Mission 2 completed :-) :-)

After being told off on Sunday for not writing on here lately, I thought I'd better do something. The main reason for not writing was because I hadn't done much cycling, since last weekends epic 41miles over 2 days.
I did bike to work 3 times (once to the care home, and twice to the lifehouse aka hostel). I'm normally a fair weather cyclist, however I got bit caught out cycling home Friday afternoon. It was clear in the morning, so I biked, then it started raining throughout the day. About 4:30pm my hubby rang to see if I wanted picking up, but at that point it wasn't raining much so I said I'd be ok. Well.........not long after setting off, it pelted it down!!!!! and I got a 'little' bit wet :-(

I had a busy weekend, so didn't to do much cycling over the weekend, and lost a bit of momentum/motivation for it. The telling off I got ;-) mixed with the kick up the backside on Monday, I decided I would do as planned in my mind and cycle to Colchester.

This morning when I woke up it was looking rather cloudy and windy. However, after discussions with hubby and checking out route/weather I decided I'd give it a go.

I decided on the route the Colchester United fans took when they did it
http://www.cycle-route.com/routes/Ipswich_to_Colchester_via_Raydon-Cycle-Route-3157.html
slightly editted from my house, and arriving at the Salvation Army (Colchester)

The first part seemed to take forever and due to quite a few open fields the wind was quite strong. Apparently it was 'suppose' to be a relatively flat route, which to be honest possibly was looking back. It didn't feel like it whilst doing it. Once I got nearer Colchester it was ok, until the killer hill right at the end (Balkerne Hill), didn't make it up without stopping.
Did feel a sense of acheivement on reaching the hall. Not sure the people at the hall believed me to start with, but then they saw the bike and realised I was telling the truth :-)

There was no way I was biking back, this time, so I biked to the train station and got the train back to Ipswich. I will do both ways eventually, but one way is a big enough acheivement for now.

Plus having looked at the amount of miles I've biked this month so far:
http://www.mapmyride.com/workouts/
I've done about 126.8miles. which I think is pretty good (averages out 6 miles a day).

I shall keep going........... :-)