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Awesome, thanks!
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Year E-numberCount Distance Time Day count
2013 8 27 103 miles 10 hours 14 days
2014 11 354 1532 miles 123 hours 190 days
2015 29 431 2983 miles 205 hours 218 daysAs expected with my group rides of ~30 miles and all of my local loops being shorter. I should be able to increase it to 32, but 16 days to get 33 is a touch too far without more regular riding (which I will struggle with).
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2012 29 104 2622 miles 181 hours
2013 36 108 3310 miles 234 hours
2014 34 83 2819 miles 190 hours
2015 30 81 2418 miles 164 hoursAs expected, 2015 was worse than 2014, which was worse than 2013. The aim yet again this year is to beat 2013s total.
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Well...33 miles of commuting done today. Feeling way more fatigued than I should do. If only I could utilise all these fresh fat stores for energy... 
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My Eddington number... though I find it a really weird metric (sorry Von!) to be honest.
All time number is 53. I guess all-time number is meaningless and the interesting one is the yearly one? It's also missing some miles in there - I guess turbo and/or manual rides?
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My Eddington number... though I find it a really weird metric (sorry Von!) to be honest.
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2014 46 1242 9514 miles 661 hours
2015 45 859 7703 miles 489 hours
2016 2 5 84 miles 5 hoursAll time number is 53. I guess all-time number is meaningless and the interesting one is the yearly one? It's also missing some miles in there - I guess turbo and/or manual rides?
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I'd say that the all time one was the more relevant one when it comes to Eddington Numbers.
Has anyone been to the bike show at the Excel? Is it worth going to if you aren't in the market for a new bike? Also is there one at the NEC as that is better to drive to.
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I guess that's what I don't get then - so you could've ridden a load of imperial centuries a few years ago and have done virtually nothing since so you've got a really high number which means...very little.
Or am I missing something obvious?
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Was nice "riding with" you on Sunday Roady
Last year I only managed to match my starter year with ~750 miles. With changes to schedule with my wife going back to work and kids/school/etc, I now rarely get the chance to commute plus I entered a 1/2 marathon so switched training for about 3 months.
Plan to get back into it and taking the opportunity the next 2 months when weather is bad to really put my 2 months free zwift trial to good use.
Last year I only managed to match my starter year with ~750 miles. With changes to schedule with my wife going back to work and kids/school/etc, I now rarely get the chance to commute plus I entered a 1/2 marathon so switched training for about 3 months.
Plan to get back into it and taking the opportunity the next 2 months when weather is bad to really put my 2 months free zwift trial to good use.
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- A good mileage to aim for when commuting, same as me!
- I'd looked at this in 2015 but hadn't seen it/been reminded for 2016, might attend!
- I want to do the same, club ride whenever I can as they're what really pushed my riding forwards at the start of 2015. There's several local 90km Sportives for me that I'll do, several of them I'll be riding to the start which should make my 100km aim fairly easy
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- Numbers are only useful if you're using them for training/zone work. Not much point in knowing your FTP if you don't intend to use it!
- The heatmappers linked earlier are a good place to see local 'loops' or popular routes. Clusterer is good for this too (see this example for 10 mile TT's in/around Solihull). Many of your club rides should cover loops anyway - if they list them online (like mine) they can be a great source to build your own from too!
Well from some rough maths I worked out that around 1,700 miles will be from my commute, 48 miles a week here and there. Then I hope to do at least 60+ on the weekend so should get me over the 4,500 hopefully!
A friend mentioned the sportive a few weeks back as I didn't know we had one local to me (start is 4 miles away aha), so signed up today. Get signed up and join us, it gets lumpy on the way home and some drafting would be appreciated.
End of this year I'll end up with 3 bikes I imagine, winter (current), summer and maybe a cyclocross. I have a few routes saved on my Garmin and hope riding with the club will introduce me to a fair few more, the numbers is more of a thing to see what I can actually do and if I'm any good use them to train properly.
We'll see what 2016 brings!
Well, my new frame arrived today. Felt like the box was empty. Quick inspection and everything looks fine so boxed away until the spring. Also booked my Maratona flights and accommodation. Strangely though I can't be arsed riding my bike at present! Will start training at the weekend.
