2012 - Week 28 Graph

Another four weeks on, here's how the race is looking:

I'm genuinely amazed that I've still got a lead over 1998. Not by much though, as you can see by the way the lines almost converge at the top right-hand side of the graph.

Over these four weeks I added 527.9 miles this year. That's just 2 miles less in total than the previous four weeks. Blimey, that's either a show of consistency or - more likely - evidence of how my cycling activities have become regimented and predictable in terms of when I get out and how far I go, week in, week out. Either way, it's an average of 131.97 per week. 1998 yielded 560.1 at 140.02 miles per week in the same period.

The leads currently stand so:

1998 - 29.3
2009 - 424.7

So what do I need to keep ahead this time? In 1998, weeks 29 - 32 yielded 559.2 miles at an average of 139.8 per week. That's only 0.8 miles less than the previous four weeks. What was I saying about consistency? This was 14 years ago too. The individual weekly scores were 123.5, 100.4, 190.7 and 144.6. That low second score will help me in the chase, although I clearly made up for it the next week. The new target to aim for is thus 3958.8 miles, so that's a target of adding another 530 miles exactly at an average of 132.5 every week. That's 8 miles more per week than last time.

Continuing with last week's bonus, here's the graph showing the relative performances of 1998 and 2012 so far.

Fingers crossed that the graph still looks like this next time, eh readers?