Recent memory can displace the past but I think the first volume of Cycling Anthology should stand as one of the better cycling books of 2012. Here’s a quick competition to win a copy of the first edition, plus a Mémoires du Peloton photo calendar for 2013.
To win, just leave a comment below with your guess for the word count of The Cycling Anthology and we’ll see if the wisdom of crowds can do the rest.
To help anchor people’s guesses note the book is small enough to fit in a jersey pocket but 271 pages long.
The Rules
- Please give your answer by comment only so I don’t have to collate emails and tweets
- Post under any pseudonym you like, I will only need the name and address should you win
- If there’s a tie then it’ll be random selection
- The winning pick will be made on Friday
That’s it, the winner gets the book plus a calendar, the second best pick wins a calendar. It’s only a quick competition but since I can’t have the same calendar three times on the wall, you’re in luck.
Thanks to Prendas for sending me some calendars and The Cycling Anthology book
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30K words.
This looks like a great book!
68,100
59804
Okay I’ll start, I have a copy so when I win give the first prize to second place and I’ll settle for the calendar, I am about to go out, the wife is waiting, so quickly, 271 pages but first 7 or so are preamble, and their are some part text pages, say 260 x 260 = 67,600
ciao for now.
Ha! Ha! I am too slow for words, (pun intended)
90,000 words
Who’s doing the actual counting??
My guess is 65,000
113,288 words
Roughly 47600
108,502 (approx.)
Enjoyable little book, guess 97500 words.
45000
I guess…
83,654
My guess will be 85,000.
I’ll try 69,000
80,990
Great blog by the way, many thanks.
im guessing 74,500 words..Cheers
50,000
72.000 words
Best wishes to all for 2013
66,000
78,000 words is my guess
6219, cheers
70,000 words ?
71,697
57 895
62,000
Ooooh about 65,003 I reckon!
let’s go with 58000
27100
72,800
86720
63,000 words, love the book and the calendar looks ace.
I’m in CANADA and never win, I’ll say 54 742 words.
81,050
49,000ish?
Just enough, no more. seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and sixty
About 73241 words I reckon!
54,200 words
59842
My guess is 67,750 words
69,427
I think 69,427
56,237
66,101
64,000
67,500
65503
99.999
44444
56349
70,086
94562
49995
35,000
63,763
76,252… it kinda depends on if they spell Sanremo like San Remo & if you count Mons-en-Pévèle as one word (hyphenated) or as three words. thanks for more free stuff! first the .ica race calendar & now this book & well, calendar.
59,124
83,500
Guess ” MPD ” , meant more than the 6000+ he offered .
Book will be far more interesting than my blogs and i have space on the wall for a calender .
68000+ or – 100
73,147
121.900
60,000
74,521 pages
Great go to site anyways
89,700.
68,749
72000 at least…
70,460
118,500
77,217
125,001
Hi IR,
I’ll say 38,000 (to paraphrase a Mr. FL). Let’s see if anyone can guess who I’m thinking of
Cheers.
My guess 75555
MARINO
My guess is 67667
lol
58500
78452 it is
52,023
52,023 to be precise
75,227
Cripes didn’t intend a double.
84,000
Mmm 24,500 words. Looking forward to a great read!
120,000
62,694
65,000
62900
I’m gonna go for 58,760
I’d say 71500 words.
54,200
Mmmm seeing 54200 is already used….how about 54250
56,789. If you ain’t got symmetry you ain’t got love for the numbers.
90,001…give or take a noun
53011
Surely.
73,901
64842
63,414
68,101 must be right!
63.127
98,323
44,000
63013
I’ll go for the same number as Adan Hansen raced last year. 16025. I know it’s not going to be correct. Thanks for all the good stuff squire
71283
56,000 – hope you didn’t have to count them all
69, 192
69,420
81,356
63486
52601
71,250
78,498
I am guessing 600 words and a lot of images.
A picture’s worth 1000 words
68,329
67,283
I just got the book last week, but wouldn’t mind a calendar. Going with 53,000 words.
77,790
44696
13,600
kvv
49500
60,157 words.
Hoping for second place as I’d love the calendar.
Uhh I’ll go with 67,821
56938
43,000
My guess is 56,975 words.
88,500
73455
Stab in the dark…89,652 wordcount.
Thanks for the opportunity and thanks for inrng.
42,000
64,392
52483
72,222
9,950
86742
60975 give or take
67,750 f0r me.
76,253 words please.
67543
66784
81000
78,420
62300
49000
67538
67895
65392
I would guess 67, 103
69105
66 999
67735
58,500
65,723
48966
48804
52250
65000
84958
I’m going for 65432.
71256
58763
72391
68432
Hey Inrng, my guess is 73,750.
Keep up the good work…
72,380
22,561
78,500.
85,000
Busy thread
77739
69974
54900
Lets go with… 62,588. Didn’t check every previous entry though, apologies if it appears I am cherry picking…
67666
75,320
83280
81600
67751
52,600 and thanks for the contest.
66,666 surely not!
How about 86,352
23,712 words
62,407
81 546
53,600
81,721.
50,001
74,752
66266
32,195 words
106,800 words. Thanks for all the good stuff. Good fortune for 2013.
87,963
67,289
70,010 words!
63,999 !
64,664
39850
40,137
52418
Well, my guess is 81250 words
Sounds like the book I would want in my cycling library.
My guess is 81,408 words total.
48,000
80,040
I’m taking a stab at 56,111.
78765 words
Guess 78765 words, give or take a few.
Guess 78,765 words, give or take a few.
Or 42. If you know what I mean.
Oops, sorry Inrng. I didn’t mean to post multiple times – mobile device hiccups.
66666
68 024
61285
70,940 … I hope!
77,212 and thanks for another year of excellent blog posts!
82,006
62,010?
63124
65550 words
67069
64 583
61999
76,378
So many guesses, thanks and many were close.
Did the wisdom of the crowd work? Perhaps but bikecellar’s arithmetic above seems to have helped many get close.
The correct answer is 61,640 words according to publisher Lionel Birnie.
First prize: Serge with 61,285 and just 355 words off the target.
Second prize: Graham with 61,999 and just 359 words off the target.
To claim your prize just email me (contact details at the top of the page).
Great fun, and a great book, I have just started chapter 12, Fotheringham on Freire, every chapter has been of good quality, interesting and insightful, I am looking forward to volume two. Well done to Serge and Graham, Ah well at least I have the consolation of a Procycling Mag calendar to put up.
ciao for now.
word count, lets say 72000, does that count as a comment?
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