235 miles a day for a year (Amanda Coker Challenge)
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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
It is sad seeing Kurt’s record target slip away.
Agreed. If there was one person I wanted Steve to beat, it was Kurt.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Good miles yesterday
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
Looks like he had a bad day yesterday, only 92 miles done. I think he came off on the ice the day before.
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
According to the tracker Steve has had a couple of days off followed by a late start this morning, which means today's ride will probably be a short one in his terms.
I reckon this week may have added about six miles a day to the already stiff looking required rate to beat Tommy of 205 miles a day.
With two grotty months to finish the year, beating Tommy is looking increasingly unlikely.
I reckon this week may have added about six miles a day to the already stiff looking required rate to beat Tommy of 205 miles a day.
With two grotty months to finish the year, beating Tommy is looking increasingly unlikely.
jay clock
Massive member
- Location
- Hampshire UK
I am impressed that someone is still going when there is no kudos other than "cycling a lot in a year but not probably the highest Brit or male" - I feel sorry for Steve. How does he fund this? Any prospect of another attempt?
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Steve's 2015 attempt was crowd funded.
Many on here and in the other place contributed, including me.
We've never been told figures, but it appears the original fundraising was so successful there's just about enough in the kitty for this attempt.
Aravis
Putrid Donut
- Location
- Gloucester
I believe he had problems with the tracker - presumably now solved. So not quite that bad!
Pale Rider
Legendary Member
Hopefully he can claim those rides, because however you look at it, every mile is now crucial if he is to beat Tommy.
There's still a two-day gap in the tracker, not that I full understand it.
Looks to me as if Steve finished in the early hours this morning, but is not riding today - unless the tracker is acting up again.
https://frrt.org/tg/riders?offset=250&limit=50
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I'm afraid the weekly stats update will be a day late this week. Sorry
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
He's posted this on Strava today:
Into 2018...
Some basic stats copied and pasted from my Strava page
Last 4 Weeks
Avg Rides / Week 9
Avg Distance / Week 1,243 mi
Avg Time / Week 83h 10m
2017
Distance 65,195.5 mi
Time 4104h 22m
Elev Gain 1,362,825 ft
Rides 407
So, over 65,000 miles since Jan 1st, which is more than my UMCA age category HAMR record from 2015. Though I set off on March 4th 2017 but the 65,000 miles does include about 2-3000 miles of training rides I did before I set off. So I pretty much matched my own year record in 10 months. Not getting a broken ankle seems to help.
During this attempt I have discovered that I almost certainly have a condition that has been holding me back since even before I started with the HAMR. It's being dealt with and I am feeling a lot better with regards to that.
The thing that is holding me back most now are my injuries from being hit by a car, which would have been traveling at around 50mph and was probably very close to being fatal. Also my painful hip which I got from coming off on ice last week. Walking and getting on or off the bike are still uncomfortable but riding the bike isn't so bad as long as I don't go too hard. My injuries are also making me sleepy, so I sometimes stop for sleep and rest. Apart from that I am feeling a lot better and waiting impatiently for my injuries to heal so I can get on with it.
Into 2018...
Some basic stats copied and pasted from my Strava page
Last 4 Weeks
Avg Rides / Week 9
Avg Distance / Week 1,243 mi
Avg Time / Week 83h 10m
2017
Distance 65,195.5 mi
Time 4104h 22m
Elev Gain 1,362,825 ft
Rides 407
So, over 65,000 miles since Jan 1st, which is more than my UMCA age category HAMR record from 2015. Though I set off on March 4th 2017 but the 65,000 miles does include about 2-3000 miles of training rides I did before I set off. So I pretty much matched my own year record in 10 months. Not getting a broken ankle seems to help.
During this attempt I have discovered that I almost certainly have a condition that has been holding me back since even before I started with the HAMR. It's being dealt with and I am feeling a lot better with regards to that.
The thing that is holding me back most now are my injuries from being hit by a car, which would have been traveling at around 50mph and was probably very close to being fatal. Also my painful hip which I got from coming off on ice last week. Walking and getting on or off the bike are still uncomfortable but riding the bike isn't so bad as long as I don't go too hard. My injuries are also making me sleepy, so I sometimes stop for sleep and rest. Apart from that I am feeling a lot better and waiting impatiently for my injuries to heal so I can get on with it.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
A tough week. Here are Steve's stats up to the end of 2017. He logged 30km on New Year's morning but I've not included that yet.
