5000km!

I've cycled roughly 5000km since 1st March, 2009. I don't yet have anything to compare this with, and I wasn't aiming to cover any particular distance. About 3600km of that is going to and from work (15km round trip), another 1300km will be going to shops, seeing friends, going to gigs etc (going to Camden Town and back is about 30-35km, and I did something like that around once a week, so it sounds about right). Roughly 100km is cycling for the sake of cycling — my ride to Epsom Downs, and the second ride to Reigate (...aka Gatwick Airport). I enjoyed them, except for the significant amount of time I spent stopping at every other fork in the road to check I was still on course — this was frustrating and slowed me down considerably. I've ordered a Garmin eTrex Vista HCx GPS unit, plus the bicycle attachment, which hopefully will make this much more enjoyable. It's possible to load maps from Open Street Map onto the unit, which I hope will be very useful — at least in South East England, where the maps seem to be reasonably complete.