standard routes

I hit upon this idea last summer as a way of monitoring progress.  Have a set of "standard" routes and simply time how long it take for you to get around - not in race mode but in steady pace.

I've got 4 routes all heading out of Shrewsbury:

Route	Distance	Winter Time (Dec 2012)
A -Condover, Betton Abbas	16.9km	53min 22sec
B - Hook-a-Gate, Condover, Betton Abbas	23.9km	1hr 3min 25sec
C - Montford Bridge, Fitz, Leaton	24.2km	1hr 6min 38sec
D - Hook-a-Gate, Longnor, Acton Burnel	35.8km	1hr 36min 39sec

These are all pretty flat, totally familiar routes that I have done loads of times. And all just right for base training - where I want to be simply putting in the miles, building the capacity for later, more intense training - in the spring...