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

[SWSteve]

Don't laugh, clipless is shoes that clip in right?

if so I do have clipless and I have loosened them right of, my left foot was feeling the same but is ok now, maybe it might need to be slightly adjusted as I haven't been fitted to my bike or really set up at all.

Yeah, it's when you bolt yourself to the bike like a madman. Okay, maybe try wearing them a little slacker and this may help, and move the cleats to the best position. There'll be tons of videos online

 

[A11an]

I'll do some research, thanks

 

[stevey]

Normal route home from work a new p.b suprised really was into a head wind and driving rain

http://app.strava.com/activities/64266379

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Word, I have to go to the dental hospital at some point in next couple of months (waiting to hear from them after I was referred by dentist) to have 3 teeth taken out because of wisdom teeth. Ace

Nasty - best of luck.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

No ride today due to filthy rotten weather that really socked in mid-pm thus ruining my planned ride and grass mowing session - the latter being occasioned by our gardener who has disappeared and left us in the lurch.

Had a play with MapMyRide tonight - the free route planning bit anyway and I have plotted my first '30' which I will do this coming Sunday.

I use maps a lot for climbing/hiking and usually plan my routes on a paper map - this is a nice little utility; I like the distance calculation and the elevation thingy is interesting.

 

[boybiker]

Word, I have to go to the dental hospital at some point in next couple of months (waiting to hear from them after I was referred by dentist) to have 3 teeth taken out because of wisdom teeth. Ace

Steve I had one out at the dentist and it was the most painful experience of my life! Get it done at the hospital and they will put you to sleep when they do it, you wont feel a thing.

 

[Nomadski]

No ride today due to filthy rotten weather that really socked in mid-pm thus ruining my planned ride and grass mowing session - the latter being occasioned by our gardener who has disappeared and left us in the lurch.

Had a play with MapMyRide tonight - the free route planning bit anyway and I have plotted my first '30' which I will do this coming Sunday.

I use maps a lot for climbing/hiking and usually plan my routes on a paper map - this is a nice little utility; I like the distance calculation and the elevation thingy is interesting.

Yeah MapMyRide is a decent site, it has some great ways of looking at your data, how it breaks each ride down to individual miles, it also reports far closer data to Garmin Connect than Strava does. Only issue I have with it is the price of Premium is high and they really push BUY PREMIUM! down your throat. If it wasn't for those two factors, I would have binned Strava by now.

Having said that, I use Ridewithgps to do my actual route planning ( http://ridewithgps.com/ ) and import it into my Garmin.

 

[Nomadski]

Steve I had one out at the dentist and it was the most painful experience of my life! Get it done at the hospital and they will put you to sleep when they do it, you wont feel a thing.

2 experiences of this is what gave me my fear of dentists, and hence why Im always years between being seen, and lots of work required when I do. Its a self fulfilling prophecy so wouldn't recommend to anyone (any kids reading this - GO TO THE DENTIST REGULARLY!!)

I had a dentist in Leicester who was so bad she had her knee on my chest trying to pull a tooth out at the back of my mouth, no joke. *shudder*

 

[shelliemac]

Wow...Peterhead ... Lived up the road in the Broch (Fraserburgh) till I was twenty. You are very lucky to have the roads and the relative lack of traffic in the north east of Scotland.

"Fit like en? "
Small world isnt it. Yeah i would think traffic up here is nothing compared to bigger busier places.

 

[procel]

Yeah MapMyRide is a decent site, it has some great ways of looking at your data, how it breaks each ride down to individual miles, it also reports far closer data to Garmin Connect than Strava does. Only issue I have with it is the price of Premium is high and they really push BUY PREMIUM! down your throat. If it wasn't for those two factors, I would have binned Strava by now.

Having said that, I use Ridewithgps to do my actual route planning ( http://ridewithgps.com/ ) and import it into my Garmin.

I use RunKeeper. Very similar to MapMyRide and they don't push their premium quite so much.

 

[Mo1959]

2 experiences of this is what gave me my fear of dentists, and hence why Im always years between being seen, and lots of work required when I do. Its a self fulfilling prophecy so wouldn't recommend to anyone (any kids reading this - GO TO THE DENTIST REGULARLY!!)

I had a dentist in Leicester who was so bad she had her knee on my chest trying to pull a tooth out at the back of my mouth, no joke. *shudder*

I put off going for years too. Eventually found an NHS one in Perth and forced myself to go. Needed three extractions and a filling. Was terrified but needn't have been. Dentist was great. Never felt a thing. Going to keep up with the six monthly check ups now.

 

[RWright]

Steve I had one out at the dentist and it was the most painful experience of my life!

very confidence inspiring

 

[SWSteve]

very confidence inspiring

Yeah, thanks @boybiker

 

[Nomadski]

I put off going for years too. Eventually found an NHS one in Perth and forced myself to go. Needed three extractions and a filling. Was terrified but needn't have been. Dentist was great. Never felt a thing. Going to keep up with the six monthly check ups now.

That's what I always think after Ive had a clean up lol.

I got a quote for the remaining work to be done...£585.

I would go NHS but all the ones near me are dodgy as and wouldn't let them anywhere near my mouth. Also, I got shown photos taken inside my mouth of prior NHS handiwork, Ill stump up the cash this time.

 

[SWSteve]

I don't know if any of you have watched Fresh Meat but in the second series there's a scene where the trainee dentist puts a drill through her patient's cheek, I will always think of that from now on