Silly Commuter Stats
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Oddjob62 wrote:Bah!!! This sodding snow better not settle. I don't do riding on ice... and i only just got the girl clean from the last bout of gritting
it's about the only chance I get to creep up the list! mind you I could just count club and MTB rides and that would do more!0 -
roger merriman wrote:it's about the only chance I get to creep up the list! mind you I could just count club and MTB rides and that would do more!
You should do... I think most of the top 20 would plummet if they could only log their (direct) commute. I would be only logging 30-35 miles a week if that was the case.0 -
CiB wrote:Gap is what you check just before leaving, to see what you'll gain by going some ridiculous route home just to add 4 more miles on. Quite effective it is too.
pfft who'd take this seriously enough to do that?Purveyor of sonic doom
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CiB wrote:
Well as he did come up with this idea in the first place I'd be inclined to look favourably upon pedalo miles, if only to see him on the news halfway across the Tasmanian Sea.Porgy wrote:WheezyMcChubby wrote:
do pedalo miles count? :shock:
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If it was strictly commuting miles only I reckon I'd be in the top 5 easy.
Increasingly coming to the conclusion though that as I enjoy weekend rides more but usually too knackered - that I take two days off Monday to Friday, use public transport, and go for long rides at weekend instead.
In fact it's what I'm doing this week. Bad weather can f*** it up though. As can unexpected commitments.0 -
Porgy wrote:In fact it's what I'm doing this week. Bad weather can f*** it up though. As can unexpected commitments.
I go to quite a few gigs.. I end up leaving work early and getting the train back into town, it's a pita just for the sake of a few extra miles... hmm actually 26 realistically.Purveyor of sonic doom
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Clever Pun wrote:Porgy wrote:In fact it's what I'm doing this week. Bad weather can f*** it up though. As can unexpected commitments.
I go to quite a few gigs.. I end up leaving work early and getting the train back into town, it's a pita just for the sake of a few extra miles... hmm actually 26 realistically.
I've cycled home from quite a few gigs over the years. The last time was a Fall gig in about 2005 - cycled from Kentish Town to Chislehurst at midnight, till about 2 in the morning, pis.sed, and half way home got really hungry, everything was shut, and my hangover started before I got home. And I had work the next day. Never again.0 -
jimmypippa wrote:Is this rural enough for a commute?
Don't try it.... we all know that's that little side road round the corner from Marble Arch. Always smells of KFC and tramp piss.0 -
Nope, but the cattle next to the kid's school smell a bit ripe.0
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Oddjob62 wrote:roger merriman wrote:it's about the only chance I get to creep up the list! mind you I could just count club and MTB rides and that would do more!
You should do... I think most of the top 20 would plummet if they could only log their (direct) commute. I would be only logging 30-35 miles a week if that was the case.
too much work as I just read off the cheap computer. and quite like just counting the town bike.0 -
Woot im 1st in the scary hairy northerners league
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Anyone for "hilly commutes"?
I'd suggest at least 500ft ascent in a day.
I would be quite high, but not at the top on that.0 -
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jimmypippa wrote:Anyone for "hilly commutes"?
I'd suggest at least 500ft ascent in a day.
Would that be 500ft ascent total (easy, do that most days) or 500ft between start point and finish point (I'd have to go 20miles just to find a hill that high)?0 -
JonGinge wrote:
Good work, sir. Six extended commutes in three days. Chapeau.cjcp wrote:<Struggles through front door. Drinks a For Goodness Shake shortly thereafter. Gets in hot shower and adopts foetal position. Could easily fall asleep.>
Got to, really. La Marmotte is only five months away (sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!)
A break tomorrow night and Friday, me thinks, so I'm fresh for a short ride on the weekend. Then going to ramp it up a little more next week.FCN 2-4.
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jimmypippa wrote:Anyone for "hilly commutes"?
I'd suggest at least 500ft ascent in a day.
I would be quite high, but not at the top on that.
According to Bikehike;
My everyday route into work is 8.7 with a measley 185 foot of climb.
