Happy New Year

Well this post has certainly taken a while to get around to. I'm on holiday looking after my darling children who are finally in bed. Kerrie's back at work and the only reason I'm doing this now is that I've discovered the holiday house I'm staying in has a very thoughtful neighbour with an unprotected wireless network I can leech off.

2008 was certainly a heck of a year from a cycling viewpoint. My first Super series in 20 years. My first long ride in 22 years.

Here are the stats for those who are even vaguely interested.

• 13,098 km (I was targeting 14,000)
• 481hrs 13 mins on the bike or 20 days or 12 working weeks
• Average speed 28.04
• Average cadence 86 or 2,483,078 turns of the cranks
• Average Heart Rate 134 or 3,868,982 heart beats
• Calories burned 380,120 or around 50kg of body fat

This year I'm going for 14,000km again. Hopefully I'll have a better last quarter. I'm planning to spend more of my training time going harder, spend more time in the gym and to get a bit more balance. I'll do a super series, and an Oppy. No long rides for me this year. I also plan to do a bit of racing this year, to add a bit of zip. I still plan to lose 8kg (not happening to date) and to do the Alpine in 8 hours.

Most importantly I plan to introduce a little lifestyle balance. The stats speak for themselves. Last year I spent more than 2200 hours at work and only 481 on the bike! I mean I spent around 1800 hours asleep. If you call that balance, you've got a pretty strange way of looking at the world.

I plan to also spend a bit more time on this blog in the next year. For those of you with the patience to read this drivel, I'll try to reward it with a little more consciousness and a little less stream.

Cheers, and happy new year.