My Stats

While I sit here compiling images of Bicycle Infrastructure, remembering conversations about federal funding and writing up notes about political leadership and working across boundaries.  Whilst also banging my head that is the brick wall of my curriculum vitae I inevitably keep tracking back to thoughts on the road and taking a quick sly look at old pictures.  I say old, but they are only a matter of weeks, or a couple of months at best, but it still all seems so ling ago.  And remember one of my original ideas was to have a collection of stats and lists for the ride.

Being without a Garmin or Strava type tool I transposed all my daily stats into a spreadsheet as below:

Date	Start	Finish	Distance (Miles)	Time (Hrs.Minutes)	Average Speed (MPH)	Max Speed (MPH)
27/04/2013	Portland	Hood River	67.54	4.41	14.4	40.6
28/04/2013	Hood River	Biggs Junction	52.06	3.40	14.1	42.8
29/04/2013	Biggs junction	Umatilla	86.67	4.30	19.2	46.3
30/04/2013	Umatilla	Walls Walla	55	3.01	18.2	32.4
1/5/2013	Walla Walla	Lewiston	103.16	7.05	14.5	37.2
2/5/2013	Lewiston	Orofino	46.05	3.17	14	26.6
3/5/2013	Orofino	Lowell	57.7	3.50	15	31.4
5/5/2013	Lowell	Lolo Hot Springs	86.1	6.20	13.5	41.8
6/5/2013	Lolo Hot Springs	Missoula	39.89	2.35	15.4	27.6
8/5/2013	Missoula	Ovando	55.6	3.48	14.5	30
9/5/2013	Ovando	Helena	74.5	4.46	15.6	34.6
10/5/2013	Helena	Three Forks	77.4	3.55	-	-
12/5/2013	Three Forks	Big Timber	97.54	6.14	15.6	42.3
13/5/2013	Big Timber	laurel	32.51	1.57	16.5	31.8
14/5/13	Laurel	Greybull	108.98	6.14	17.4	32.9
15/05/13	Greytbull	Tensleep	56.79	3.50	14.7	30.7
16/05/13	Tensleep	Buffalo	65.82	5.02	13	48.5
17/05/13	Buffalo	Gillette	80.27	5.44	13.9	30.9
18/05/2013	Gillette	Sundance	74.73	5.30	13.5	40.4
19/05/2013	Sundance	Deadwood	49.16	3.26	14.2	40.2
21/05/2013	Deadwood	Keystone	52.98	3.53	13.6	45.2
22/05/2013	Keystone	Interior	95.37	5.52	16.2	41.3
23/05/2013	Interior	Murdo	74.29	6.13	11.9	27.1
24/05/2013	Murdo	Pierre	55.41	3.07	17.7	53
26/05/2013	Pierre	Highmore	67.32	5.06	13.1	33.6
27/05/2013	Highmore	Huron	72.06	5.17	13.6	22.6
28/05/2013	Huron	Watertown	99.85	6.13	16	23.6
29/05/2013	Watertown	Montevideo	68.75	4.43	14.5	27.5
30/05/2013	Montevideo	Hutchinson	73	5.35	13	22.4
31/05/2013	Hutchinson	Minneapolis	62	4.27	14	28.9
2/6/2013	Minneapolis	Red Wing	67.09	4.57	13.5	39.1
3/6/2013	Red Wing	Wabasha	51.39	3.24	15	43.7
4/6/2013	Wabasha	Le Crosse	65.82	4.35	14.3	24.3
5/6/2013	Le Crosse	Richland Centre	86.35	6.17	13.7	36.5
6/6/2013	Richland Centre	Madison	86.19	6.48	12.6	29.5
7/6/2013	Madison	Milwaulkee	72.62	5.35	12.9	25.7
8/6/2013	Milwaulkee	Racine	44.33	3.23	13	25.3
9/6/2013	Racine	Chicago	76.44	5.59	12.7	22
12/6/2013	Chicago	Merrivale	36.57	2.44	13.3	27.2
13/06/2013	Merivalle	Lafayette	109.94	6.34	16.7	40.3
14/06/2013	Lafayette	Indianapolis	80.9	5.46	14	23.4
15/06/2013	Indianapolis	Columbus, IN	68.09	5.02	13.5	39.1
16/06/2013	Columbus, IN	Cincinatti	102.39	7.11	14.2	47
17/06/2013	Cincinatti	Xenia	79.09	5.13	15.1	29.5
18/06/2013	Xenia	Columbus, OH	35.8	2.08	16.6	25.5
19/06/2013	Columbus, OH	Zanesville	64.16	4.22	16.6	35.5
20/06/2013	Zanesville	Stubenville	89.86	6.03	14.8	45.7
21/06/2013	Stubenville	Pittsburgh	51.69	4	12.9	21.2
23/06/2013	Pittsburgh	Confluence	109.97	7.41	14.3	49.5
24/06/2013	Confluence	Breezewood	92.63	6.24	14.4	50.5
25/06/2013	Breezewood	Harrisburg	102.48	7.15	14.1	47.5
26/06/2013	Harrisburg	Ephrata	54.58	3.44	14.2	49.2
27/06/2013	Ephrata	Philadelphia	97	7.57	12.1	39
29/06/2013	Philadelphia	Princeton	69.57	5.28	12.7	33.1
30/06/2013	Princeton	New York	65.63	5.42	11.5	29.2
TOTAL			3949.08		14.17

