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Pah, Audax Scmaudax!!
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Posted 12 years ago #
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awesome! And inspiring stuff for a little illustration when there's some time.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I'm on the words for a piece if you're game kaputnik.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I reckon they should commemorate that cast-iron stud by making his name the unit of measurement for touring or weekly training: 206.6 miles in a day is one Godwin.
My commute gives me....oh dear. 46.0 milliGodwins.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Yay!! 159 milli Godwins.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I considered calculating yours, but then decided it would depress me. But it's fine that you posted. Everything I do is a worthless waste of time anyway.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Ah the eternal optimist Bruce. A collegue here comes in from Whitburn via Linlithgow and Kingcavil (groan) making his commute ~339 milli Godwins.
Posted 12 years ago # -
*plays a Planck length violin to himself*
Posted 12 years ago # -
Ah, mathematicians, constantly competitive...
Posted 12 years ago # -
"~339 milli Godwins"
~ 1/3 Godwin nicer?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Ah, but you miss that 6 milliGodwins. Every last one counts. Not that Anth is right or anything.
As it happens, 0.6 milliGodwins is the UK average across the population as a whole, if I'm remembering the figure of 46 miles/year correctly.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I saw this earlier on today too. Amazing.
It does seem extremely unlikely that those records will ever be broken and if they were, the breaker would certainly lose points if they weren't on an equivalent bike. It is certainly safe from me, that is one endurance challenge that I definitely draw the line at!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Not going to embarrass myself by calculating (more like trying to calculate!) my commute.
Does seem though that there should be a 206.6 mile run somewhere/sometime to commemorate the bloke? It would seem only fair..Posted 12 years ago # -
"It does seem extremely unlikely that those records will ever be broken and if they were, the breaker would certainly lose points if they weren't on an equivalent bike."
Surely that's what the previous record holder (who rode a penny farthing) said about Godwin?
I guess they didn't have many well surfaced roads back then so the challenger would also need to ride somewhere like... Edinburgh? ;-)
Makes you think. The longest season I can find for Audax UK in the last decade is 40,500km or just 1/3 of what Godwin achieved. Cripes!
Posted 12 years ago # -
Anth'n'Kap, I guess you're thinking of a citycycling piece? If so, could I do a section playing with the numbers as a wee addon? Dunno if that treads on the toes of the Numbers Game page, though.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Couldn't find where he actually went? Stay within the UK, or was he doing laps of small continents...?
Posted 12 years ago # -
"Anth'n'Kap, I guess you're thinking of a citycycling piece? If so, could I do a section playing with the numbers as a wee addon? Dunno if that treads on the toes of the Numbers Game page, though."
Yes
Yes
No
;)
Posted 12 years ago # -
And inspiring stuff for a little illustration when there's some time.
Time has been found. Tin hat is artistic licence.
Posted 11 years ago # -
*cough*
Posted 11 years ago # -
Nice.
Better hope he doesn't need it with that much forehead sticking out ;-)
Posted 11 years ago # -
All it needs is Hodges shouting "PUT THAT LIGHT OUT!"
Posted 11 years ago # -
The rules for wartime cycling at night were pretty restrictive. Those electric light systems were rubbish to begin with (I used to ride a wartime era bike to school - it was old then btw, I'm not that old).
Posted 11 years ago # -
From above link -
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Yes he had (by modern standards) rubbish lights - although at the time, hub-driven dynamo system gifted by Raleigh was probably best around.
However he was cycling in a blackout with precious little traffic on the roads (and certainly no "unneccessary" journeys), so one might find that trying to cycle on modern roads, faced with a mix of overkill and absent street lighting and German executive saloons and their HID death-ray headlights that he didn't have as hard a job of it as we do.
On a moonlit night, it's perfectly possible to cycle along using only ambient lighting. Not altogether advisable though.
Posted 11 years ago # -
I'd be surprised if it couldn't be beaten if anyone was mad enough to dedicate the time to it, but then you'd hope so since things have moved along so far since then (both in terms of equipment, nutrition and road conditions).
And while I can't see any reason to doubt the old record, there'd also be a much better evidence base now, with tracking available in realtime. Imagine a web page showing the latest 'ping' from GPS along with a photo captured on smartphone at regular intervals, like streetview on steroids (you'd need a good data plan mind you!).
Posted 11 years ago # -
*Thinks Dave is considering challenging the record.*
Posted 11 years ago # -
If you were just going for sheer distance, you could find a nice, flat surface with as little traffic and junctions as possible, and just rumble around it at an agreeable pace all day, every day. But that would be boring, wouldn't it.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Steve Abraham rode 40,000km (about a third of the distance Godwin rode) in 2007 http://www.aukweb.net/results/archive/2007/listride/?Rider=1223. This was while working 5 days a week - he would ride a 600km+ ride each weekend and do a midweek 200km some night after work.
He has expressed a serious interest in going for Godwin's record and if there's anyone fit/daft enough it's him.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Steve Abraham is going for Tomy Simpson's record this calendar year (and a couple of Americans are trying it too but starting a few days later)
11 days in and he's done 2,000 miles already.
Impressive stuff especially in this weather. His strava data shows that he keeps his heart rate below 100 for 95% of the time.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I assume he has a plan. I appreciate that it is the middle of January, but I reckon he is well down on the record at the moment. By about 2-300 miles. That is a fair bit to make up if he goes on at this rate through the winter. Good effort nevertheless.
Posted 9 years ago #
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