Yearly Distance Record Attempt (Tommy Godwin - 75,065mi/120,000k)

You sure? How much sleep is he getting? How much does he 'need'?

It's something I'm trying to get to the bottom of from the data. What tends to happen is that there are a series of longer days and then it all falls apart and he has a short day that wipes out the gains made by the longer days. He has to probe to find out what works for him.

Here's a great graph from jo over at yacf: http://gicentre.org/oytt/images/steveMovementDay369.png

Before the moped incident he was tracking really nicely. Since then he's been wasting daylight hours.

On the aggressive end of his schedules I think Steve has vastly underestimated how much sleep he needs. The really thick end of the schedule calls for 18 hours riding time a day during the summer months. That doesn't leave much time left for admin, washing, eating and then sleeping whatever remains.

Anyway, the answer isn't going to come purely from a distance looking at graphs and data, but it's something that helps occupy my tiny brain.