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  • benno68
    benno68 Posts: 1,689
    salsajake wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    My prediction for 2010 winner is 'FixedWeasel' - his daily commute is a total of 43.5 miles. :shock:

    I don't think that's particularly exceptional in the company that will be chasing the top spot, unless he does it day in, day out. I do just under 40 miles 3-4 times a week, weather and work commitments permitting, but I doubt I'll be in the top 30 even if we don't have any more new entrants. Also, the guys chasing top spot do good miles in the week but then go on to do big sportives and the like at weekends, there is simply no catching them!

    There's only one certainty, I won't be close.

    What I'm worried about is the people who are just biding their time and waiting for longer daylight hours and better weather to crank up the miles. Can't see me in the top 30 either, I'll be pleased with 5000 for the year which would be a big improvement on 2009.

    @ITB - please go out on your bike, do a quick 8 miler and put me out of my misery, it's only 1/2 an hour of your time!
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    Giant Defy 105 2009
  • salsajake
    salsajake Posts: 702
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    My prediction for 2010 winner is 'FixedWeasel' - his daily commute is a total of 43.5 miles. :shock:

    Rich158 and Will3 are very similar distances...

    I find doing 30 miles a day knackering getting out at the weekend is hard enough without jelly legs. Saying that, winter miles etc

    My target is 7000 miles for the year I'd like that to keep me in the top ten...we'll see

    my immediate concern is the 19 miles home - 23 mph headwind gusting to 35! Its going to take about 2 hours and be truly awful. I can almost hear the collective sympathy.
  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    salsajake wrote:
    Clever Pun wrote:
    Sewinman wrote:
    My prediction for 2010 winner is 'FixedWeasel' - his daily commute is a total of 43.5 miles. :shock:

    Rich158 and Will3 are very similar distances...

    I find doing 30 miles a day knackering getting out at the weekend is hard enough without jelly legs. Saying that, winter miles etc

    My target is 7000 miles for the year I'd like that to keep me in the top ten...we'll see

    my immediate concern is the 19 miles home - 23 mph headwind gusting to 35! Its going to take about 2 hours and be truly awful. I can almost hear the collective sympathy.

    pub works 2 ways detroys your energy or makes you feel invincible (or you could train it) then out on saturday for 40... MTFU :lol:
    Purveyor of sonic doom

    Very Hairy Roadie - FCN 4
    Fixed Pista- FCN 5
    Beared Bromptonite - FCN 14
  • salsajake
    salsajake Posts: 702
    Benno68 wrote:
    I'll be pleased with 5000 for the year which would be a big improvement on 2009.

    +1
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    No cycling for me today. the rain finally got to me and looking at the strength of the wind today - I'm glad I didn;t.

    hopefully I'll make up the shortfall over the weekend.
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Well job change, same job (well title) but a whole extra 4 miles per day with, the odd longer trip.

    I can hear you all quaking in your boots.......
  • holybinch
    holybinch Posts: 417
    Alright. Just joined the SC league.

    10 miles each way to work, did it once last week, twice this week.
    3 times next? If the old legs allow, of course!
    FCN 4(?) (Commuter - Genesis Croix de Fer)
    FCN 3 (Roadie - Viner Perfecta)

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  • hambones
    hambones Posts: 407
    I'm certainly having to work hard to stay near the top as my commute is pretty short compared to some!!! Hopefully as the weather improves I can start adding a few each way but for now I'm just taking the shortest route possible!! :)
    Still breathing.....
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    hambones wrote:
    I'm certainly having to work hard to stay near the top as my commute is pretty short compared to some!!! Hopefully as the weather improves I can start adding a few each way but for now I'm just taking the shortest route possible!! :)

    I brought in my extended commute at the start of the week and immediately withdrew it again - it's no fun cycling an extra 5 or 6 miles if it's entirely in heavy rain.

    Looking forward to March though. It's bound to be sunny one of these days.
  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    hambones wrote:
    I'm certainly having to work hard to stay near the top as my commute is pretty short compared to some!!!

