Great run today and a couple of milestones for me. All of the rides so far have had a pretty long stop in the middle, usually to read the papers and stuff some Maccy Dees down my gob. Today there was only a minor stop at the Tesco Metro on the way back to pick up some bread and milk and all McDonalds got from me was a grunted expletive as I cycled past. Also good is I extended out the distance I’m cycling with new route:
This one is 6.8 miles and as is true of any route in Southampton has its fair share of hills on which makes for a nice mix of coasting and huffing and puffing. I felt really good after and it’s amazing to look back on only just over a week ago Mousehole Lane had me pushing my bike up it on foot while coughing out a lung. Now it’s really easy 
My aim now is to try and get to 10 miles in the next fortnight or so. To help chart that goal I’m probably going to get a cycling computer this weekend.
Any suggestions what would be a good one?
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Youc could do worse than getting a polar heart rate monitor combined cycle computer. I have one and it means you keep a check on your heart rate, at our age always a good thing. Pricey at aroud £90, but the cycle computer is cool, it is all wireless, and you just ware a chest strap for the heart rate end.
Keep up the good work and you can do the London to Brighton with us next June, 2nd year for us, and we raised nearly £900 this year for the BHF.
Gaz - also recommend Polar Heart Rate Monitor and computer combined. You can track roughly how many calories you’re burning, how hard you’re pushing plus all the normal comp related stuff as well.
I’ve also had a couple of wireless sigma & cateye but Polar beat them for reliability.
I went for the cheap cateye one in the end
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