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Hi Gazza,
are you lost?
do you want directions?
(Just remembering your story of JOGLE and going up St Stephens Hill out of Launceston! Hee! Hee! You should have gone the easy way round the back!)

Any road up,
Just done some head scratching and checking in diaries.
I only need 12 more runs of 80 miles, and I'll have a lifetime E80.

Mick F wrote:Hi Gazza,
are you lost?
do you want directions?
(Just remembering your story of JOGLE and going up St Stephens Hill out of Launceston! Hee! Hee! You should have gone the easy way round the back!)

Any road up,
Just done some head scratching and checking in diaries.
I only need 12 more runs of 80 miles, and I'll have a lifetime E80.

It's no good telling me that now!

>;o)

It's funny though, I do remember quite a large descent from Launceston before climbing St Stephen's Hill. Should've known there'd be a better way!

Gazza

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Speaking in brackets, coz this should be in the LEJOG board:

(Going to LE [reverse if going to JOG]: Drop down through Launceston past the castle, and down through the traffic lights to the mini roundabout over the bridge. Instead of going straight on up the steep hill, go right and after a hundred yards or so, turn left. This road joins up in St Stephens, but the hill is gradual rather than precipitous!)

Back on topic ........

I've got back to this idea, and have been thinking of all the long rides I've ever done - even as a callow youth - and I thought I'd be approaching a lifetime E80. My E2Es have been an average of 80 miles a day, so if you add my three week double E2E to my 11 day JOGLE (same routes) I would have had 32 days of 80 miles. I thought I was well on track when you consider all my other long rides.

But I've studied my rides diaries, and wracked my brains, and got maps out and calculated from years back. Now I have a spread sheet detailing exact mileages, or as near as I can determine.

I can't cheat, because I'm only cheating myself.

I have to confess that I am a paltry lifetime E65. Though I only need a further seven rides of over 70 miles, and I'll be an E70.

E70? Basic.
Watch this space!

E80 OTOH is not basic. I'll need another 35 rides over 80 miles to get that accolade.

Good grief, guys! How nerdy is this? I'm not even going to think about my E no ........Damn!
You'll be Munro bagging next it's a slippery slope.....

The problem for someone like me (E37) is what to aim for in the E advancement stakes. For example, I could extend one commute a week from 35 miles to 50 miles by doing just 7 more each way, and inside a year I'd have E50.

But then, for only one more week's effort (and a paltry extra 800m each way) I could be an E51. And so on, and so on...

millimole wrote:Ah! One of my favourite subjects - beware you can become obsessed

Getting a high E is harder than it looks, and quite challenging.

Obsessed?
Me?

i think i'm alredy a No14
as i regualy do a 14 mile comute
but i've now done 2 trips to Brighton and back which is 58 miles .....


it could take a while

Just stumbed on this thread! I love stats....

I've only been keeping accurate records since 2008 so I will have to ignore any long rides I did previous to that, not likely to be that many anyway.

My current 'lifetime' Eddington Number is E48

I'm just 9 rides of >50 miles to get E50 so that gives me something to aim for this year

John

andrew_s wrote:100km is 62 miles, and 62 (imperial) is easier than 100 (metric).

How so?

jochta wrote:Just stumbed on this thread! I love stats....

I've only been keeping accurate records since 2008 so I will have to ignore any long rides I did previous to that, not likely to be that many anyway.

My accurate records only go back to 2004, but I've done many long rides in my life - earliest was 1968 to North Wales with a mate. Although we never clocked the mileage, by using modern technology I can trace the ride using BikeHike.uk to measure it. That figure can then go into the mix even though I don't know the specific date.

So basically, with a bit of head-scratching, it can be calculated. The bigger the E Number, the easier it is because the rides would be monumental and memorable.

vjosullivan wrote:

andrew_s wrote:100km is 62 miles, and 62 (imperial) is easier than 100 (metric).

How so?

Coz you only have to do E62 Imperial 62 times, whereas E100 metric has to be done 100 times.

niggle wrote:

vjosullivan wrote:

andrew_s wrote:100km is 62 miles, and 62 (imperial) is easier than 100 (metric).

How so?

Coz you only have to do E62 Imperial 62 times, whereas E100 metric has to be done 100 times.

Doh!

I see that Cavendish has become the first rider ever to win four (non time-trial) stages on four successive Tours de France - a statistic which has the same mathematical structure as the Eddington Number!