Another one for the geeks July 8th, Day 20: Casper, WY to Lusk, WY: 106 miles, 2857 ft. ascent Exciting news: We have updated our Route and Tracker page to include ride statistics from the Garmin GPS for the rides done so far. From this we can calculate that our average speed over the whole ride so far (excluding parts where the Garmin malfunctioned) is a bit under 15 and a half miles per hour. We've also started adding links to some great videos automatically generated from our GPS data by Relive, like this one of us crossing the Togwotee pass. Today we were pleased to ride another 6 hour century on the first day of the third segment of our ride. However, we were even more pleased to receive an email from Nick East on the subject of Mairs-Heggie points, proving that at least some of our readers are as geeky as us. We reproduce this thoroughly excellent email below in its entirety: RE: Mairs-Heggie Points Hi Chris (and Alastair) Hope it all continues to go well with tail winds and kind roads. Congrats on exceeding the £100k fundraising point – really inspiring work! I imagine you have thought of this, given you have plenty of time on the road for pointless naval gazing…. …but I found myself reading your ride descriptions thinking about other MH sequences that might give you some more daily milestones to aim for and check off with a celebratory banana. There are lots to choose from. Ratio of number of flies accidentally swallowed today to the ratio for the whole ride, volume in litres of Gatorade consumed. Gun-racks spotted by overtaking pick-ups as proportion of the whole, etc. Of course, the most obvious is the vertical distance – easily found during the ride provided you have a cycling computer that shows you elevation gain. So I give you – Mairs-Heggie Peaks – the point on each day where you’ve climbed the same ratio of the day as of the whole ride. For reference a table below with your MH points and peaks for each day and for extra geekiness a dual axis plot based on your blogged graph (distance miles on the left axis, elevation gain in feet on the right axis). Looks like you have a couple of back to back monster climbing days right at the end! At least you’ll be altitude trained from the Rockies, and with titanium arses by then. Impossible to know without GPS analysis of the ride profile, tour-de-france style, but I wonder if there are any days when the MH Points and Peaks are reached simultaneously other than the obvious example of the last riding day? Happy cycling. Nick. > 0 miles Day MH Point (mile) MH Peak (ft of climbing) 0 0 0 1 0.5583 97.6247 2 2.0542 186.3302 3 3.1832 549.7712 4 3.9911 452.9322 5 9.8934 917.3252 6 9.4334 1052.9599 7 11.5549 516.2900 8 10.3427 430.8194 9 9.4811 383.6591 10 19.0127 695.0414 11 8.5683 352.3499 12 19.8445 380.9788 13 16.8910 246.6251 14 25.1387 2064.3745 15 25.9181 1559.7578 16 25.6628 527.5198 17 41.7544 1187.9588 18 40.6129 1198.9325 19 38.2711 1430.7500 20 32.2135 2774.0191 21 26.3299 865.2895 22 27.2656 1757.9371 23 56.3074 1522.7136 24 36.9073 618.3280 25 39.4159 627.5706 26 39.7616 831.4617 27 64.4849 648.8285 28 60.2886 1610.4256 29 56.4039 1987.4532 30 49.7415 850.1317 31 63.9506 1305.1435 32 42.4325 995.7022 33 4.2791 0.0000 34 82.4581 1831.1946 35 56.2185 478.5052 36 68.1411 618.4020 37 66.9580 1180.2995 38 57.0444 998.0244 39 62.6901 1135.9028 40 75.7773 1279.8119 41 81.5730 1344.7572 42 72.5898 1377.1196 43 69.5339 1837.0026 44 75.9717 4653.2626 45 75.7081 5861.3614 46 60.0000 2500.0000