home through a tortuous route across the wilds of Oxfordshire & Bucks to add just 5 additional miles to catch & pass wyadvd. And then I see that the gap to Barry K is only another 0.4 miles. Gnnnn. I could have been 35th now if only...

    The Gap is a Bad Thing, I'm starting to think. It's too tempting, just another mile sir, just a teensy little mile sir, go on, just that teeny bit extra. And then you spot someone else, just tantalisingly close as well. <wanders off grumbling...>

    Won't be any easier in the summer either. Everyone will do more miles with the long evenings, so we'll all be trying to explain to our OHs just why exactly we're arriving home at 10pm. Every night.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    cjcp wrote:
    CiB wrote:
    How nuts was that? Cold, wet, windy, dark after the first couple of miles, yet I've zig-zagged home through a tortuous route across the wilds of Oxfordshire & Bucks to add just 5 additional miles to catch & pass wyadvd. And then I see that the gap to Barry K is only another 0.4 miles. Gnnnn. I could have been 35th now if only...

    The Gap is a Bad Thing, I'm starting to think. It's too tempting, just another mile sir, just a teensy little mile sir, go on, just that teeny bit extra. And then you spot someone else, just tantalisingly close as well. <wanders off grumbling...>

    Won't be any easier in the summer either. Everyone will do more miles with the long evenings, so we'll all be trying to explain to our OHs just why exactly we're arriving home at 10pm. Every night.

    10pm I wish :(
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    Is it just me or does that sound like you're checking the stats table as you are cycling? I think we have finally arrived at taking it too far.

    I'm going to invent the Garmin Edge with SCS (with live updates) - that'll fix everyone. We'll all be cycling endlessly, desperately trying to defend our positions, all scared to get off our bikes.

    On the bright side, we'll probably be first in the TdF.....
    Faster than a tent.......
  • hambones
    hambones Posts: 407
    Ah bliss - I've just got in after a sneaky 38 mile night ride that has seen me BURST through the 700 barrier (well OK by 1.1 miles!) :D

    (btw my earlier 'moment' regarding an inability to update rides has passed - it was merely down to me being dim!)
    Still breathing.....
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    hambones wrote:
    Ah bliss - I've just got in after a sneaky 38 mile night ride that has seen me BURST through the 700 barrier (well OK by 1.1 miles!) :D

    (btw my earlier 'moment' regarding an inability to update rides has passed - it was merely down to me being dim!)
    Most computer issues are down to user dimness :P
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  • lastant
    lastant Posts: 526
    -null- wrote:
    Most computer issues are down to user dimness :P

    Yep, always worth telling the person with the problem that they're either subject to the 'eye-dee ten-tee' (ID10T) error or that there's a PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair).

    Still to find someone that twigs what I'm saying...
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  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    lastant wrote:
    -null- wrote:
    Most computer issues are down to user dimness :P

    Yep, always worth telling the person with the problem that they're either subject to the 'eye-dee ten-tee' (ID10T) error or that there's a PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair).

    Still to find someone that twigs what I'm saying...

    PICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    cjcp wrote:
    Won't be any easier in the summer either. Everyone will do more miles with the long evenings, so we'll all be trying to explain to our OHs just why exactly we're arriving home at 10pm. Every night.
    ...which suggests that I'm not alone in not being entirely up-front about my reasons for being out on the bike whenever possible; i.e. to stack up more miles and thereby stay ahead in a meaningless stats table against a bunch of blokes who I've never heard of, let alone met. Are some of us more open and honest with our OHs then?

    It was worse when I was doing the rewrite late last year - it felt like hiding an internet pr0n habit* sometimes, pretending to be just knocking up an app for my own benefit.

    *I expect.
  • R_T_A
    R_T_A Posts: 488
    Sorry - too busy trying to catch up with everyone to type :evil:

    I also seem to be spending more time cleaning/servicing my bike than riding it at the moment.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    CiB wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    Won't be any easier in the summer either. Everyone will do more miles with the long evenings, so we'll all be trying to explain to our OHs just why exactly we're arriving home at 10pm. Every night.
    ...which suggests that I'm not alone in not being entirely up-front about my reasons for being out on the bike whenever possible; i.e. to stack up more miles and thereby stay ahead in a meaningless stats table against a bunch of blokes who I've never heard of, let alone met. Are some of us more open and honest with our OHs then?

    It was worse when I was doing the rewrite late last year - it felt like hiding an internet pr0n habit* sometimes, pretending to be just knocking up an app for my own benefit.

    *I expect.

    :lol:

    Mrs CJ knows I sometimes take a longer route home (tbh, the ride through Petersham and Ham can be a real balls-ache in rush hour) and that I do extra laps of the Park in the summer. Ostensibly, she thinks it's Marmotte training. She doesn't know that a top 10 finish in the Stats Table is the bigger goal...
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    lastant wrote:
    -null- wrote:
    Most computer issues are down to user dimness :P

    Yep, always worth telling the person with the problem that they're either subject to the 'eye-dee ten-tee' (ID10T) error or that there's a PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair).

    Still to find someone that twigs what I'm saying...

