ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I am going to have to pretend to be 113 this year!! (112.63 km rounded up.)
Can you Ride Your Age (miles)
- Thread starter Marchrider
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I did twice my age on Monday and plan on doing the same 5 more times at least this year. Then I can retire from all the silly Eddington number nonsense.
T4tomo
Legendary Member
Ah - but you're audaxing beast and I'm mere leisure cyclist with chunky arse!
I got my Eddington to 50 miles and then stopped worrying about it!
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
I still need 46 more days of 50 miles to do that
I knew I hadn't done many, but I thought I had done more than 4.
Hoefully get a few more 50+ miles in this year, 44 is the longest so far (and that was only this Monday).
figbat
Former slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
On Good Friday I did a 57 mile off-road ride along the Ridgeway and back. I’m 54, so I over-delivered slightly.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Are you about to hit the wall Eddington-wise? What number? I'm guessing 124 (200km)
I'd done so many 100.5 mile rides that when I got to 100 it was like starting all over again. I needed 15 101+ mile rides just to increase my Eddington from 100 to 101. So I decided to rest on my laurels.
SuperGalactian
Member
Lots of impressive people in this thread. I’m 71. I don’t think I’ve ever cycled more than 35-40 miles in a day. Simply never had the need. But age in miles is an interesting concept, and now I feel challenged. Have to see what I can do.
I need 5 more 120's to get to that number then a massive jump of 24 121's to get to that number, 35x 122's
I'm not planning on chasing a higher Eddington after getting the 120.
mickle
innit
- Location
- 53.933606, -1.076131
Unfortunately nope.
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
I did a solo 100 miler once when I was 69...until a friend with a Garmin later told me it was only 97 miles.
Nowadays 40 miles is my limit...with a coffee break at the halfway.
a.twiddler
Veteran
As a mere leisure cyclist I thought I was pretty unfit. Until about 2020 my max in a day this century was about 70 miles, and that was a struggle.
In 2020 I discovered recumbent bikes. I found as I went further afield that though I wasn't any faster, I was able to keep going all day without any ill effects. So since 2020 I've been increasing my range, and last year I managed a century ride. I hope to stretch it a bit further this year. Since I'll be 74 next month I can say fairly confidently that I can ride my age in miles. It's as if I've discovered a magic fountain of youth. I haven't ridden these sorts of distances since I was in my late 20s / early 30s when I was quite an active cyclist. I do get a feeling of achievement doing these rides. I'm a solo rider, and enjoy the experience.
As an aside, I'd never heard of Eddington numbers until a couple of years ago, and that was a couple of months after I'd disposed of a load of old diaries with a lot of information on all the rides I did during that period -CTC diaries with weekly mileages, club runs, tours, YHA weekends and the like. I was extremely annoyed about that. I'm pretty sure that it would be in the 70s but based on the evidence I've managed to scrape together after hours of scratching about from other sources, my verifiable lifetime number is 55. Since most of my utility rides are a lot shorter than this it's going to take a lot of dedicated rides in the longer days of summer to increase it by any amount.
In 2020 I discovered recumbent bikes. I found as I went further afield that though I wasn't any faster, I was able to keep going all day without any ill effects. So since 2020 I've been increasing my range, and last year I managed a century ride. I hope to stretch it a bit further this year. Since I'll be 74 next month I can say fairly confidently that I can ride my age in miles. It's as if I've discovered a magic fountain of youth. I haven't ridden these sorts of distances since I was in my late 20s / early 30s when I was quite an active cyclist. I do get a feeling of achievement doing these rides. I'm a solo rider, and enjoy the experience.
As an aside, I'd never heard of Eddington numbers until a couple of years ago, and that was a couple of months after I'd disposed of a load of old diaries with a lot of information on all the rides I did during that period -CTC diaries with weekly mileages, club runs, tours, YHA weekends and the like. I was extremely annoyed about that. I'm pretty sure that it would be in the 70s but based on the evidence I've managed to scrape together after hours of scratching about from other sources, my verifiable lifetime number is 55. Since most of my utility rides are a lot shorter than this it's going to take a lot of dedicated rides in the longer days of summer to increase it by any amount.
