Miles: 110.6
After a promising start, the weather turned dank and drizzly so this was one of those attritional weeks where you have to take your chances when they are presented to you and battle your way to 100.
Monday afternoon was clear, sunny and very pleasant. I managed 16.5 miles in two spurts that afternoon. This became 25 miles once I'd been out and come back in the evening. Tuesday was similarly pleasant, so I went out with my camera first to see if I could find any snaps for this blog. Taking the camera back home, I set off again and then rolled home at teatime with almost 43 miles on the clock. I was back out in the evening, closing the day with 51 miles. Come Wednesday, the weather had worsened and it was grey and drizzly. That chilly eastern Russian wind was back. I still got myself out for an hour, pushing on to 65 miles. This also meant that I sailed through the 1000 mark for the year. I was back out again later that evening, arriving home with 73 miles. A three-day 73? That should have been the platform for a big score, surely?
On Thursday afternoon I got distracted by having to make several phonecalls to Sky TV, so didn't get out on the bike. Come the evening, light rain had arrived. So that was that. Friday was grey and cold. The rain radar told me that there was a band of slow-moving rain heading this way from the south west. It had almost arrived by the time I got out on the bike. Spots became light rain before too long and it was just starting to get firmer when I came home 40 minutes later with 82 miles. There was still misty drizzle in the air later in the evening, but I went out again anyway and arrived home with 90 miles. Only 10 more required and all weekend to do it.
Saturday was again grey and cold. Rain started to fall at the time when I'd usually cycle into town, so I didn't go. The rain was around until late in the evening, but I had an appointment at the pub anyway so no miles were added to the overnight score. At least Sunday afternoon was fine. The bitterly cold eastern wind was a blustery factor I could have done without. Having been delayed by football on TV, I only squeezed in half an hour of cycling in late afternoon, moving on to almost 97 miles. I was back out there at 9:30 pm though, eventually coming back with 110 for the week.
The stats:
Time taken to get 100: Not recorded.
Total for 2013: 1051.8
2013 average weekly mileage: 105.18
Consecutive 100s:6
Miles needed for 6000: 4948.2
Percentage of target reached: 17.53%
Required average weekly mileage: 117.81
Meanwhile, back in 2012...
I did 137.1 miles which took me to a total of 1113 exactly. So 2012's lead is now 61.2 miles, up 26.5 miles on last week.
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