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

Tonight Steve hit a pothole, about 120-miles into his ride

Has he considered cycle training?

Heal up soon, Steve's bike.

The guy is nails. Hats remain off to Kurt for his effort but trying to so this in the English weather, with no dedicated onside support is amazing. Ride safe Steve.

Tuesday 12th Jan - 130.9 mi, 15:22:13 h, 2,230 ft

new attempt cumulative - 30,012.5 mi, 103:15:10:35 d, 625,582 ft

Wednesday 13th Jan - 225.7mi, 23:26:53 h, 4,045 ft

new attempt cumulative - 30,238.2 mi, 104:14:37:28 d, 629,627 ft

Now going to go through the night and through to tomorrow night, hopefully for an early night.

Machine.

Can't argue with the machine comment, but what happened to the mammoth session to make up lost miles? 130 followed by 225 isn't any significant ground caught up.

Indeed, it's more ground lost on the 205 miles per day Jan target and also a late finish.

9.30am start this morning though, and seems to be going at a reasonable clip.

Thursday 14th Jan - 193.9 mi, 15:06:08 h, 3,246 ft

new attempt cumulative - 30,432.1 mi, 105:05:43:36 d, 632,873 ft

I think that jo is pulling out the GPX tracks from Strava (which requires a premium account that I don't have, and have no intention of getting)

You don't need a Premium account to get the data from Strava, it's just not in GPX format directly. The data is displayed on the analysis page of any activity (not a Premium feature) so it must be inside the javascript somewhere, so I took a look.

Using Firebug there are 3 queries the javascript performs, all of which return json. One contains a series of lat/lon points, the other two queries do things like time, distance, altitude, heartrate, smoothed speed, etc. There's a bit of duplication between the last two queries, and it may be possible to combine it all into one query.

The two sets of data should have the same number of points and so it's a case of grabbing and combining the two/three datasets and then making each of the points into a GPX trackpoint.

Busy this weekend but I'll see what I can come up with over the next few days.

I should have added "and which gives a level of data that I'm not sure is actually required" as I think that the day to day comparison is in lots of ways of more interest that the minute to minute one, and that actually, having done the rolling 5 day bits, I think that they are about right for trend work. Start looking too small, and you miss the big picture (and I don't want to duplicate jo's work more than I am doing now)

Fair enough. I'd exchanged PMs with jo and so I know how he is getting the data (similar to the way I posted but not exactly) so I thought it would be useful to explain how it would be possible without being a Premium Strava member.

I agree that multiple day trends are more useful for the future. Unfortunately those are only trending further and further upwards as he puts in days below his revised schedule.

I'll still say he's in with a shout until the required numbers get quite a lot higher.

I'll still say he's in with a shout until the required numbers get quite a lot higher.

Yes, and I think his revised schedule takes him 1000 or so miles past Tarzan's total, so he has a little leeway to let go

In an interview in Cycling Weakly this, er, week, Searvogel opines that Steve can't beat his record unless he gets out of England to do it.

Yes, and I think his revised schedule takes him 1000 or so miles past Tarzan's total, so he has a little leeway to let go

Steve's schedule has been revised again and is down to 76,258.5, which is 182.5 miles beyond Kurt's record (assumming that is validated at 76076, have no reason to think otherwise).

Saturday 16th Jan - 200.2 mi, 13:49:02 h, 3,146 ft

new attempt cumulative - 30,632.3 mi, 105:19:32:38 d, 636,019 ft

What's going on with bruce's attempt?

yacf info here

Yeah, I cba with all the 'chat'.

Does anyone know what's actually going on officially?

I read it's to do with power/hr, then tracker. Then drafting. All the keyboard hypothesisers are out for this one.

Are we following Kajsa Tylen yet?

http://www.ayearinthesaddle.com/
https://www.strava.com/athletes/2276762

I wonder if she already has a rival attempting the same thing--that undoubtedly increases visibility.

Looking at her photos on Strava no-one will have as much fun doing the year as she will.

I think the key thing is the lack of live tracker, which is a key requirement of the UMCA rules.

Strava uploads are relatively easy to fake, photos/vidoes taken en route less so, live tracking is much much harder to reliably fake.

The UMCA require X and Bruce isn't providing it yet.

Agree. But a garmin file with power is pretty solid proof. More so that recipts from shops!
But if that's the rules, that's the rules.

Shouldn't be too hard to fake .fit files.

Data which (almost) matches the mens of the Women's is here - https://goo.gl/lYClYG

Bruce is out