On the up

Well, I never!  More sun, today, to such an extent that sunglasses were required, although it did mean that it started going dark much more quickly when the sun started setting - I couldn't work out why cars were not putting their lights on when it was quite obviously fast descending into twilight until I realised that it was the sunglasses making everything dark!  Still freezing though, which meant that the now obligatory double layers came out again, which were much appreciated!

Here is the link for today's ride: http://sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/868298#id=881616. I am trying to make a conscious effort to keep the speed up, which I think you can tell if you look at the graph - the speed invariably stays above the median line rather than going up and down, so maybe this is evidence that I am starting to get fitter, albeit somewhat slower than I might like.

Maybe things are starting to look up.  Tomorrow, we are going to attempt the 40 miles, so I am looking to do that in 3 hours, which will bring us well within the 11 mph minimum.  Fingers crossed...