Steve's stats as at 31 Dec 17
Days: 303, 83.0% of year, 62 days remaining
Dist: 100,068 km / 62,179 mi
Avg daily dist: 330.3 km / 205.2 mi (Last 7 days: 280.1 km / 174.0 mi per day)
Avg daily elevation (Strava): 1,260 m / 4,135 ft (Last 7 days: 1217 m / 3994 ft per day)
Moving speed (Strava): 25.6 km/h / 15.9 mi/h (Last 7 days: 23.5 km/h / 14.6 mi/h)
Hours per day riding (Strava): 15.1 (Last 7 days: 16.2)
Projected total at overall daily rate: 120,544 km / 74,903 mi (330.3 km / 205.2 miles per day)
Projected total at 7 day rate : 117,431 km / 72,968 mi (321.7 km / 199.9 miles per day)
Required rates for various records
René Menzies (1937) 61,561 miles Passed 27/12/17
7.7 miles/day required for Ossie Nicholson (1937) 62,657 miles
23.1 miles/day required for Steve Abraham (2015) 63,609 miles
47.5 miles/day required for Bernard Bennett (1939) 65,127 miles
207.8 miles/day required for Tommy Godwin (1939) 75,065 miles
224.1 miles/day required for Kurt Searvogel (2015) 76,076 miles
393.4 miles/day required for Amanda Coker (2016) 86,573 miles
Last 7 days
2017-12-24 09:05 175.3 miles Merry Christmas Everyone
2017-12-25 07:02 232.3 miles Accident of birth
2017-12-26 00:00 200.5 miles Cunning route to get a day of tailwind and dodge the snow. It mostly worked. HR strap battery died. Wasted time charging up the 520 for power data but the 520 lost the ride....
2017-12-27 00:00 176.8 miles The wind was more westerley than I'd have liked, so the tailwind home wasn't great. Saw how much snow I'd missed. Icy roads after St Neots. I went down on ice near Bedford. Slow, painful ride home. Another injury to the collection....
2017-12-28 11:07 92.1 miles Lost over 2 hours sorting out the live tracker (ended up using a phone plugged into a battery with a GPS) New injury from yesterday's crash is slowing me down a lot. Continued in "Description"....
2017-12-29 08:59 155.6 miles Morning Ride
2017-12-30 09:59 182.4 miles More time lost sorting out live tracker, then several other problems on the road. But going surprisingly well, considering how uncomfortable it is for me to walk and get on or off the bike.
2017-12-31 09:31 178.4 miles Thought I'd get over 200 miles but the hip got very painful. Ended up stopping for sleep then riding into the wind with a painful hip.
Steve's stats as at 31 Dec 17
Days: 303, 83.0% of year, 62 days remaining
Dist: 100,068 km / 62,179 mi
Avg daily dist: 330.3 km / 205.2 mi (Last 7 days: 280.1 km / 174.0 mi per day)
Avg daily elevation (Strava): 1,260 m / 4,135 ft (Last 7 days: 1217 m / 3994 ft per day)
Moving speed (Strava): 25.6 km/h / 15.9 mi/h (Last 7 days: 23.5 km/h / 14.6 mi/h)
Hours per day riding (Strava): 15.1 (Last 7 days: 16.2)
Projected total at overall daily rate: 120,544 km / 74,903 mi (330.3 km / 205.2 miles per day)
Projected total at 7 day rate : 117,431 km / 72,968 mi (321.7 km / 199.9 miles per day)
Required rates for various records
René Menzies (1937) 61,561 miles Passed 27/12/17
7.7 miles/day required for Ossie Nicholson (1937) 62,657 miles
23.1 miles/day required for Steve Abraham (2015) 63,609 miles
47.5 miles/day required for Bernard Bennett (1939) 65,127 miles
207.8 miles/day required for Tommy Godwin (1939) 75,065 miles
224.1 miles/day required for Kurt Searvogel (2015) 76,076 miles
393.4 miles/day required for Amanda Coker (2016) 86,573 miles
Last 7 days
2017-12-24 09:05 175.3 miles Merry Christmas Everyone
2017-12-25 07:02 232.3 miles Accident of birth
2017-12-26 00:00 200.5 miles Cunning route to get a day of tailwind and dodge the snow. It mostly worked. HR strap battery died. Wasted time charging up the 520 for power data but the 520 lost the ride....
2017-12-27 00:00 176.8 miles The wind was more westerley than I'd have liked, so the tailwind home wasn't great. Saw how much snow I'd missed. Icy roads after St Neots. I went down on ice near Bedford. Slow, painful ride home. Another injury to the collection....
2017-12-28 11:07 92.1 miles Lost over 2 hours sorting out the live tracker (ended up using a phone plugged into a battery with a GPS) New injury from yesterday's crash is slowing me down a lot. Continued in "Description"....
2017-12-29 08:59 155.6 miles Morning Ride
2017-12-30 09:59 182.4 miles More time lost sorting out live tracker, then several other problems on the road. But going surprisingly well, considering how uncomfortable it is for me to walk and get on or off the bike.
2017-12-31 09:31 178.4 miles Thought I'd get over 200 miles but the hip got very painful. Ended up stopping for sleep then riding into the wind with a painful hip.