    If you want to be even more geeky, call it a "Layer 8 issue"
    As yet unnamed (Dolan Seta)
    Joelle (Focus Expert SRAM)
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Well it was a bit of an issue a couple of years back - I used to like to have a bit of a wander on the bike while cycling home and my wife used to wonder why I was getting home so late - never mind that she used to set me tedious tasks such as picking up "a bit of shopping" on the way home - try getting in and out of a major supermarket during rush hour inside an hour :evil: especially as did happen twice - some stupid bint locks her bike to yours. Twice!!!!

    Anyway - me and the wife have seperated now and I'm single again so I can do all the cycling I like - knees allowing. :D Not that I don't miss her like, but every cloud and all that.
  • benno68
    benno68 Posts: 1,689
    I've got to start getting my ar5e out of bed earlier - finding this SCS business quite hard and my legs aren't too pleased with me at the moment.

    My goal is to do 15 to 16 miles each way, which takes around an hour although I sometimes drop to 7 miles one way. One or two 25 mile runs a week would be nice but working from 10:30am to 9 or 10 pm 4 days out of 6 makes this difficult.

    I'll be pleased to hang around the 30th spot or thereabouts - on Sunday I am definitely doing no less than 50 miles - I have said that for the last 3 weeks though.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    cjcp wrote:

    Won't be any easier in the summer either. Everyone will do more miles with the long evenings, so we'll all be trying to explain to our OHs just why exactly we're arriving home at 10pm. Every night.

    and good for nothing as well... cause of course you've raced the entire way ragging yourself stupid :lol:
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    With the extra miles chucked in today I'm now 2 miles off the daily average. Whatever I get in on sunday will be a bonus to the weekly target and a few more places in the league.
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • nic_77
    nic_77 Posts: 929
    Finally I’m off the mark for February (it’s been a week of running errands before and after work so I needed the car)… wet commute this morning, but I was going crazy watching myself slip down the board!

    Have two rides scheduled for the weekend, which should bag me another 70 miles!

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    (first season riding SCS)
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  • The good doctor
    The good doctor Posts: 307
    The winter weather and my slack maintenance programme means my commuting bike needs a major overhaul, the cost of parts means I'd be better off replacing it, ideally with a single speed. In the meantime do I drive and slip down the table or use my CR1 which I'm loathe to do. Dilemma
  • salsajake
    salsajake Posts: 702
    I think we need a split thread now. One for people making talking about making progress, the other for people making excuses. I think I know which one will be longest (and which I will be spending most of my time in...)
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    I can add a new column - "Miles That I Would Have Done If...", and an Excuse Generator. That'll sort the men from the boys. :wink:
  • wgwarburton
    wgwarburton Posts: 1,863
    The good doctor wrote:
    ... my commuting bike needs a major overhaul, ...I'd be better off replacing it, ideally with a single speed. In the meantime do I drive and slip down the table or use my CR1 which I'm loathe to do. Dilemma

    Get fettling, man! Pop into your LBS at lunchtime and get new brake blocks and a chain, flip the chainring(s) to present new tooth faces and set the chain to a useable sprocket- if you have a threaded hub you could even grab a track-sprocket or SS freewheel while you're at the LBS.
    It'll keep you rolling and you can re-use the bits later on, if you do write off the commuter, so it's not money wasted. You've got the whole weekend to go, yet, havn't you... surely you can find an hour or so to knock the bike into something useable?
    Get a decent SS/FG for the summer and convert this bike into next year's winter hack!

    Cheers,
    W.
  • benno68
    benno68 Posts: 1,689
    CiB wrote:
    I can add a new column - "Miles That I Would Have Done If...", and an Excuse Generator. That'll sort the men from the boys. :wink:

    I would have done 16 miles in today but had to "limp" my partners car into the garage. Today is a right off, no cycling tomorrow either.
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    CiB wrote:
    I can add a new column - "Miles That I Would Have Done If...", and an Excuse Generator. That'll sort the men from the boys. :wink:
    ahem...and the women from the girls :P

    And now I know I'm becoming addicted to this. I just noticed I'm only 1.8 miles from overtaking the person above me. And I'm now wondering whether I could get the old BSO working and cycle a long round about 1.8 miles route to get lunch.
    Whippet
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Sorry -null-. I assume girls have girl's names, like SaraJ, and umm LiT, Buns etc. Point taken.

    1.8 miles is an easy distance - a boy's ride in fact - to get your lunch. You know what has to be done... Have you started going home via some stupid routes just to clock a few more miles up yet? I believe there are some on here who would admit to that. <coughs into sleeve>
  • wgwarburton
    wgwarburton Posts: 1,863
    CiB wrote:
    Sorry -null-. I assume girls have girl's names, like ... Buns etc. ...

    Buns is a bloke... :-)

    Cheers,
    W.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    That's me done for Feb. see you all in March, fresh legs and tanned :wink:
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • benno68
    benno68 Posts: 1,689
    CiB wrote:
    Have you started going home via some stupid routes just to clock a few more miles up yet? I believe there are some on here who would admit to that. <coughs into sleeve>

    I'm with you on that one CiB. I only live 3.5 miles or so from work and at least double that each way. Since this SCS lark has got my interest, I'm doing a couple of 16 milers if I can. I dunno how some guys do 20 miles or more day in day out though.

    I think many on here will agree that it's better to be on the bike than in the gym.
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