Riveting isn't it! Well being that I'm a bit of a fan of a good range of data, and that behind those numbers are a whole lot of stories and adventures they mean more to me than most.

It's not a comprehensive list.  My wires got crossed a few times, leading to iffy data.  Most notably on that first day out to Astoria.  Then again on most of the riding in the UK From the Welsh border back to Portland Place.  So that can add roughly another 300miles onto the total.  Also all the riding around cities on 'rest' days isn't included.  

There were a few points where I skipped a bit of riding, like out of Big Timber when my tyre needed replacing so I hung around and grabbed a lift for a while.  Or out of Buffalo, WY when I helped with the shopping and caught up to the gang a little way down.  And this happened a few other times.  

Anyway back to the stats, enough with the recollections.  Headlines I guess for me are:

Top Speed: 53m.p.h. caning down into Pierre - Wooo Hooo

Longest Day (distance): 109.97 miles (Pittsburgh to Confluence - included detour to Falling Water)

Longest Day (Pedalling): 7 hrs 57 mins (Denver, PA to Philadelphia)

Longest Day (start to finish): Don't know didn't time each day and my bike computer doesn't calculate that.

Punctures: 4 on the road (2 coming into Pittsburgh, 2 coming into New York) always when we had to be somewhere on time.  Plus 3 more replacements of slow punctures during general running bie maintenance.

Spoke replacements: 1 - coming into Philadelphia, I think it was bent by the hail a way back and finally gave out on the hills of Pennsylvania, or Appellation mountains as they insist on calling them.

Broken Chain: 1 - on our ride around Minneapolis
Clif Bars Eaten: approx 2.6/day for 60 days = 156 (but lets face it probably more!)
Biggest Burger: 32 oz (Scotty's Brewhouse, Indianapolis)
Crappy Motel Breakfasts: Too Many
Number of different beds slept in: I really didn't count and don't have the inclination to look back now, but more than enough - and that's not as saucy as that kind of statement should be;)

Total Distance:  Well as pointed out above, there is no definitive distance for my P2P expedition.  But it's over 4000 miles and below 5000 miles.

The bike computer clicked over 6000 miles this week on a jaunt down to Brighton, though it's done much more than that considering all the rides I've done without measuring.  When I took the bike back into Brixton Cycles upon my return for some T.L.C. they pointed out that I really should bring it in more often.  Cue me being able to just ramble on about... I just rode across America.  Which I did, but the next adventure is still to come...  Now where did I put that fulfilling worthwhile job I was looking for?