Miles: 167.3
Monday opened the week in grey, windy and chilly fashion. The wind was whipping in off the Irish Sea on this occasion so it made things a bit of a struggle when I turned back into it on my afternoon ride. I only did 16 miles in 65 minutes. There was some drizzle around in the evening so I didn't bother going back out again. Conditions had improved the following day, so I pushed on to 31 miles in the afternoon and topped that up in the evening to finish Tuesday with very nearly 40 miles. It was overcast on Wednesday, but fine, so an hour's ride in the late afternoon saw me to 54 miles. The skies cleared in the evening and the temperature turned chilly, but I managed a second ride that ended with me on 62 miles. For a Wednesday evening that was a good return on the week so far.
The weather now entered a glorious seven day period when it was unseasonably warm and sunny. At times it felt more like late August than late March. I went out on Thursday afternoon, coming back with 80 miles on the clock. I nipped back out in the evening, although by then the wind had whipped up a bit from earlier. I returned home with very nearly 88 miles done. By Friday I was able to dispense with my winter outfit of leggings, hat and thermal gloves. Marvellous! Just over an hour's cycling saw me home with 105 miles. Yet another week where the ton was achieved with the full weekend to come. I wasn't finished of course, as an evening trip resulted in me achieving 113 miles before Saturday had begun.
Saturday afternoon was pleasantly warm so I cycled into town as usual, this time wearing my summer cycling gear. In March? Incredible. Two further trips later in the day took me to 138 miles. Sunday brought the welcome arrival of British Summer Time. Another warm and sunny afternoon meant another bike ride; I came back with 158 miles. There was still time to squeeze in another trundle in the evening, so I finished the week with a commendable 167 miles. Incidentally, that's 32nd place in my all-time hall of records.
The stats:
Time taken to get 100: 6 hrs 33 m.
Total for 2012: 1417.5
2012 average weekly mileage: 118.12
Consecutive 100s: 11
Miles needed for 6000: 4582.5
Percentage of target reached: 23.62%
With 40 weeks to go, average weekly miles needed for 6000: 114.56
It turned out to be a slow time to rack up the first 100 miles of the week. This was odd, as it felt faster than that (the average speed was 15.25 mph). Still, there are a couple of things worthy of note this week: firstly, it was my best individual weekly score since May 2008, if you omit last August's frankly bonkers 341 of the Berwick trip of course. The second thing worth mentioning is that in order to crack 6000 miles in 2012 I'll need to average 115.38 miles per week. I've now pushed my average below the required level. So I'm ahead of schedule. In the last four weeks, my weekly average has leapt from 103 miles to 118. Fruity.
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