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

[tallliman]

@Pale Rider and @Dogtrousers, thank you!

 

[Ian H]

I republished the donations page recently, but haven't publicised it yet. Steve won't have enough funds to last through the entire year, though he's amazingly frugal.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Steve's stats as at 02 Apr 17
Days: 30
Dist: 10,858 km / 6,747 mi
Avg daily dist: 361.9 km / 224.9 mi
Avg daily elevation (Strava): 1,588 m / 5,208 ft
Moving speed (Strava): 25.6 km/h / 15.9 mi/h
Hours per day riding: 15.1
Projected total at current daily rate: 132,106 km / 82,087 mi

Notes. This is based on simple analysis of Strava data. Miles are allocated to the day in which the ride starts. Where a ride crosses midnight, the starting day is credited with the mileage. This is not really relevant for average totals, but for daily mileage distributions may skew things a bit. The "moving average" speed is based on what Strava considers to be moving time. The hours per day riding is based on the duration of the Strava rides - if Steve splits a day into two parts either side of a break then the break will not be included. If he submits one ride for the whole day, it will. Elevation gain is as reported by Strava. The schedule is as published on Steve's website. The "Coker?" target is a guess.
I am fallible. This may be all totally wrong.

 

[Aravis]

For me, the most striking number is the projected total - over 82,000 miles. It's all too easy to see Steve slowing falling behind Amanda's pace, for the moment anyway, and forget just how far ahead he is of everyone else who's ever got involved with this challenge.

 

[tallliman]

All ifs buts and maybes but I do wonder what Steve would've managed with this level of preparation and no crash first time around. He appears a lot stronger now and I feel the shorter days are part of a natural ebb and flow rather than anything worse.

 

[Mugshot]

Get some lights Steve!!

View: https://youtu.be/ETD3QiqgbCE

 

[Mugshot]

That's better;

View: https://youtu.be/XOAABNcrotQ

 

[Dogtrousers]

What was that breakfast again?

 

[ianrauk]

I see Steve had a big day yesterday.. 261 miles. Today so far just under 182.
Amazing stuff.

 

[Mugshot]

What was that breakfast again?

Not sure, have a feeling there may have been a wafer thin mint in there somewhere though.

 

[Dogtrousers]

By the way, Susan_Boe is maintaining a google spreadsheet, which may be updated a bit more frequently than my updates on here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...PVpuQd5SM8aDB-FmrJC3zldBk/edit#gid=1510827515

 

[Dogtrousers]

An update from Steve with a message to Amanda

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sHlhiuwwiVI

A real gent.

 

[Dogtrousers]

And here's a bit of analysis from the man himself (already a couple of days old, sorry)

 

[Mugshot]

View: https://youtu.be/2q_VFQH6fPQ

 

[Dogtrousers]

Steve's stats as at 11 Apr 17
Days: 39
Dist: 14,064 km / 8,739 mi
Avg daily dist: 360.6 km / 224.1 mi
Avg daily elevation (Strava): 1,577 m / 5,175 ft
Moving speed (Strava): 25.7 km/h / 15.9 mi/h
Hours per day riding: 15.1
Projected total at current daily rate: 131,622 km / 81,786 mi