ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It's okay folks - I'm alive! 
Thanks for organising the ride fossy - I enjoyed myself apart from that first half deluge and my right leg packing up late in the second half (the second forum ride on the trot
)! It was nice meeting you and the other unfamiliar faces. Very special thanks to DiddlyDodds for giving me a lift there and back, providing tomato soup, Jaffa cakes and mini-doughnuts on the drive home, and for being good company. I hope you manage to get a chance to join us on future forum rides DD, though weekend time away from your family is limited - I'll try and give you a month's notice of a summer forum ride.
Not much can be done about the rain, other than arranging forum rides on Tenerife?
As for my leg problem - I'm pretty sure that it is due to a combination of hip arthritis and a circulation problem due to a varicose vein and both of those would be helped by losing a lot of weight. The strain I'm putting on myself by lugging 3 or 4 stone of extra weight about isn't helping one little bit.
The disappointing thing is - I was actually feeling better and better as the ride went on until the pain struck. I am definitely getting fitter and starting to get that 'frisky' feeling on the bike again, for example when I see a little rise in the road and get the urge to power my way up it as quickly as I can. I was riding along talking to dr_pink and spotted one of those and oomph - I shot up it. Did it again a couple of times and then suddenly felt a tell-tale twinge in the top of my right leg and soon after that, the stabbing pains started. It really feels like someone has just stuck a knife in. It's bad enough on quiet roads, but I was getting pretty scared on busy roads in Wilmslow because I was becoming a risk to myself and other road users. Every time we had to stop and start at lights, my leg went. One time, I couldn't get going and veered across from the right lane to the left. I was lucky not to get hit by someone.
Just like last weekend, once I got home I was struggling for a few hours with my painful leg in the evening, but it is okay today. My muscles feel great, which is pleasing considering I did 72 miles yesterday, 6 of which were admittedly 'cheat' miles downhill from Blackstone Edge to Mytholmroyd after I got DD to drop me off at the top.
I'll have to make a more serious attempt to lose weight. I am about 4 kg down on my peak, but still about 20 above where I'd like to be. In the meantime, I'll have to be careful not to push my leg too hard, will spin lower gears where possible, avoid violent efforts, and will probably carry some Ibuprofen for emergency use.
Let's see how I get on on Ajay's ride next Saturday. (Come and join us - it should be great!)
Thanks for organising the ride fossy - I enjoyed myself apart from that first half deluge and my right leg packing up late in the second half (the second forum ride on the trot
)! It was nice meeting you and the other unfamiliar faces. Very special thanks to DiddlyDodds for giving me a lift there and back, providing tomato soup, Jaffa cakes and mini-doughnuts on the drive home, and for being good company. I hope you manage to get a chance to join us on future forum rides DD, though weekend time away from your family is limited - I'll try and give you a month's notice of a summer forum ride.Not much can be done about the rain, other than arranging forum rides on Tenerife?
As for my leg problem - I'm pretty sure that it is due to a combination of hip arthritis and a circulation problem due to a varicose vein and both of those would be helped by losing a lot of weight. The strain I'm putting on myself by lugging 3 or 4 stone of extra weight about isn't helping one little bit.
The disappointing thing is - I was actually feeling better and better as the ride went on until the pain struck. I am definitely getting fitter and starting to get that 'frisky' feeling on the bike again, for example when I see a little rise in the road and get the urge to power my way up it as quickly as I can. I was riding along talking to dr_pink and spotted one of those and oomph - I shot up it. Did it again a couple of times and then suddenly felt a tell-tale twinge in the top of my right leg and soon after that, the stabbing pains started. It really feels like someone has just stuck a knife in. It's bad enough on quiet roads, but I was getting pretty scared on busy roads in Wilmslow because I was becoming a risk to myself and other road users. Every time we had to stop and start at lights, my leg went. One time, I couldn't get going and veered across from the right lane to the left. I was lucky not to get hit by someone.
Just like last weekend, once I got home I was struggling for a few hours with my painful leg in the evening, but it is okay today. My muscles feel great, which is pleasing considering I did 72 miles yesterday, 6 of which were admittedly 'cheat' miles downhill from Blackstone Edge to Mytholmroyd after I got DD to drop me off at the top.
I'll have to make a more serious attempt to lose weight. I am about 4 kg down on my peak, but still about 20 above where I'd like to be. In the meantime, I'll have to be careful not to push my leg too hard, will spin lower gears where possible, avoid violent efforts, and will probably carry some Ibuprofen for emergency use.
Let's see how I get on on Ajay's ride next Saturday. (Come and join us - it should be great!)
