I'm in. I want to continue my once a week commute to work, its a 35 mile round trip and I wussed out a lot (actually almost all of) last winter. We don't really get extreme weather here, just wet generally but I reserve the right to not ride in the occasional snow or ice or the sadly much more frequent 40mph headwinds/crosswinds/tailwinds (scary) I also want to commit to cycling to running club on the Thursday session, it will be 8 miles each way but it feels wrong taking a car.

I have waterproof panniers for my utility bike so I can even commute on the weeks I need to take my works laptop home, I just have to accept the heavier utility bike. It feels like a tank in comparison to my road bike but I actually really enjoyed commuting on the "supertanker" last Friday, laptop, panniers and all! I just need a different mindset and save the road bike commute for less filthy weather.

I have good lights, reflectives, all the winter kit I could possibly need as when I had a shorter commute I used to do it at least three times a week over winter so I have no excuse on that front at all.

I also want to keep up my errand running on my bike over winter, I managed 24 miles on Saturday between nipping to the post office, library, farm shop and supermarket. Its a good way of getting in some easy paced miles. I am determined to try to eliminate my car use for these journeys. I will be grocery shopping online from now on and getting the bulk of my shopping delivered, only buying fruit and veg, meat etc on a weekly basis and I don't tend to buy them from the supermarket anyway.

Hopefully this will keep me going.