    I think i'm doing pretty well considering my commute is only 3 miles
    As yet unnamed (Dolan Seta)
    Joelle (Focus Expert SRAM)
  • Mountainboy2465
    Mountainboy2465 Posts: 121
    The wind was horrible tonight. Wouldn't have minded so much but I absolutely had to be home by 16:00. Didn't quite make it.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    hambones wrote:
    I'm certainly having to work hard to stay near the top as my commute is pretty short compared to some!!! Hopefully as the weather improves I can start adding a few each way but for now I'm just taking the shortest route possible!! :)

    Yes, but you go out for "Night Rides"*, which makes you just a little bit mad. :)



    *That's right, your every move is being watched.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Porgy wrote:
    hambones wrote:
    I'm certainly having to work hard to stay near the top as my commute is pretty short compared to some!!! Hopefully as the weather improves I can start adding a few each way but for now I'm just taking the shortest route possible!! :)

    I brought in my extended commute at the start of the week and immediately withdrew it again - it's no fun cycling an extra 5 or 6 miles if it's entirely in heavy rain.

    Looking forward to March though. It's bound to be sunny one of these days.

    Anyone else care to log their rain stats, (I just wanted to see how "realistic" the TFL website claim of 8-wet rides a year would be for me in the Peak District)...

    http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=15973849#15973849

    Hambones lives in a desert as far as I can make out.
    http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=6404
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    hambones wrote:
    I'm certainly having to work hard to stay near the top as my commute is pretty short compared to some!!!

    I think i'm doing pretty well considering my commute is only 3 miles

    Eased back this week - don't want to make myself ill like I did last year. Planning to start upping the mileage again the week after next.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    jimmypippa wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    hambones wrote:
    I'm certainly having to work hard to stay near the top as my commute is pretty short compared to some!!! Hopefully as the weather improves I can start adding a few each way but for now I'm just taking the shortest route possible!! :)

    I brought in my extended commute at the start of the week and immediately withdrew it again - it's no fun cycling an extra 5 or 6 miles if it's entirely in heavy rain.

    Looking forward to March though. It's bound to be sunny one of these days.

    Anyone else care to log their rain stats, (I just wanted to see how "realistic" the TFL website claim of 8-wet rides a year would be for me in the Peak District)...

    http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=15973849#15973849

    Hambones lives in a desert as far as I can make out.

    I've already had more than 8 wet rides this year. So so much for that claim.

    In fact I've had mroe than 8 wet rides in the last week!!
  • andy83
    andy83 Posts: 1,558
    very happy this week, got 114 miles in this week and got a ride to work tomo. gf staying at friends so ill be up extra early to get some extra miles in

    Considering I done 80ish miles the whole of december, january, and februray last year im over the moon with just short of 700 in jan and feb this year. Finally got the right pain killers to control my condition so I can ride again

    So glad i cycled today, had to be at the jobs fair and look smart, tempted with train but ended up cycling which im so glad i did now
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Benno68 wrote:
    @ITB - please go out on your bike, do a quick 8 miler and put me out of my misery, it's only 1/2 an hour of your time!

    Done

    Rain stopped play, no mud guards on the road bike just yet, wicked tailwind but I feel a bit like a cheat nipping out at my leisure in totally unsuitable clothing choosing how far and when to turn back.

    All's fair in love and war :twisted:
    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
    itboffin wrote:
    Benno68 wrote:
    @ITB - please go out on your bike, do a quick 8 miler and put me out of my misery, it's only 1/2 an hour of your time!

    Done

    Rain stopped play, no mud guards on the road bike just yet, wicked tailwind but I feel a bit like a cheat nipping out at my leisure in totally unsuitable clothing choosing how far and when to turn back.

    All's fair in love and war :twisted:

    It was nice being ahead of you, albeit for 2 days.

    Hmm - shall I do my 16 miler...but I must get home for Wales v France, I have a feeling I'll be crying into my beer later! COME ON WALES!!!!
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    Cube Agree GTC Ultegra 2012
    Giant Defy 105 2009
  • hambones
    hambones Posts: 407
    jimmypippa wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    hambones wrote:
    I'm certainly having to work hard to stay near the top as my commute is pretty short compared to some!!! Hopefully as the weather improves I can start adding a few each way but for now I'm just taking the shortest route possible!! :)

    I brought in my extended commute at the start of the week and immediately withdrew it again - it's no fun cycling an extra 5 or 6 miles if it's entirely in heavy rain.

    Looking forward to March though. It's bound to be sunny one of these days.

    Anyone else care to log their rain stats, (I just wanted to see how "realistic" the TFL website claim of 8-wet rides a year would be for me in the Peak District)...

    http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=15973849#15973849

    Hambones lives in a desert as far as I can make out.


