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Entirely off topic but...I go through Eddington every other day on my rides!
It's just outside Trowbridge where I live.
(That double's my E number every time by way of a distortion in the space/time continuem)
Ben
Ps. Alfred the Great beat the Vikings there with great loss of life, and saved England to boot!

If I count 100 km Audaxes as 63 miles, then I'm certainly at E = 63 imperial.

I can now report that I am an official lifetime E80.

E81 will only need four rides of over 81miles and E82 will only need seven rides, but E85 will require 26 rides over 85miles .......... Possible, but it might take me a few years .............

I'm a measly E20 I guess - all commutes. I have a vague E100 target, but my last 100 mile day turned out to be just over 97, and I couldn't face the extra 3 after a 3 hour drive home..

I realise compared to many my distances are low, but over the last year I've gone from E0 to E34 and hoping to get to E40 by the end of the year (doubt I'll make it but it's good to have targets). I'm sure I'll increase a bit but how far ...

Ian

That is excellent!
Well done.

Doing better than me this year, and better than many.

Mick F wrote:That is excellent!
Well done.

Thanks
But ...

Mick F wrote:Doing better than me this year, and better than many.

er ... you are now E80 (well done) and the longest ride I've done (ever) is 60 miles and that was only a few days ago.

Ian

Yes, but my first over 80 was back in 1967 followed by a few more that year. Many of mine go back to the 1980's. It's taken me the last ten years since retiring to reach E80.

These days, I go off for a ride and normally home for lunchtime having done only 30miles. It's probably only once every couple of months that I even attempt an all day ride of 80miles or more, and even then I wait for good weather.

Quite a few of my 80's are from LEJOG etc though.

I cycled in the past, over 20 years ago and did a few long rides but not many really and i don't have records so I'm not counting them. I started again in April and have just converted everything to miles and realise I'm only E16.

I need to get some longer rides in.

Can you remember where you went to on those long rides 20years ago?
If you go to bikehike.co.uk and plot your likely route, you'll see the distance. Also, if you take a conservative stab at how many times, you can use that info.

It just happens that I have a good long-term memory so I was able to remember my long ones as a teenager. We lived in Lancashire back then and me and my mate Paul rode up to Trough of Bowland three times one summer. Also, we went on a camping trip to Snowdonia the following one. (We didn't ride back, we took the train home! )

Mick F wrote:Can you remember where you went to on those long rides 20years ago?

Not really, feels like a lifetime ago. I'm happy to start again on all my stats.

Slightly OT but I rather like the story about a journalist asking Eddington if it was true that he was one of only four people who really understood general relativity. "I don't know about that" he replied. "Don't be so modest Sir Arthur" says the journalist. "Oh it isn't that - I just wondered who the other two might be".

I'd not heard the Eddington number idea before - I love it, but shame precludes working mine out.

Richard Feynman and Maurice Wilkins.

Ayesha wrote:Richard Feynman and Maurice Wilkins.

I think Feynman might have been about 3 at the time, although doubtless a bright lad

Thread resurrection alert!

I now have a Moulton ......... as many of you know ............... and since first getting on it and riding 3rd March this year, I've ridden it 32 times. Longest distance so far is 55miles.

My E Number just for the Moulton, is a massive E17.