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Prudential Ride London Surrey 100 2019 Results sorted by Time

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 11:12:51 +0000

Results are all messed up again because of people cutting the course due to cut off time, but here are the ‘results’ (Google sheet no longer available — link removed, post kept for posterity):

Prudential Ride London Surrey 100 2018 Results sorted by Time

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:12:51 +0000

I am sure someone has done this already but if not….

Right here we go again. The results are a complete mess this year - I think because of the weather a lot of people cutting out parts of the ride and so on. Using the last 6 mile speed as a guide - looks like Oliver Richardson won men’s (wasn’t he supposed to be a ride captain 🙈) and Jenny Corser won the women? 💪💪

Prudential Ride London Surrey 100 2017 Results sorted by Time

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:12:51 +0000

I mean I really should be doing my Phd, but due to popular demand, I put together a google sheet (no longer available — link removed, post kept for posterity).

Oxford Restfulness and Readiness Tracker

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:12:51 +0000

Excited to announce that we are developing ‘Oxford Restfulness and Readiness Tracker’, a platform to help optimise student athletes maximise their performance and minimise mental health issues. We have recently been awarded funding from the IT Innovations Challenge and will be working with the athletes and coaches in OUBC and OUWBC over the next Boat Race season to develop the product.

We really think we have a great team and a unique opportunity to work with elite level athletes to develop something really exciting.

Prudential Ride London Surrey 100 2016 Results sorted by Time

Wed, 03 Aug 2016 11:12:51 +0000

I have again sorted the results by time and so on. There is a second tab just for women. I have put them on a google spreadsheet this year (the spreadsheet is no longer available — link removed, post kept for posterity).

The top 200 results are listed below. In total 70 people broke the magical 25 mph average speed, although most starva uploads calculated a route that was a mile or two short of 100.

5k test

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:12:51 +0000

I had a 5k test on the rowing machines in the gym today. I did one a couple of months back and it went really well. It was a 20s PB, and I just smashed it.

Today, was a different story. I had come in with some injuries over the past few weeks and my preparation had been less than ideal. I had a bit of a sore throat that was also playing on my mind, but more importantly, there was just a lot riding on the 5k. Whereas the 5k 2 months ago didn’t matter, it was just a ’let’s see where we are’ thing, today was an important selection criteria.

Thank you Mrs. Smith for the Lovely Chocolate Cake

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 11:12:51 +0000

Watching England beat the Australian’s in the Ashes (in particular at Trent Bridge this week) is pure joy, pure pleasure. I am just watching the highlights of day 1 at Trent Bridge (SPOILER: with Australia all out for 60 in the first innings), and well, I am just sitting here, grinning.

It’s a weird game cricket, it can be painful watching it (or listening on TMS), when your team is giving their wickets away, or bowling badly, but some of the moments, which may happen once every few months if not years, are so powerful, that you can’t help but fall in love.

Why I hate Matlab

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:12:51 +0000

As a programming language, MATLAB is not my favourite. Yes, you can prototype things in it quickly, but when people start building libraries that then others build more libraries on, you end up getting stuck in it.

If you are not sucked into it yet, don’t. Please. Save yourself.

Here are a couple of reasons why it is a poor choice to do any proper development in (and these are simple (or petty) reasons. I also have many problems with the fact that it has a closed source and its insanely expensive price for anyone other than students, but that is for another day.

Prudential Ride London Surrey 100 2013 Results sorted by Time

Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:12:51 +0000

Due to popular demand, here are all the Men and Women results for the Prudential Surrey 100 mile Ride that took place on Sunday August 4th in and around London.

There are clearly some mistakes in there (such as Phils and Nigels on the women’s list), but they are all directly from the Organisers website.

They of course have all the rights to these results.