31st december ...in the nick of time...

Persuaded Luke to get out in the milder, and mist free, conditions
Did the Harrington run, celebrating 1500 miles as we entered Loddington!
Good, but not quite up to the 5000+ miles TTT's maganged this year (LEJOG again/London to Geneva/ and some killing AUDAX's up up to 180m per day!! respect mate!)
16.5m 1h16m @ 12.9mph 779ft climb

total since garmin 2008-250m 2009 - 2750m 2010 - 1504m
total 331 hours of pedalling Overall average 14.5mph ad a huge 211,391ft climbing!!

Just been watching Rob Lilwalls inspiring talk & other videos on
http://vimeo.com/groups/6916/videos/11154268
Thanks to Cal Rae for the link

30th December ...better got those last miles knocked off....

Isham Church in the mist (click to enlarge)
....So on a cool misty morning I set off to go around Kettering following the route 'pioneered' by me & Michiel back in October.
Took a slight wrong turning & ended up in Isham but as my legs were tired I was grateful about the slightly shorter disrance!
Will try to get Luke out on a 'Pylon' run tomorrow to get the last 12 miles & 1500 for the year
26.2 miles 1h48m @ 15.2mph 1140ft climb

12th December "back on the road again!" KetteringCC Club Run

After a frosty frustrating four weeks, a gap in the Arctic weather opened up and had to be taken advantage of.
So I pedalled over to Sainburys for 0930 and seven of us headed North under Tom's leadership. With likely frost on smaller roads we stuck to the main roads as we swept around through Market Harborough & close to Brixworth & home in sunny chilly pretty windless conditions.
I was presently suprised how the old legs kept going and finished strongly at a decent average speed.
Young Chris joined the group - he cycled LEJOG solo, and camping this year - Respect! I followed his blog at the time. (I'll hunt out link & paste here...)
Shame snow is predicted again I still have 37.26 miles to do by 31/12 for the 1500 mile 2010 total!
38.8m 2h30m @ 15.5mph 1697 ft climb 2010 total 1462.74m!