Arthur Stanley Eddington
The stimulus to go through my training diaries was to calculate my Eddington number. Named after the astrophysicist Arthur Eddington who invented the concept, your Eddington number is the number of days you have cycled at least that many miles, e.g I had ridden at least 56 miles in a day on 56 days in my life, therefore for me E=56. However, to get to E=57, I am going to need another 7 rides of 57+ miles because six of the rides counting for E=56 are of 56 miles and therefore will not count for E=57!
UPDATE: July 2014 E=62, target is to get to 70 before the end of the year.
2 more Eddington rides this week brings up the E=57! 🙂