Getting back to fitness. It begins...

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Just getting over a bout of real flu, brought into work by a colleague who really really should know better. The whole team was badly affected whilst under winter pressures!!

Anyway hopefully back to riding on Monday.

 

[ColinJ]

Just getting over a bout of real flu, brought into work by a colleague who really really should know better. The whole team was badly affected whilst under winter pressures!!

Anyway hopefully back to riding on Monday.

I had a rant about that subject in another thread recently!

I'm still getting over a bad cold that I caught over Christmas and @Littgull has the same problem, but if we recover in time we are thinking of riding from Todmorden to Waddington a week tomorrow (17th). If you fancy joining us we could arrange to meet you near the Manchester Road traffic lights.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

This isn't going to plan thus far. Sorted work life balance, only to get ill, recovered, only to be hemmed in by the weather.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

20 minutes turbo fixed at high tempo then 15 minutes on the punch bag. fark I'm unfit, the punch bag got my mouth adrenaline pumping.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

15 miles in very windy n wet conditions on the Brompton. This isn't going to plan!!

 

[Gatters]

you cant plan the weather, it has plans of it's own but remember there are lots of others cycling in the winter too

 

[ColinJ]

15 miles in very windy n wet conditions on the Brompton. This isn't going to plan!!

15 miles round here in those conditions is nothing to be ashamed of - all I did today was walk round Tod park with my niece and her dog, then to the Indian takeaway and back this evening!

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Today was measured in time 1 hour 10 minutes. I've put a Schlumpf mountain drive on (thanks to a bargain from Mickle) and needed to check that the hand crank version would work as a leg powered one (half as many pinions). So I needed a hill, a steep one.....and about a mile from my house is a well kept secret to locals. There's a smooth tarnacced access road that is easily 20% and straight and about 1/2 mile long (guess work as its only on OS maps) and the access road to the access road is windy and probably another 1 1/3 mile at 13%. Anyway it took 5 rests to get to the top due to the full head on wind, but I didn't walk!!! But I think I might do hill reps once a week as its a good safe work out and better than the turbo and I'm never more than 1 1/2 mile from home if I go through the fields. The Schlumpf seems to have held up ok.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Here's the proof!!! That's Crown Point in the distance, that's how high it gets in half mile.

 

[dan_bo]

You on a brommie still makes me chuckle.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Goodness me, this isn't going well at all. No riding since ^

 

[ColinJ]

Goodness me, this isn't going well at all. No riding since ^

I feel your pain - I am about 840 miles off my 2016 pace already!

Don't forget, if you are free for a ride on a dry day, starting after 10:00 and finishing before 16:00, let me know and I'll try to join you.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

I feel your pain - I am about 840 miles off my 2016 pace already!

Don't forget, if you are free for a ride on a dry day, starting after 10:00 and finishing before 16:00, let me know and I'll try to join you.

Thanks Colin, ironically since improving my work/life balance, I've bought a clinic and it needs gutting and remodelling. So I'm back to 7 days a week atm. I hope it'll be worth it, the plan being to only work 3 or 4 days a week 4 miles from home and cycle the rest.

 

[ColinJ]

Thanks Colin, ironically since improving my work/life balance, I've bought a clinic and it needs gutting and remodelling. So I'm back to 7 days a week atm. I hope it'll be worth it, the plan being to only work 3 or 4 days a week 4 miles from home and cycle the rest.

Well that certainly excuses your lack of cycling!

Good luck with the new venture.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Well, a massive leap of faith taken for the sake of my health and emotional wellbeing. The biggest promotion and pay rise of my current career binned. Like my wife says, just gotta have faith in my skills.

So as from tomorrow I'm down to 1 day contract, 1 day ad hoc and the rest in the clinic getting it up and running.

Which means I'll be able to fit in some riding, honest guv!