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for the third year in a row, siggimus survives cycle to work

it is now five days since siggimus unmounted his trusty steed, & he has sufficiently recovered to bring you:

ctw 2011 report, extended version

in yet another victory of stubbornness and cantankerous determination, siggimus manages to cycle more than last year. last year he did a venerable 400,82 km, but this time around he went all the way up to 11 and turned in 528,42 km

yes, ladies & gentleman, that is, by siggimuses reckoning, roughly half the way to the moon

ctw 2011 in bullets:

• turned in full house, 15 days, or 100%
• going a total of 528,42 km
• taking approximately 27 hours 13 mins and 15 seconds, or so to do it
• which equates to roughly 19,3885950158155 km/h on average
• that’s an average of 35,23 km per day
  • and 2 hours, 5 mins and 38 seconds per day on the bike
• this is 21,23 km over the 14 kms it takes to get to work and back
  • each day
  • a total of 318 km over the 210 km required to get to work and back 15 times
• that’s like going 35,2 times to work and back, in 15 days
  • or to use a bigger number, 251,63% more cycling than required to merely go to work and then go home again
• 2 shortest days were 22,18 km
  • one of those was in a cloud of ash, in full ninja gear
• longest 2 days were around 60 km
  • first there was 58,9 km
  • then there was 61,22 km
• there were bunnies, plenty of bunnies
• mostly, the weather was beautiful
  • there was no snow
  • well, none to speak of, and not while siggimus was cycling
• compared to 2010, this:
  • equals 100% in days
  • is 31,83% over the distance 400,82 km
  • longest day 61,22 km vs. 77,55 last year
• compared to 2009, this is:
  • better than 85,7% in days
  • 129,28% over the distance 230,47 km
• compared to colleagues this is:
  • fifth place, out of 41
  • 167,27% of the overall average of 315,9 km
  • 104,1% of the overall average of 14,4 days
  • still, only 52,89% of what the #1 dood did (1018,3 km! (he’s french!!))
• the company ended up crushing the competition in its size group, plus:
  • placed 15 in number of days total, with 14,41 (all the other companies at the top have 8 employees or less, vs. our 41)
  • placed 3rd in total number of kms, with 315,9 (winner has 15 employees, 2nd place has 5)
• took a few pics along the way. you’ll find everything cycle-related here, start by scrolling past this post

now it’s your turn. tell siggimus he’s superhuman, that his stubbornness deserves a prize

while endlessly proud of himself, siggimus is quite possibly & probably dead

on the last day of cycle to work, he somehow managed to go 77,55 km, bringing the grand total for those 13 days to 400,82 km

but how did siggimus do it? what’s the secret?

superhuman strength was involved, of course, but mostly it was fed by an overgrown stubbornness, that inability to surrender to the facts and admit defeat, even in the face of death or serious mutilation

in short, during cycle to work 2010, siggimus managed to:

ps: now with updates!

• cycle all 13 days
• get a bit ‘lost’ a few times
• do 400,82 km total
• which took 21:13:28 in the saddle
• … an average of 30,83 km per day
• … and 170,38 km more than last year
• … which took an average of 01:37:57 per day
• eat 7 flies
• … an average of 0,53846 flies per day
• go about 50% over his goal of 20 km per day
• do 216,32 km over the ‘necessary’ 182 km (14 per day)
• have a shortest day of 17,35 km (only one way)
• longest day was 77,55 km
• longest day took 04:40:09
• have only one flat tire
• discover that cycling 14 km with a bottle of pepsi will shake it violently
• discover that violently shaking a bottle of pepsi will make it squirt violently upon opening
• discover that half a bottle of pepsi is not a lot when you’re very thirsty

yay!

you’ll find all the juicy bits (read: uninteresting anal details) here

(feel free — nay, feel obliged! — to lavish all kinds of praise on siggimus for this feat in comments down under)

& siggimus survived!!

siggimus is quite happy about his achievement in the whole thing, especially after losing a whole week to a sprained neck (walking that one day)

in numbers

21 – days in total

14 – working days (thus days counted in thingy)

4 – days missed (because of sprained neck ‘sports’ injury)

12 – days counted (you’re allowed to make up for missed days, as long as you go to work)

1 – days out of those 12 walked (permitted!)

11 – days cycled

19,21 – average distance per day, in km

19 – trips cycled (not necessary to cycle both ways)

230.470 – total distance cycled, in metres

13:34:38 – total time spent cycling

32,17 – longest day-distance, in km

97% – infection rate of cycling bug

1-2 – days siggimus will rest before getting back into saddle

although siggimus will barely manage the workplace average in distance, siggimus takes comfort in two things. 1) if he had actually cycled 3 more days, at average of 20,52 km per day (if you only count the days cycled), siggimus woulda been a bit over the average 🙂 2) the workplace average is offset by seriously lunaticcy people who had cycled over 580 kms last time siggimus checked