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Hippy - I commute muswell hill to commercial street, so about 20km a day there and back, with some hills. Plus I go and visit mates round Acton way quite often on my way home which means I do do the odd 40km every week or so. Have done a few longer rides - actually tried to ride to Portsmouth last summer but only got as far as Guildford and pussied out and caught the train. I'm more used to riding fixed now though cos that was when i'd just bought it. Would be a good excuse to get in some proper training.
lpg - thanks for the advice - must be amazing cycling round the continent.
Done a lot of travelling and met a few distance cyclists - one Swedish guy sticks in my mind who was riding from Stockholm to Singapore - I met him on the Kazakh China border and was so jealous of him... Been thinking about proper touring cycling since then but never really got round to it.