Show us your.......newbie progress! [4 Sep 2012 - 4 Oct 2014]

[Mo1959]

That's with spare tunes and a saddle bag.

Lol.......music while you cycle?

 

[welsh dragon]

Lol.......music while you cycle?

Looney tunes maybe?

 

[Mo1959]

Re all the bike weights, I've no idea what any of mine weigh, until I am a skinny bugger it doesn't really matter

You surely must be by now?? Surprised you are not away to a shadow with these miles. I know that's when I get rid of my winter excess once my miles creep up again.

 

[young Ed]

Mine is 9.5kg if we're comparing.

what bike? carbon?
Cheers Ed

 

[Harv]

what bike? carbon?
Cheers Ed

No. It's a Trek 1.1 nothing fancy.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

what bike? carbon?
Cheers Ed

Probably not, planet-x do a alu/carbon forks at 8.8 nominal weight with a Tiagra group set the Triban 5 comes in at under 10Kgs with a sora triple 9sp

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

thanks all for the best wishes.
back from hospital this afternoon having stayed overnight for something that was down as a day op
so ended up in overnight and the ward I was on won't release any patient until blood tests come back OK, so had to wait until those came back before being discharged. And off course we had not really planned for me being in overnight, so didn't have any food with me that I could eat and hospitals really struggle to cater for someone with a dairy allergy... sooo glad to be home
Currently the side of the epidural (I can't have general anaesthetics if they can be avoided) is more sore than the site of the op!
Hoping to be back on the bike by the weekend if not a touch sooner but short rides only.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn hospitals cant cope with changes to people in beds and diet, last time i was in bloods were supposed to be taken and i was held in (against my will I must add, they do that to me a lot sometimes, longest was a month) until bloods which were not taken came back, and still had no proper food.

Glad to hear your on the mend

Edit
Short rides do you know what they are, or are you like me "you cant ride for up to three months, which was 2 months ago) , since then I have done 1693 miles, no wonder my bike is worn out.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn hospitals cant cope with changes to people in beds and diet, last time i was in bloods were supposed to be taken and i was held in (against my will I must add, they do that to me a lot sometimes, longest was a month) until bloods which were not taken came back, and still had no proper food.

Glad to hear your on the mend

Well I have to give them credit for trying hard to find something I could eat, but it was clear to me that none of them had a clue how far dairy gets into the UK diet, because 'green pea soup' was given to me for lunch with 2 rounds of bread. I couldn't check the ingredients of the soup (and not just for the obvious dairy like milk of cream or butter being involved, dairy products can also turn up in stock powder/cubes as well) and when they did find the ingredients list for the wholemeal bread, they were shocked to find skimmed milk powder in it. I wasn't!

Also had to ensure that I only had my medication (not the same drug but provided by the hospital) because dairy is often used as a tablet filler in tablets & capsules (something that surprised one or two of the nursing staff!) and I am found that certain brands are better than others and I am more tolerant of some manufacturers drugs (such as having the UK brand of Singulair (an asthma medication)) than some of the generic montelukast (same drug but manufactured elsewhere - one of them from Italy left me in anaphylactic shock with the pharmacist wanting to ring for an ambulance for me - I had gone in with the tablets to see if anyone else was having issues with them!).

They also don't manage people needing their meds at a certain time of day rather than as and when the trolley is brought around! So I have had to go up to them at set intervals and request they 'give' me my meds (my asthma as you know is very brittle) because missing a dose of meds by 1.5hrs is not an option - nor is it for my steroids.

Sadly I can see when I have to have a general anaesthetic later in the year for a throat op I need, life will be interesting, but I will be expecting to be staying in with that one, so should be better prepared...

 

[Supersuperleeds]

You surely must be by now?? Surprised you are not away to a shadow with these miles. I know that's when I get rid of my winter excess once my miles creep up again.

I'm hovering just under 14 stone, so for a cyclist still a porker. I like to think some of it is muscle now, I've gone down from a 38 waist to a 32 but would like to get to 13 stone, being 6ft 2" I don't think I should go lower

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn I think that people don't understand fully how far cross contamination is, I don't from your perspective, but I do from other things. I once went into anaphylactic shock whilst being detained under the mental health act, the drug they normally use to counter a paracetamol overdose is parvolex, back in the 90's I had this a few times with no ill effects, however when I was detained (in 96) they put the first 500ml through at such a high rate I went into shock, I suspect it was the rate they put it into my body as to why I reacted, but because I did, I have to declare it, which means I have to declare it every time I am in hospital, and like you many don't know what the drug is for.

People say take up cycling for physical health and this is true, but its effects on your mental health I think from my point of view are far more beneficial, I dont think bad thoughts when I ride (apart from the odd, 40%, of other road users), there is a large % of the day, I don't want to be here, if cycling can defeat that for a few hours its beneficial to all.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I'm hovering just under 14 stone, so for a cyclist still a porker. I like to think some of it is muscle now, I've gone down from a 38 waist to a 32 but would like to get to 13 stone, being 6ft 2" I don't think I should go lower

Clydesdale springs to mind, even I am not a 32 waist and only 6ft and 12st 3oz

 

[moo]

Don't be too quick to lose that weight. I miss having a cushioned rear end :-)

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Don't be too quick to lose that weight. I miss having a cushioned rear end :-)

Better for rear end shunts

 

[AndyPeace]

Was working late tonight. So missed the club tt, but did get out just as they were going home. just as I reached the end of my ride, a rainbow appeared. Just over 19mph avg for 10 miles, not bad considering I'm at the doctors on Thursday as I'm having a few problems with my chest.