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I took my max square to 13x13 today; this seems to put me top of the CCE table again.
Unfortunately I really can't see how I can get it any bigger as I'm now bounded north and south by squares with no roads.
EDIT: Suppose I'll need to acquire a mountain bike or a pedalo, or wait for Midlothian Council to build more roads.
I'm still on 12 x 12 (and that involved a beach). BTW according to the peeps on yacf walking is permitted
BTW according to the peeps on yacf walking is permitted
I've already been including a times where I walked the last few hundred metres up a gravel farm track rather than risk a puncture. Some of the squares around the Granites would require significantly more walking than I'm willing to do in cycling shoes though.
Good work @Frenchy. I didn't think 13x13 was possible in the Edinburgh region, but will have to look again.
A trip to Glenrothes earlier in the week brought me to an 11x11. If I get the walking boots out and climb Saline Hill that will give me a 12x12 which is bounded by the Forth and Loch Leven. So not much prospect of increasing it north of the Forth, especially as the Ochils are also in the way
I'm aiming to increase my cluster- In October it has climbed from 380 to 514 - it now includes Arthur's Seat, Stirling, Dollar and Glenrothes and I hope to get it to 600 before EOY.
SE Edinburgh is next on my list- have a back appointment at 8 on Monday morning and if I get the first train in, I think I can get anther 7-8 tiles before it.
The best thing about tile hunting is discovering new places for future investigation. Lots to learn about.
The other thing I like on Veloviewer is the Eddington stats. e.g. for this year I have done 35x35 miles, 49x49km, 111x111 minutes and 33x660m climbing.
I have 227 days of 30 mins activity and 90 of 120 mins. Hoping for 280 and 120 respectively.
Geeky heaven :-)
I didn't think 13x13 was possible in the Edinburgh region, but will have to look again.
Can tell you my top left square, if that helps.
Please do
Fountainbridge/Dalry.
That's a seriously good effort. A bit of a wander onto the sand at Musselburgh, a la amir, and you can make that into a 14x14 quite easily
Am I to understand that people record where they have been bicycling?
Am I to understand that people record where they have been bicycling?
If we promise that we do it with a micrometer, is that OK?
If I'm in a Strava CCE group, does that feed through to Veloviewer? I recently got interested... (I have the advantage that I run as well as cycle, so I have quite a lot of tiles on the Pentlands already. Still only a 9x9 square though.)
If I'm in a Strava CCE group, does that feed through to Veloviewer?
Yes - on the Summary page, there's a red button on the right hand side saying something like "overall club leaderboards". If you click that, then choose the "clubs" tab, CCE should be in the drop down menu.
@fimm- click on the leaderboards button on the Summary tab.
Then click on the Clubs tab and you should see a dropdown of your clubs. Can be a little temperamental but should bring up this club.
One guy CCE has made his cluster public(1100 strong last I saw) and is probably what we should all be aspiring to...
Note to self- when you go away from your desk while writing a response to a question, do a check to see someone else hasn't answered it in the interim...
One guy on CCE has made his cluster public
Oh.
@iwrats - yes - but he was arrested....
A couple of tiling commutes the last couple of mornings - Portobello to Musselburgh and wet feet on the beach for some new tiles yesterday and filled a gap in Niddrie just South of the Innocent on the return to work.
This morning headed out through East Calder, briefly through Almondell, then the Linn Jaw path between Corston and Harburn (all off road- potholey/boggy in the East, beautiful in the West) and then onto the Lang Whang down to Currie and in to work.
This area may be my best hope for a square bigger than 12x12 without resorting to a canoe, though will need to cover a fair bit more of the Pentlands.
I was wondering what you had been up to. Your strava routes looked even more interesting than normal.
This was mine for 2018- nice it seems to cover number of commute rides and Veloviewer stats as well
veloviewer 2018-all-PI by paddyirish, on Flickr
And mine
For all those of you who do silly things to get your next tile (yes I'm looking at you @paddyirish)...
@Hankchief, duly noted and will fill in. Last night's trip didn't add to my max square (still stuck at a pathetic 11x11) or cluster (a more respectable 809), but playing the long game and it sets down the foundations for other rides
Here's a nutter who did a 16x16 square on one ride...
https://rideeverytile.com/2019/09/02/new-one-day-max-square-record
He obviously didn't have to wade into the forth to get a tile though...
Good effort! I think I recognise some of those shapes from my own rides, but there's never been quite so many...
I wonder what the maximum square you could get in a day is if you start in Edinburgh. I think you would need to take hiking boots and even then you would run out of time before you approached something this impressive.
That is fantastic.
Finally got to 12x12 about 10 days ago when we went up Carnethy Hill and Scald Law (on foot but we met several MTBers).
The Riding the Ghost Audax + anther ride to view the Women's Tour of Scotland added a lot of tiles west of Stirling and I now need one tile in Causewayhead to extend the cluster out to Callander. Next Targets are bringing Perth, Dunning and Auchterarder in and eventually Dundee & St Andrews
@acsimpson - Pretty sure my own 13x13 square could be replicated in a day without needing hiking boots (or wading into the Forth).
First try at drawing a route came in at 220km. That could almost certainly be optimised (but I could also have easily missed a tile or two).
without needing hiking boots (or wading into the Forth).
Where's the fun in that?
Why didn't I know about the veloviewer strava extension before. It will make hunting for new squares much simpler.
After some wandering in the Pentlands, Veloviewer now tells me:
"Max square 14x14"
which I think really is as large as it's going to get.
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