Olympic Challenge!!!

What am I doing???! As if the 10k, half and whole marathon thing isn't bad enough (oh yes, and the badminton) I go and get meself caught up in another stuffing challenge!
Let it be a cautionary tale to all gym-goers....when you are in said gym, and you pass any posters on the wall which have an area where you can 'sign-up here!'; either ignore it, or make sure no instructors are around when you look at it. Everybody knows that to an employee of a leisure centre gym; reading, looking interested in or even being within three metres of said poster.....well....that is tantamount (love that word) to screaming at the top of your voice
'I ABSOLUTELY, CATEGORICALLY AND EMPHATICALLY WANT TO SIGN UP FOR.. .....WHATEVER IT IS.....'
even if the poor unsuspecting individual doesn't know it yet.
A rather beefy looking instructor got his hooks into me and said he wouldn't let me leave until my name was up on the chart. This was at about 2pm so I decided to wait him out; at 3am I finally wilted; 'Oh, what the hell; stick me up there' was my response; immediately followed by having a proper look to find out what it was I was being stuck up there for!
So, I am now as we speak attempting the Haslingden Leisure Centre '2012 Olympic Silver Challenge' (that's one you haven't got Redgrave, have you now? eh? eh?....You know, if I succeed; in some strange universe (mine) that makes me a better athlete than you..........). From June 1st to August 12th the mission, should I choose to accept it (oh, hang on, I already have haven't I?.....crap....) is - through any or all of rower, cross-trainer, bike and treadmill - to travel a distance of 201.2km (2012, get it??!). It averages out at pretty much 20km per week, which is challenging (hence the name) but a good incentive to keep up the training towards the great north. If a decent fist is going of a half marathon come mid-September this is the sort of of gym target I need to be hitting. Ticking off progress on 'the chart' adds a new twist to the training experience too, not to mention the actual act of ticking being quite a cathartic (hey, pulling out all the good words now ain't I?....but I've just used the word ain't ain't I?....now I've used it twice!.....it was all going so well......) experience!
It's about three weeks into the challenge so far (quarter way through), and I'm at just over 40km (fifth of the way to target); not a problem, as the running distances are going to be increasing on a weekly basis. Should hopefully hit the 201.2 with a week or so to spare. Hope we get a medal, I'm getting to kind of enjoy wearing them!!!