After mapping out a longer bike ride earlier in the week I thought I'd give it a try tonight. It was all going quite well but one wrong turn, several dead ends trying to get out of a housing estate and 2 extra miles later and I got home. However, because of the extra 2 miles I got caught in a flipping big downpour and got soaked! All in all it was just over 12 miles so not far off race distance now.
Distance - 12.34 miles
Max speed - 24.67 mph
Ave speed - 14.74 mph (including dead ends in the housing estate!)
Time - 50:14 mins
You need to get one of those Suunto watches that has a built in GPS. "Ed .... you are going off course. You are going off course!!"
Keep it up buddy - your making good progress. I should go training wth you, but I would only slow you down.