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That’s me now done 55,000 miles of cycling, since April 2003. Which works out, doing an average of 3,235 miles each year! Of course, some years done well less than that. Others way more! The most in single year, was back in 2013, when I did 6,118.4 miles!

Here is the total number of miles for each year.

2003 – 1,148.7 miles
2004 – 1,585.6 miles
2005 – 2,091.8 miles
2006 – 2,166.3 miles
2007 – 1,072.7 miles
2008 – 1,807.5 miles
2009 – 2,685.9 miles – did the End to End cycle (JOGLE).
2010 – 4,001.3 miles
2011 – 5,066.0 miles
2012 – 5,289.5 miles – longest ever cycle – 101.62 miles.
2013 – 6,118.4 miles – most ever in a single year.
2014 – 5,334.9 miles
2015 – 2,341.4 miles
2016 – 4,583.8 miles
2017 – 4,147.5 miles
2018 – 3,158.5 miles
2019 – 2,357.9 miles
2020 – 44.8 miles

Here are some of my favourite cycling photos, during that time 🙂

WOW! Was this really 11 years ago?

27 July 2019

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Who remembers this photo, from 11 years ago?!?!? It just popped up on my Facebook Memories. Got to say, we both really did look great in Lycra 🙂

More photos of us two, can be seen at www.gordon-valentine.com/zenphoto/gordon-mike/

Now 48,000.3 miles of cycling, since 2003!

14 July 2017

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That’s me now done 48,000.3 miles of cycling, since April 2003! Which is a hell of a long way! Should get that to over 50,000 miles before the end of the year!!

I will leave you, with some of my favourite cycling photos!

What to do these all have in common?

18 April 2016

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What to all these photos have in common? Other than the fit had in Lycra of course! LOL 😀

July 2015 cycling statistics

5 August 2015

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Here are my cycling statistics for July 2015. This month, I did only did 258.1 miles, was hoping to reach at least 500 miles. But my bike was off the road for a good number of weeks!!

I was sure that my bike, was a write off. But lucky someone, I know had one look at it and said it was easy for him to fix! In the end, it only cost me £25! Just hope, that in August. I have a better cycling month!!!

Here is the data from July 2015:-

Total cycles: 12
Total Distance: 258.17 miles
Total Time: 20:55:23 (h:m:s)
Avg Speed: 12.3 mph
Max Time: 2:52:21 (h:m:s)
Max Speed: 35.9 mph
Avg Distance: 21.51 miles
Max Distance: 35.06 miles (Single cycle)

Data from: Garmin Connect.

Here are my favourite cycling photos from the month:-

Want I was doing with back in 2013!!

30 July 2015

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Sorry it’s been a slow news week! Not really been doing much at all, since my bike died on my last week! All going well, should get him back in the next day or so!! Not been out a cycle now since 17th July! The second, I get him back. I will make sure, I get in lots of new cycles! Which of course, will mean lots of new Lycra photos!!

So I will leave you, with photos that were taken on this day back in 2013!

Looking back to 2008!

14 July 2015

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I can’t believe that these photos date back to 2008! It just about, still feels like yesterday. When Mike, my boyfriend of the time and myself cycling in the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, while wearing our sexy lycra gear.