At the beginning of the year, I set myself some targets.\u00a0 You might know that on Sunday the first major one passed un-achieved.\u00a0 I sat on my sofa yesterday morning feeling guilty as I ate a sausage butty and watched 36,000 runners completing the Great Manchester 10k Run.<\/p>\n
My official time was 49 minutes 44 seconds, thanks to Fall Down Andy, my good friend and football buddy.\u00a0 His \u00a320 donation is on my JustGiving widget on the right hand of this page, so at least one of my targets has moved in the right direction this week!\u00a0\u00a0 Just Give it a click if you can help Springhill Hospice, too.<\/p>\n
But back to the point… Back in January I didn’t set myself a “miles cycled<\/em><\/strong>” target.\u00a0 Then (and indeed now<\/em>), I didn’t know how much chance I’d get to get the bike out of the shed and ride.\u00a0 Truth is, in the absence of a target I’ve been pretty lax, I think.<\/p>\n To stave off the guilt, I did open the shed yesterday.\u00a0 My OH and I had a leisurely schlep to Hollingworth Lake before I went to pick up Number One Son who was staying with us in advance of his trip to Stamford Bridge today.\u00a0 Yes Les<\/a>, Stamford Bridge.\u00a0 I advised him to take his camera as\u00a0it might be the only trip there he ever makes, unless Man U secure the Premiership before the Chelsea away match some season soon! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Our little Lake cycle took me past 100 miles cycled<\/strong> for the year.\u00a0 This is a good thing \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0But in truth I’m still disappointed at my progress so far \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 \u00a0I think I should be getting 500 miles in this year easily, so I need to pick up the pace and open that shed a lot more often.<\/p>\n