235 miles a day for a year (Amanda Coker Challenge)

[Dogtrousers]

A 186mpd week for Steve. Alternating long and short days, on his local roads. During this week he passed Ossie Nicholson's 1933 total of 43,966 miles.
This week he will have Walter Greaves' 1936 45,383 and Bernard Bennett's 1937 45,801 in his sights.

Steve's stats as at 01 Oct 17
Days: 212 (58.1% of year)
Dist: 71,731 km / 44,572 mi
Avg daily dist: 338.4 km / 210.2 mi
Avg daily elevation (Strava): 1,349 m / 4,427 ft
Moving speed (Strava): 25.7 km/h / 16.0 mi/h
Hours per day riding: 15.5
Projected total at current daily rate: 123,499 km / 76,739 mi
Rate over last 7 days: 300 km / 186 mi per day

 

[Dogtrousers]

[QUOTE 4981005, member: 9609"]Has Steve stayed solely within the UK so far ? so even if he doesnt beat Amandas distance he will at least have the UK record.[/QUOTE]
Yes he has stayed within the UK (England and one brief foray into Wales).

However, there isn't a "UK record" in any official sense.

 

[Zoom]

There isn't a UK HAMR record but Kurt (who didn't apply to Guinness before the record attempt) was acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records for his successful HAMR so presumably Steve could be as well for the UK? (it's years since I read it so not sure if they still have UK records listed)

 

[Dogtrousers]

The UMCA is the only game in town when it comes to mileage records at the moment. Guinness just echo what they say.

Kurt still holds the men's record, and Steve holds his own age group record.

 

[Dogtrousers]

A 197mpd week. All on local roads round MK/Leighton Buzzard

During this week Steve passed Walter Greaves' 1936 total of 45,383 miles, and Bernard Bennett's 1937 total of 45,801 miles.

Next up is René Menzies' 1937 total of 61,561 which Steve should reach some time in the second half of December.

Steve's stats as at 08 Oct 17
Days: 219 (60.0% of year)
Dist: 73,954 km / 45,953 mi
Avg daily dist: 337.7 km / 209.8 mi
Avg daily elevation (Strava): 1,337 m / 4,387 ft
Moving speed (Strava): 25.7 km/h / 16.0 mi/h
Hours per day riding: 15.5
Projected total at current daily rate: 123,257 km / 76,589 mi
Rate over last 7 days: 318 km / 197 mi per day

 

[Dogtrousers]

From Twitter.


View: https://twitter.com/steve_abraham74/status/917413616323883010

 

[ColinJ]

A 197mpd week. All on local roads round MK/Leighton Buzzard

During this week Steve passed Walter Greaves' 1936 total of 45,383 miles, and Bernard Bennett's 1937 total of 73,710 miles.

That should be 73,710 km - 45,801 miles.

 

[Pale Rider]

Well done to @Dogtrousers for singlehandedly keeping some wider interest in Steve's attempt going.

Even the sandal wearing beardies in the other place have largely given up posting about it.

 

[ianrauk]

Well done to @Dogtrousers for singlehandedly keeping some wider interest in Steve's attempt going.

Even the sandal wearing beardies in the other place have largely given up posting about it.

Lots of people are following his progress on Strava

 

[tallliman]

Unfortunately, the distances and durations make it difficult to see his progress. Also, it doesn't feel like he's going for Amanda's record so some of the interest must wane.

 

[Aravis]

I've certainly not stopped watching. Some time ago I found it was becoming impossible to compose a sensible message without sounding unduly negative, which would never have been my intention. So probably best to keep quiet.

From the very start my main hope was that he could surpass Kurt Searvogel, and I still hope he can.

 

[ianrauk]

From the very start my main hope was that he could surpass Kurt Searvogel, and I still hope he can.

Same for me.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I just hope there isn't another one starting next year. What with Steve '15, Kajsa '16 and Steve '17-'18, I'm getting knackered.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Here are a couple of slightly different graphs. They are rolling 7-day distance per day, and rolling 7 day speed (moving average as reported by Strava)

On day 193 Steve started riding just local roads. Days 196 and 197 he lost due to illness.
Also day 153 he did not ride.

 

[Ian H]

Thanks to Dogtrousers, by the way, for helping the team with analysis of the occasional duplicate or missing file issues.