Average moving speed: 26.03km/h.
Route:
Here is the Google Doc with all the stats:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?
key=0At0EKwdiLZmYdFg4Mk9fdHltdWlGeWpQTHMzM3RjU3c&hl=en_GB
An interesting thing happened after the Cambridge to Oxford and Oxford to London trip. I lost sensation in my ring and little fingers, on both hands (more specifically just the outer half of the ring fingers) and the outer half of my palms. These symptoms point to ulnar nerve entrapment, and given that I’d previously done a greater distance in one day than we did going to Oxford (the longer of the two days) I don’t think the distance was the issue – maybe the fact I was going below my optimum speed changed my weight distribution somehow. Anyway the point is I decided that continuing to cycle certainly wouldn’t help the situation. Supposedly I should have regained sensation within a week. That week has passed (nearly two now). My little fingers and palms have returned to normal, but the outer halves of my ring fingers remain numb.
This evening I decided to go ahead and cycle despite the above – my normal routes never caused the problem so at worst can delay the return of sensation – the other option being to not cycle at all and then end up having lost speed when I was able to return to it. Given how long it’s been since I did any distance worth noting (I’ve continued utility cycling e.g. to and from railway stations a fair amount, but I don’t log that of course) I was expecting to be fairly slow, so I’m pleasantly surprised with an average moving speed of 27.45km/h – one of my better times for this route. If you look carefully at the route you’ll see the start/finish is further North East along Huntingdon Road – this is due to the “Summer Move” mentioned in the title – on Saturday I moved house from 94 to 138 Huntingdon Road – college like to have everyone who’s staying over the summer in one place (the move took a while carrying, everything on foot – a good 10 hours just for moving it, let alone packing and unpacking!). The move also means that the distance for this route has increased by about 0.5km.
Route:
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Here is the Google Doc with all the stats:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?
key=0At0EKwdiLZmYdFg4Mk9fdHltdWlGeWpQTHMzM3RjU3c&hl=en_GB
These were group trips. On Monday we cycled from Cambridge to Oxford, staying there at the Oxford Backpackers Hostel for a look around Oxford on the Tuesday before returning to Cambridge on the Wednesday. Originally the plan had been to cycle back to Cambridge, reversing Monday’s route but we then had the idea of instead cycling to London and then getting the train back to Cambridge. As this was a group trip the speeds were relatively relaxed.
I estimate that the route to Oxford was 90 miles once deviations for lunch stops etc. were added, and from Oxford to London about 70 miles (I wasn’t able to fully record the routes for exact distances). The route to London goes over a couple of fairly decent hills (Watlington Hill to name one) – not that high but fairly steep – that were great fun for climbing without dropping from third at the front (I typically only use third at the front so saw it as a challenge to do the whole route that way).
Due to the length of both journeys I had some trouble with recording the routes – the first problem was that on the Monday, despite using the extended battery I have for my phone the battery didn’t quite make it to the very end, so recording cut off just as we hit the Oxford ring road. When I realised this had happended I put the normal battery in and attempted to begin recording the rest of the route as a second part, but when I told it to begin recording, it just sat there and did nothing – no error or anything. Fully recording the rotue wasn’t a priority at the time – finding the hostel and getting some food were higher up on the list. Hence the route from the Oxford ring road to the hostel is not included in the collected data. A similar thing happened on the Wedneday morning when setting off for London – I told MyTracks to record and it just sat there doing nothing. Not wanting to hold the others up I gave up, and tried again when we were outside of Oxford, near Garsington. By this point two possibilities had occured to me – either the length of routes previously recorded was such that there was not enough free memory left for recording (though there was no error to suggest this was the case), or the fact that I had let it run until the battery failed on the Monday had left the MyTracks database in an inconsistent state and there was no code to handle the situation, hence the lack of error. I made sure I’d uploaded Monday’s route to Google and then reinstalled MyTracks, nuking the database in the process. This solved the problem – I was now able to record data again. As on the Monday, the battery ran out just as we got close to Liverool St Station (we took a wrong turning, going along City Rd the wrong way – had we not done this it would probably have just made it to the station), so again the route is not entirely complete. On putting the normal battery in and attempting to record the remainder of the route, it again failed to – given that there was only the one route in the database at this point (having nuked it earlier that day), I end up concluding that the cause of the problem is that the database ends up in an inconsistent state when MyTracks is run until battery failure.
Route from Cambridge to Oxford (two separate maps because Google Maps seems to limit the number of points in a single view):
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View Cambridge to Oxford in a larger map
Route from Oxford to London (two separate maps because Google Maps seems to limit the number of points in a single view):
View Oxford to London in a larger map
View Oxford to London in a larger map
Here is the Google Doc with all the stats:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?
key=0At0EKwdiLZmYdFg4Mk9fdHltdWlGeWpQTHMzM3RjU3c&hl=en_GB
The objective today was distance not speed. I’ve managed to quite comfortably do 83.75 miles in one day, while also managing to spend the whole afternoon at the house enjoying a barbeque in the good weather. Having done 78.09km this morning on the orbital route, and having had a pretty relaxed five hours back at the house including said barbeque, I decided to do some more. As a result I’ve achieved the following:
1) Have now cycled more than 1500 miles on this bike.
2) Have now done all three of my regular/favourite routes in one day.
3) Have done 80+ miles in one day with plenty of spare time.
Morning “Orbital”: 78.09km
Evening “Semi Orbital” and “North West Cambridge”: 37.59km + 19.10km
Total = 134.78km (83.75 miles)
For the record the average moving speeds this afternoon were 24.41km/h for Semi Orbital and 22.32km/h for North West Cambridge – but I’d already done ~50 miles this morning.
Semi Orbital Trip 19 route:
View Cambridge Semi Orbital 19 in a larger map
North West Cambridge Trip 32 route:
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Here is the Google Doc with all the stats:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?
key=0At0EKwdiLZmYdFg4Mk9fdHltdWlGeWpQTHMzM3RjU3c&hl=en_GB
Average moving speed: 21.87km/h. Distance: 78.09km.
Judging from the speeds of yesterday and today I suspect I’ve lost a bit of fitness, having gone to Download 2010 on Wedndesday last week and arriving back on Monday (I saw: Coheed and Cambria, AC/DC, Atreyu, Megadeth, Rage Against The Machine, Cinderalla, Slash, Billy Idol, Airbourne and Aerosmith).
Route:
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Here is the Google Doc with all the stats:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?
key=0At0EKwdiLZmYdFg4Mk9fdHltdWlGeWpQTHMzM3RjU3c&hl=en_GB