It's a start...

9 days into the challenge and I've not pedalled away on the bike as much as I had intended. Car:Bike ratio is at 3:1 at the moment, and the challenge (should that be challenge squared??) is on to peg the tally back to even stevens as soon as possible. I've come to thinking that this challenge is now like the Hare and the Tortoise (re-badged to be the Mazda and the Cervelo/EMC combo).

On the upside, I am very confident that I have not driven as much as I could have in the past 9 days either. Many kms have been racked up with trips to Bunnings as the reno's hit full steam ahead over the past fortnight. But even there I've saved up trips until I simply had to go to move onto the next thing.

I can say quite confidently that I'm now very, very aware of my driving, and the fact that every 25km in the car is a lazy hour on the bike.

Fortunately I'm back to work tomorrow and the daily commute begins! Also training will kick off again for bike season 2012. Hopefully by weeks' end the figures will be a little more respectable, and I can avoid the embarrassment of a public failure in 2 weeks.

oh, and in this tale, the Tortoise whups the Hare!