A week ago my daughter came up to me with a piece of paper and asked if I could check her adding up. She wanted to make 100. I looked at the sheet and there was a thirteen, 3 fourteens and 3 fifteens. I checked and confirmed her maths was spot on, well done. I followed up by asking what she was doing. She informed me she was trying to split 100 between 7 days as she would like to cycle 100 miles in a week. My eyes lit up. Wow!!! So that’s how it started.

I found out that they had been talking at school about Captain Tom’s achievement and it had sparked some thought in my daughter about what she could do that is related to 100. She came up with the brilliant idea to bike 100-miles in a week (or at least over the Easter Holidays). At 9 years old that would be quite an achievement.

So, the planning began. As I'm at work, we thought the Easter weekend would be a great time to start as there is four free days to fill and as the clocks would be changed to summertime we could then do bike rides in the evening after work. We chatted about the order and decided it would be best to try and do the longer rides first over Easter and the shorter rides in the evening. We went for:

• Friday 2nd April - 15 miles
• Saturday 3rd April - 15 miles
• Sunday 4th April - 15 miles
• Monday 5th April - 14 miles
• Tuesday 6th April - 14 miles
• Wednesday 7th April - 14 miles
• Thursday 8th April - 13 miles

To be realistic I mentioned trying to do the miles in a week but at least over the Easter holidays whilst off school.

Then on the way into town the planning sheet came with us and we went through some local routes we could do to make up the 100-miles. We had loads of idea’s that are suitable for a family ride off road.

• Blackwell Trail (easy 6-mile there and back)
• Carsington Water (tough 7-mile loop)
• Route 6 (medium 10-mile there and back)
• Monsal trail (easy 13-17 mile there and back)
• 5 pits trail (tough 20-mile there and back)
• Sherwood Green route (easy 3-mile loop)
• Clumber Park (medium 10-mile loop)
• Thieves Wood (mixture of routes)
• Skegby/Teversal trail (easy 5-mile loop)
• Kingsmill reservoir (easy 1.25-mile loop)
• Rother valley (easy 3-mile loop)

For some of the shorter routes we would have to do them a couple of times to make 13-15 miles, but there is a great selection and that’s without travelling anymore than 30 minutes in the van to get there (Apart from Monsal trail which is about 40 minutes). We agreed to start with Monsal trail as the first day.

Unexpectedly when we announced we were doing the challenge my son also jumped at the chance to join in. What a result, a kids 100-mile Challenge. Bring it on...

Keep your eyes peeled to find out what happens on day one.