What with just gone 96,000 miles cycled to date I do mean to clock that magic 100,000 this year. My return to the simplicity of fixed gear audax should last the year out (though relationships are strained at present since I stripped the threads out of my bottom bracket shell).

I intend to complete another Super Randonneur series. The Dean 300 later in March will be tough but very familiar, the Brevet Cymru 400 at the end of April will be a real challenge – some hard riders may regard the Welsh gradients, mostly legacies of the drove roads, as ideal for fixed but as far as I’m concerned they are mountains. Maybe then the Beast from the East 600 but there again I may ride the new local Lincs Leadout 600 instead. Goring-Scunthorpe-Goring  I believe.

There ought to be a BIG ride though. Paris Brest Paris 1200 is what I’m avoiding commiting to. Days of sleep deprivation while pushing the time limits and trying to eat vegan in rural France when I don’t speak the language sounds daunting. I’ve not ruled it out though – if I do ride I’ll try and finish in time unlike in 2007.

Maybe an audax pace LEJoG instead, I enjoyed the 8 day version a few years, it’d be interesting without gears, long way solo though. Or maybe I’ll just ride round in circles, dreaming not planning, till the speedo clicks over them zeros!

And a picture of the Barracks Lane Frog Orgy