"Eddington Number"

[shouldbeinbed]

This may help to illustrate it. You can clearly see that on ride # 99 is 107 miles, ride # 106 is 106 miles (my current number), so to get to 107 I need 8 rides of 107 or above. To get to 108 I need another x13 108 or above. For 109 I need x18 rides of 109 or above.

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Ah ha. Gotcha. It works better visually than as I was thinking of it in terms of equations.

That's some impressive distances. Chapeau.

I can see why Steve and Kurt could hit 200 in double quick time as part of their year records, even if they hadn't got a good stack of those kind of miles recorded to call on before.

 

[velovoice]

I can see why Steve and Kurt could hit 200 in double quick time as part of their year records, even if they hadn't got a good stack of those kind of miles recorded to call on before.

Except... they have.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Except... they have.

Yep I knew they had, Maybe it was the way I typed it, it was a nod to Ian mentionng them before.

 

[PK99]

OK - so what is your Eddington Number for 2015? Mine is now 37

50

 

[Norry1]

50

That's pretty good going. I've crept up to 38 now - and will hit an all-time of 62 tomorrow

 

[PK99]

That's pretty good going. I've crept up to 38 now - and will hit an all-time of 62 tomorrow

Target is an eddington 60 this caĺendar year.... 15 more to go.

 

[velovoice]

I am absolutely shocked to find my Eddington number is 45, with only 2 more rides of 46 miles to take me to 46, only 5 to 47.... and 10 to get to 50. Bloomin' heck! Very pleased with that!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I am absolutely shocked to find my Eddington number is 45, with only 2 more rides of 46 miles to take me to 46, only 5 to 47.... and 10 to get to 50. Bloomin' heck! Very pleased with that!

There's your next few targets ready and waiting!

 

[Norry1]

Just saw that the Canini.me site has disappeared. Anyone know if it has moved somewhere else?

 

[Norry1]

Just saw that the Canini.me site has disappeared. Anyone know if it has moved somewhere else?

Apparently not

I've pulled all my mileage since 2010 into one list on Excel so I can do my own calculations now.

I finished 2015 with a lifetime Eddington mumber of 63 and a 2015 number of 40.

 

[tallliman]

According to veloviewer, my all time Eddington number is now 42. Probably mainly due to my commuting days!

 

[jefmcg]

Just saw that the Canini.me site has disappeared. Anyone know if it has moved somewhere else?

Thought it was time I played with the Strava API. Just attempted to implement this. Have a play and let me know if it works.

http://mcgalliard.org/eddington

(warning it's very rough, but it does calculate metric and imperial. )

 

[StuAff]

Thought it was time I played with the Strava API. Just attempted to implement this. Have a play and let me know if it works.

http://mcgalliard.org/eddington

(warning it's very rough, but it does calculate metric and imperial. )

Thanks!

 

[Norry1]

Thought it was time I played with the Strava API. Just attempted to implement this. Have a play and let me know if it works.

http://mcgalliard.org/eddington

(warning it's very rough, but it does calculate metric and imperial. )

Excellent, thanks. Works great.

It gives me an Eddington Number one less than I made it from Excel. My guess is that I have one ride that is in Excel as say 65 miles that is actually 64.94 or something similar in Strava.

 

[tallliman]

Velo viewer will also work out Eddington number albeit only a lifetime one.