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What is your Eddington Number?

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  • June 28, 2015 at 6:05 pm #24320
    Leviathan

    Your Eddington number is defined as the largest integer E, where you have cycled at least E miles on at least E days. For example an E of 60 means that you have ridden 60 miles or more on 60 or more days. Simple.
    Read more at http://triathlete-europe.competitor.com/2011/04/18/measuring-bike-miles-eddington-number#ct6fSuf1kYAEfGpT.99tere

    An interesting little measure I found on Veloviewer. Apparently I have ridden 31km 31 times or 23miles 23 times (I work in kms so I’ll take the bigger number.) It gets progressively harder and you can’t just ride further, ALL your rides need to be longer to move up. Fascinating 😕 What’s your number?

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  • June 30, 2015 at 9:54 am #851713
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    Guernsey Donkey

    mike the bike wrote:First it

    mike the bike wrote:
    First it was cycling computers, followed by their bastard offspring GPS, which led to Strava and Everesting and now this mathematical nonsense.
    The world is going to hell in a handcart, ISIS are running rampant and Dermot has been sacked from The X-Factor. We’re all doomed I tell you …… doomed.

    It could be said that ‘The Eddington’ was probably the first ‘E number’.

    Sir Arthur Eddington was born 28/12/1882, died 22/11/1944.

    I suspect that the closest that he ever got to a cycle computer was one of these:-

    http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEQe2hRWMAEw2HS.jpg

    June 29, 2015 at 10:08 pm #851711
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    Batchy

    I’m just too busy trying to
    I’m just too busy trying to get myself a life !

    June 29, 2015 at 8:13 pm #851709
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    Leviathan

    Just checked my rides from
    Just checked my rides from last summer before I started using Strava and it gets me to 28miles or 40kms. Nice (jazzclub).

    June 29, 2015 at 6:58 pm #851707
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    number9dream

    vonhelmet wrote:Is there any

    vonhelmet wrote:
    Is there any way you can easily find this out without paying for Veloviewer?

    Actually Veloviewer is well worth paying for – it’s under a tenner per year – it makes sense of Strava in so many ways and justifies pro membership in a way that Strava doesn’t (at 4x the price).

    June 29, 2015 at 6:39 pm #851705
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    vonhelmet

    Martyn_K wrote:vonhelmet

    Martyn_K wrote:
    vonhelmet wrote:
    Is there any way you can easily find this out without paying for Veloviewer?

    http://canini.me/eddington/index.php

    This drives in to your Srava stats with you authorisation.

    Quite happy with mine being 70.

    Cheers for that.

    Mine has come out at 41, which is a little bit higher than where I expected; I was anticipating high 30s.

    I need 17 more rides of over 45 to get to 45, so I expect that will happen next year sometime. 34 over 50 to get to 50, so that’ll take a bit longer. 48 to get to 60 will take me years.

    June 29, 2015 at 5:11 pm #851703
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    mike the bike

    First it was cycling
    First it was cycling computers, followed by their bastard offspring GPS, which led to Strava and Everesting and now this mathematical nonsense.
    The world is going to hell in a handcart, ISIS are running rampant and Dermot has been sacked from The X-Factor. We’re all doomed I tell you …… doomed.

    June 29, 2015 at 4:51 pm #851701
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    KirinChris

    Interesting – mine is 78.
    To
    Interesting – mine is 78.

    To get to 80 I would need 11 more rides of 80+ miles.

    But to get to 90 I would need 60 more rides of 90+ miles.

    June 29, 2015 at 10:59 am #851699
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    Martyn_K

    vonhelmet wrote:Is there any

    vonhelmet wrote:
    Is there any way you can easily find this out without paying for Veloviewer?

    http://canini.me/eddington/index.php

    This drives in to your Srava stats with you authorisation.

    Quite happy with mine being 70.

    June 28, 2015 at 10:09 pm #851697
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    vonhelmet

    Is there any way you can
    Is there any way you can easily find this out without paying for Veloviewer?

    June 28, 2015 at 9:14 pm #851695
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    Guernsey Donkey

    28miles or 34km for me.
    28miles or 34km for me.

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