    Well jimmypippa you'll be pleased to know that my 'dry run' has well and truly ended. 17 wet rides so far this year! :(
    Still breathing.....
  • hambones
    hambones Posts: 407
    cjcp wrote:
    hambones wrote:
    I'm certainly having to work hard to stay near the top as my commute is pretty short compared to some!!! Hopefully as the weather improves I can start adding a few each way but for now I'm just taking the shortest route possible!! :)

    Yes, but you go out for "Night Rides"*, which makes you just a little bit mad. :)



    *That's right, your every move is being watched.

    It's true - I contemplate my sanity with every night ride! :D
    Still breathing.....
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    A rather damp desert, maybe?
    http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=6404
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    That was fun :P
    Made all that piling into wind this morning worth it!
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Yey a break in the rain, i'm outta here, 20th place WILL be mine :twisted:

    Edit: it all started off so well then the rain came, then my old friend came a knocking :cry: not a problem I have all the tools to do a roadside repair..... FAIL! no spare tube or patches :lol: thankfully I was only 8 miles from home, well within the coverage range of the "support vehicle". :wink:

    Perhaps this wasn't the right tool for the job today, do you like the mud guard? :lol:
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    the lanes are pretty rough, billions of tiny sharp stones and twigs
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    Should have taken this, perhaps now I should use my time to finish it.
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    Nope the rains stopped and it's clearing up, i'm off out again :D
    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.
  • gert_lush
    gert_lush Posts: 634
    I had a lovely ride today down to Wells and around the place, even saw the big yellow bright hot thing in the sky momentarily...... and then the heavens opened and I had a nice hour in torrential rain, no coat, very soggy. Rain stopped about 30 seconds after I entered the house, how does it do that!!!! anyhow a nice 65 miles in the bag, and the rain saved me from cleaning all the cow sh*t off the bike!
    FCN 8 mainly
    FCN 4 sometimes
  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    itboffin wrote:
    no spare tube or patches

    You of all people?
    As yet unnamed (Dolan Seta)
    Joelle (Focus Expert SRAM)
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Had a nice little pootle down to Dartford Heath today. Have to complete 34 miles tomorrow - and as I'm leading the Bexley cyclists monthly ride out into Kent tomorrow - that should be no problem at all.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,436
    I'm 'all in' for Feb
    WheezyMcChubby wrote:
    Target for Feb - 250miles

    Missed my target (201.3), though the very thought of posting that phrase on this thread was enough to get me out for 36.5 miles today to get over the 200 mile mark for Feb and show a healthy increase on January (125miles)

    I'm going to continue trying to build up the mileage week by week as I think its working

    Target for March - 310
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    itboffin wrote:
    no spare tube or patches

    You of all people?

    does seem rash! ;-)
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Bit of a fiddle about to the leaderboard.

    It now shows your position in the leaderboard prior to your last update. As it's not the football league where matches finish at 10 to 5 and we can have a shiny new table, I've tweaked it to show where you were before your last miles. Usually you'll rise a place or two (so green flag) then like me steadily sink back down. Red indicates you're lower than you were, green = higher.

    I've also added cumulative miles to show har far you need to climb above all of the riders above you. Go the add page so it knows who you are, then via the home page lin to let it fill in your cumulative miles gap.

    More later.
  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    For interest:
    http://www.cyclehelmets.org/papers/c2014.pdf
    DATA USED FOR CALCULATIONS.
    Walking and cycling: risk per kilometre
    Annual distance walked/capita: . . . . . . . . . .190 miles
    Annual distance cycled/capita: . . . . . . . . . . .43 miles
    Annual distance/active cyclist: . . . . . . . . . . . .800-1,000 miles
    Pedestrian deaths 1999-01: . . . . . . . . . . . . . .850 annually
    Cyclist deaths 1999-01: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145 annually
    Walking cycling and driving: risk per hour.
    Mean trip speed walked: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2.5 mph
    Mean trip speed cycled: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 mph
    Mean trip speed driven: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 mph
    Driver deaths 1999-01: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,100 annually.

    Our average miles per user are 500 miles in two short months...
    And the average speed is probably higher - even I average about 12.5 mph on my uphill leg, including stops.

    this is making me feel quite good
    http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php?id=6404

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