I decided that I’d celebrate starting my seventh decade with some personal challenges, this is the first. Time to gird my loins and start cycling in earnest, I’m signed up to ride further than ever in my life. The previous 46 miles ride around London have prepared me for the ‘flat’ part, now I have to train for the hills, both getting up them without having to walk, and down them without meeting someone coming the other way, or an inconvenient pothole!