Unless you've done 100 imperial centuries, they don't count as 100 mile rides (days, more accurately). For you, your imperial centuries count as 53 mile rides. You've done at least 53 miles on 53 separate days. If you go out and do a 54 mile ride tomorrow, your number might increase to 54, but only if none of those previously counted rides were just 53 miles. The higher you go, the harder it gets, and I mean considerably harder. So yeah, pros might be able to get their number up over 100 (but not much further!) but most mortals probably won't get much beyond 60 or 70, and even that would be pretty good going.
It's a measure of your commitment to long days in the saddle, is what it is, really.
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Indeed - supposedly my "I'm not going to skip this honest" imperial this coming Sat will bump me up one point. I suppose higher numbers are always nicer to see 
I'm probably more concerned about weight, FTP and whatever the acronyms for short term power are though.
Decided to spend an extra 45 minutes in bed this morning rather than do a longer commute in. Still getting over illness, cough cough. Definitely not laziness.
I'm probably more concerned about weight, FTP and whatever the acronyms for short term power are though.Decided to spend an extra 45 minutes in bed this morning rather than do a longer commute in. Still getting over illness, cough cough. Definitely not laziness.
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Indeed - supposedly my "I'm not going to skip this honest" imperial this coming Sat will bump me up one point. I supposed higher numbers are always nicer to see
Decided to spend an extra 45 minutes in bed this morning rather than do a longer commute in. Still getting over illness, cough cough. Definitely not laziness.
I don't blame you. I tried to commute and turbo yesterday, and abandoned the turbo session after 15 minutes. Getting my legs going for a third time in the day was a no go, especially on the first day back at work. I think ideally I'd turbo in the morning and commute after so my legs were fresh for the actual work but that means an early start (blergh) and the turbo is pretty noisy too.
I need to sneakily investigate how noisy it is for our neighbours, but I don't want to ask if they can hear anything in case that just flags it to them. Might have to go round and get the missus to give it the beans on the turbo while I'm next door. If they say anything I'll blame the washing machine.
I guess a direct drive turbo would be better but we have a mix of 9 and 10 speed bikes on the turbo at the moment, and it's the vibration rather than the noise that seems to transmit through the house.
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I don't blame you. I tried to commute and turbo yesterday, and abandoned the turbo session after 15 minutes. Getting my legs going for a third time in the day was a no go, especially on the first day back at work. I think ideally I'd turbo in the morning and commute after so my legs were fresh for the actual work but that means an early start (blergh) and the turbo is pretty noisy too.
I need to sneakily investigate how noisy it is for our neighbours, but I don't want to ask if they can hear anything in case that just flags it to them. Might have to go round and get the missus to give it the beans on the turbo while I'm next door. If they say anything I'll blame the washing machine.
I guess a direct drive turbo would be better but we have a mix of 9 and 10 speed bikes on the turbo at the moment, and it's the vibration rather than the noise that seems to transmit through the house.
Have you got padded matting for it? That seems to reduce the vibration a lot for mine.
I'm hoping to turbo tonight, though I might just ride a long route home. I actually ended up with far too many kcal left to eat last night so perhaps I don't need to go quite so crazy on the exercise...but building up an additional deficit might be nice so I don't need to worry about my inevitable excesses at the weekend. Decisions, decisions...
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Yeah, I've got a turbo mat and some cheap floor matting from Halfords under that, but I reckon I need something higher density to isolate it from the floor a bit better. A gym mat or something would be ideal but they are relatively pricey.
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Yeah, they can be. You've probably got the same cheapo Halfords matting as me by the sounds of it. I find it works quite well but I suppose it really depends on what your floors are made out of, etc.
Sounds like what the guy in Withington Cycles told me about his cycling club - we're drinkers with a cycling problem.
Yeah, didn't feel too windy today for me either - on my 3.9 mile commute
Exactly that. I don't think it is a metric you can focus on as part of a yearly target, more something to work on until you don't want to cycle anymore!
Mine is low (20) but that gives me some scope to improve I guess
23 will be easy- 4 days of 23 miles or more but 24 jumps up to 11 days.
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http://road.cc/content/news/174216-stravas-2015-numbers-4-billion-km-ridden-worldwide
Good set of stats from Strava there for 2015.
Good set of stats from Strava there for 2015.
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