My longer route that I'm trying to stick to for the way home according to Bikehike is 16.39 miles (16.25 on my computer) with 698 foot of climbing. Or for when I'm feeling brave the alternative route up Leckwith Hill is 16.35 with 792 foot.
If I do the short route (but take Leckwith Hill) I'll do 7.8 miles with 420 foot.
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*fingers in ears* La-la-la. I'm not listening *looks around for a sandpit*cjcp wrote:JonGinge wrote:
Good work, sir. Six extended commutes in three days. Chapeau.cjcp wrote:<Struggles through front door. Drinks a For Goodness Shake shortly thereafter. Gets in hot shower and adopts foetal position. Could easily fall asleep.>
Got to, really. La Marmotte is only five months away (sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!)
A break tomorrow night and Friday, me thinks, so I'm fresh for a short ride on the weekend. Then going to ramp it up a little more next week.0 -
JonGinge wrote:
Good work, sir. Six extended commutes in three days. Chapeau.cjcp wrote:<Struggles through front door. Drinks a For Goodness Shake shortly thereafter. Gets in hot shower and adopts foetal position. Could easily fall asleep.>
take the rest of the week off, you deserve it
Ahh fer fucks sakeCJCP wrote:Then going to ramp it up a little more next week.
I'm really tired... there are you happy now??Purveyor of sonic doom
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Oddjob62 wrote:jimmypippa wrote:Anyone for "hilly commutes"?
I'd suggest at least 500ft ascent in a day.
Would that be 500ft ascent total (easy, do that most days) or 500ft between start point and finish point (I'd have to go 20miles just to find a hill that high)?
*I* fit both criteria, but I was thinking total ascent in a day...0 -
Oddjob62 wrote:roger merriman wrote:it's about the only chance I get to creep up the list! mind you I could just count club and MTB rides and that would do more!
You should do... I think most of the top 20 would plummet if they could only log their (direct) commute. I would be only logging 30-35 miles a week if that was the case.
Yeah I think we should have a commuting only mini league. Coz I don;t have much chance to do anything else at the moment :roll:0 -
Hmmm
Inspired by these tales of 'extended commutes' I decide to take a little detour on the way home. Up into the foothills of the Sperrins to be extact. Added an extra 9.5 mile to the journey but 1500 ft of climbing to a max of 820ft
Beautiful route and I'll be doing it again, but I will be waiting a week or 3 until I have about another half hour of daylight. The Bikehut Ultra Bright light wasn't quite as bright as Halfords would suggest and while the climbing was manageable the descending in the pitch black was a bit scary and I'm sure did a couple of miles with the brakes on as I could barely see the road surface.
Also, while it was great to be on relatively traffic free roads, drivers coming towards me with their lights on full beam meant I had to come to a stop as I couldn't see a thing.
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jimmypippa wrote:Oddjob62 wrote:jimmypippa wrote:Anyone for "hilly commutes"?
I'd suggest at least 500ft ascent in a day.
Would that be 500ft ascent total (easy, do that most days) or 500ft between start point and finish point (I'd have to go 20miles just to find a hill that high)?
*I* fit both criteria, but I was thinking total ascent in a day...
As a kid doing cycle training at primary school would of hit the 500ft in one hit, at least on the way back as the village school was at the bottom and mouth of the valley my folks place was and is some half way up the side so some 550ft over 2 miles probably on some cheap kids single speed as well. seem to rember it taking a long time...
since I'm now london my commute is flat.0 -
Clever Pun wrote:JonGinge wrote:
Good work, sir. Six extended commutes in three days. Chapeau.cjcp wrote:<Struggles through front door. Drinks a For Goodness Shake shortly thereafter. Gets in hot shower and adopts foetal position. Could easily fall asleep.>
take the rest of the week off, you deserve it
Ahh fer fucks sakeCJCP wrote:Then going to ramp it up a little more next week.
I'm really tired... there are you happy now?? FCN 2-4.
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Let's hope Marc Beaumont doesn't ever join the Stats table...FCN 2-4.
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Only single digit gaps between positions 5 and 15 :shock:
Competiton is fierce.0
