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I’m leaving Boris in his proverbial ditch and trying to catch up a little on my cycling which is currently 3,000 miles down on last year. This escapism was bought about by this little post which caught my eye: Particularly the bit about no winter! So coupled with me getting a place on DC Rainmakers […]
Fun Talk last night was by David Stillwell a Cambridge University Lecturer in Big Data Analytics & Quantitative Social Science and Academic Director of the Psychometrics Centre. Even though it did cost £5 for entry as it was put on by CSAR. Once again I forgot to take my phone so no images of his […]
I love the trail that the HealthFit App produces on the iPhone from my Workout app on the iWatch. This trail is from a 2km stroll along the sea front at Cesarea on our little car tour of Puglia
Interesting to find a couple of old reports on ‘freak weather’ in Whaley Bridge 147 years ago. Whaley Bridge is mentioned twice in the flood chronologies for events in June 1872 and July 1881: On 19th [June 1872] the Goyt was 12 to 14 feet above its normal level. At Whaley Bridge houses near the […]
A lovely heatmap of my 800 cycling trips totalling over 40,000 miles since I joined Strava in July 2012 Clicking the map should let you zoom up and around.
Today’s reading rabbit hole which I disappeared into was driven by these articles all appearing in my Feedly : Cause of hardening of the arteries – and potential treatment – identified A subject close to my heart 🙂 with my elevated blood pressure and after my carotid-femoral pulse measurements from the last Quantified Self conference […]
Mortality rates are still rising in the UK – and everyone is ignoring how many more people are dying. Interestingly my age group is still doing OK as you can see from the above chart. As the article says: Warnings for the future Something is going very wrong. And whatever is going on is unique […]
Whilst searching on the AllTrails website I discovered this little blast from the past which I uploaded to EveryTrail in 2008. The original post came about when I discovered my 1956 YHA card. I then did a plot connecting up the Youth Hostels as much I could remember from when I was 8 years old. […]
A very interesting, for me, cluster analysis of my cycling speed versus distance made using the Strava Wind Analysis website As you can see the shorter the distance ridden the slower I ride 🙁 Obviously when I’m touring on a loaded bike I ride much shorter distances. Interesting that my speed on Audaxes is always […]
Interesting to see the latest number of UK House sales plotted by Dougal as you can see quite a cliff edge. In May 2019 there were only 25,335 sales the previous lowest was in Feb 2009 with 28,507 sales. So this is the lowest monthly sales figures in at least 24 years! Will be very […]