What? Why? How? (sticky)

Hello and welcome,

Thanks for dropping by. I set this site up to track my progress towards the completion of my 2012 challenge. I'm aiming to travel 2,012km in 20.12 (appx) weeks in the gym or on the road. You can sign up yourself (or find out more) at this website.

Early on in the process I realised that the distance I would be covering would get me from Bristol, UK - where I live - to the outskirts of Rome, Italy. So I've been tracking my route along the way following this map.


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I hope to raise a bit of money for Habitat for Humanity in the course of this - there's a justgiving page for that purpose. There is no obligation on anyone to donate - for me this is more about the process.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

30% done...


So that was January. Went very quickly, didn't it.

A month and a bit into the challenge, and I have managed to clock up just over 30% of the total. I'm feeling quite pleased with progress.

I have very vivid memories of Chris Boardman undertaking the hour record in the 90s and 00s, so it was with trepidation that I decided to undertake my own version of the challenge today... No streamlined helmets or carbon fibre monocoque frames for me, just cyberdog, a brown wall and a very welcome air conditioning outlet.

On reflection, maybe I should have gone for the carbon fibre approach - it's the only way I can explain the (negligible) difference in our respective distances. In 1996 Boardman covered 56.375km in the hour. Today, I managed slightly less.. at 34.2km.

In my defence, since the record was set, the UCI have changed the rules, and standardised the specification of the bike that should be used for the hour record. The subsequently set record currently sits at 49.7km, set by Ondřej Sosenka in 2005. So I'm close.

Today's image is from Marrakech. Nice textures.


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