831.208244 miles

I cycled to the New Forest with my brother at the weekend and did about 200 kilometres in 3 days. About 130 of them were on the first day because we forgot to book a campsite and the only one with free space was a bit further than we'd hoped.

Now, if you remember this post then you'll also remember this picture...



... which meant I got a nice little surprise when we stopped at the top of one particularly long and gruesome hill and I looked at the "Total. Distance. Ever" setting on my cycle computer:



Expect another photo in another 12,040 kilometres :-)

83.0773284 miles

I'll try to stop being a bicycle bore after this, but I spotted my total distance traveled on the cycle computer today - 133.7 kilometers...



... which made me smile a little bit.

Riding The Company Bike

I finally got round to buying a bike this weekend (it's a Specialized Tricross for anyone that cares). I'm pretty pleased with it so far, although it looks a *little* bit girly with the front and back panier racks on. I've already clocked up 20km trying frantically to keep up with my brother on a little trek through the rat-runs of around North London yesterday, which nearly killed me.

We're planning a pedal-powered road trip down to Cornwall some time in May so I need to do a *lot* of training to get up to scratch since my exercise regime to date has consisted of, er, absolutely nothing, and we'll be aiming to do about 90-100km a day on the trip. Yikes.

Incidentally, if you run a small business there's a great tax scheme called "Cycle To Work" which lets you save about 35% off the cost of the bike by reclaiming the VAT and offsetting depreciation against corporation tax. You just need to have a half-arsed cover story about using the bike for travel to work - e.g. cycling to a train station qualifies.

That's what I've done, so I will now be literally riding the company bike every morning and evening :-).