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What is your Eddington Number?

by Leviathan
Sun, Jun 28, 2015 19:05
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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-...

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 39 What's your number?

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Leviathan | 9 years ago
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Just checked my rides from last summer before I started using Strava and it gets me to 28miles or 40kms. Nice (jazzclub).

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Batchy replied to Leviathan | 9 years ago
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I'm just too busy trying to get myself a life !

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mike the bike | 9 years ago
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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.

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Guernsey Donkey replied to mike the bike | 9 years ago
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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:-

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KirinChris | 9 years ago
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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.

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vonhelmet | 9 years ago
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Is there any way you can easily find this out without paying for Veloviewer?

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Martyn_K replied to vonhelmet | 9 years ago
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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.

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vonhelmet replied to Martyn_K | 9 years ago
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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.

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number9dream replied to vonhelmet | 9 years ago
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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).

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Guernsey Donkey | 9 years ago
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28miles or 34km for me.

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