Compliment or Insult?
Using SmaterStats, I was reviewing the referring links, links that people use to find my site, and I saw some hits from a forum I hadn't heard of before, http://www.m4e.com. Naturally I decided to read the posts and see what was up. What I found was that someone had posted a link to my Deals Gap video, http://gormanonline.com/files/folders/govideos/entry9.aspx, and said something close to, "Nice video even if it's in fast forward." Here's the link to the thread, http://www.m4e.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33273&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0. Translation tool here: http://translate.google.com/translate_t.
I actually thought of the accusation as a compliment. So I registered and posted. I thanked them for the compliment but assured them the video was not accelerated. Yet the posts continued that it was. I had the feeling at this point someone was just trying to get me riled up.
So a comparison video was posted. The basic argument was that this new video, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4279623571612392390, was knee down in every corner and yet only a minute faster than mine. It simply wasn't possible that I could be riding "relaxed" and they could be going fast yet there not be that much difference in time. Well, I worked that out.
The Overlook is at mile 2.5. The North Carolina/Tennessee state line is at 11.1 miles. 8.6 miles travled with a one minute (11 minutes vs 12 minutes) difference is a 6.9 sec/mile difference. Map here: http://www.tailofthedragon.com/freestuff/map_640.jpg
Now lets move that time to a typical 2.5 mile race track and we find that there would be a 17.4 second per lap difference between the two of us.
That is a "relaxed" pace compared to a fast pace. Also I suspect that a real "race" pace would be somewhere in the mid 8 minute range if you stayed in your lane and 7 minute range if the road was closed and you used both lanes.
How fast do you need to go?