Show us your.......newbie progress!

[Stonechat]

No mudguards
Bike should really have been cleaned but hasn't
Wore Gilet today was totally spattered down the back
Didn't bother with overshoes today- mistake would've kept shoes cleaner

 

[Justinslow]

I must admit just felt guilty so popped out and gt85'd the chain and gearing! Surprising how quickly the bike had dried out since I put it away.

 

[Mo1959]

I think nearly every Sunday when I come back from visiting the folks I come in to one of these Strava emails losing yet another QOM Well, it was actually 3 this time on a climb up to one of the local reservoirs. I maybe won't bother attempting to get it back as a) I have a history of hitting sheep on these type of roads and b) she was riding with 4 men and is ten years younger than me so she can keep them. Lol

 

[Big_Dave]

I think nearly every Sunday when I come back from visiting the folks I come in to one of these Strava emails losing yet another QOM Well, it was actually 3 this time on a climb up to one of the local reservoirs. I maybe won't bother attempting to get it back as a) I have a history of hitting sheep on these type of roads and b) she was riding with 4 men and is ten years younger than me so she can keep them. Lol

lol, I'd be happy to get into the top 1000 on some of our local climbs

 

[Stonechat]

lol, I'd be happy to get into the top 1000 on some of our local climbs

YEs know what you mean, if I put in a real effort on some climbs, I find I am just below half way up the leaderboard. And flat segments the leader has a speed of 30 mph

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I think nearly every Sunday when I come back from visiting the folks I come in to one of these Strava emails losing yet another QOM Well, it was actually 3 this time on a climb up to one of the local reservoirs. I maybe won't bother attempting to get it back as a) I have a history of hitting sheep on these type of roads and b) she was riding with 4 men and is ten years younger than me so she can keep them. Lol

If you are hiring sheep going up hill, why don't you hold all the local QOMs? Surely it is just the downhill ones you have lost your confidence with? I have been quite fortunate so far. I have only had the 1 and that was one of the ones I set on tour in September! Guess that will change over Christmas though!


Oh and can someone please tell me where November went to? I seem to have lost it

 

[Mo1959]

Oh and can someone please tell me where November went to? I seem to have lost it

Wait till you get older.......it gets worse. I thought when I stopped working the time might start to drag but it's been the opposite. The time is absolutely flying by. Maybe I should get a little job to slow it down again but, poor as I am, I am still enjoying not working so much. I don't understand these people that say they would get bored and not know how to pass the time. Suppose enjoying walking, jogging, and cycling and generally being outdoors helps. Certainly couldn't cope with being stuck indoors for any length of time so you have my sympathies there..........but hopefully it will all be improving for you soon once they get your back sorted

If it's a success, I could be tempted to push for something myself as the constant niggling backache and numbness gets pretty annoying but it is bearable at the moment.

 

[Mo1959]

This daylight is taking ages to appear this morning and it's only 3 degrees too but I think I will just have a short cycle before I walk the pooch. Tomorrow may be frosty so might have to be a jog.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Wait till you get older.......it gets worse. I thought when I stopped working the time might start to drag but it's been the opposite. The time is absolutely flying by. Maybe I should get a little job to slow it down again but, poor as I am, I am still enjoying not working so much. I don't understand these people that say they would get bored and not know how to pass the time. Suppose enjoying walking, jogging, and cycling and generally being outdoors helps. Certainly couldn't cope with being stuck indoors for any length of time so you have my sympathies there..........but hopefully it will all be improving for you soon once they get your back sorted

If it's a success, I could be tempted to push for something myself as the constant niggling backache and numbness gets pretty annoying but it is bearable at the moment.

I haven't worked since February 2011 and some returning to the UK one recovered from my dog bite, I too have never been busier until this month, sorry last month, where did November go to? I've lost it....

I know what you mean about not having a quiet time.

I will be ensuring that i do all the physio and we will pay for more if it is needed and not forthcoming in the NHS especially as the mri shows a degenerative condition is didn't know about. It will want to be protecting my back as much as possible and to make sure i do what is needed to prevent this from happening again. It is not nice! I had not really appreciated the risk of ending up doubly incontinent either! Definitely one to avoid. I may well have to give up mtbing on trails and just stock to bridleways etc, who knows. That is making a large assumption right now that I'm not certain I am prepared to make. I have to be realistic about the chances of a full recovery.

 

[Big_Dave]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn It's not nice having a life changing illness, although it does make you appreciate how valuable time is, you learn to take each day as it comes and live for the now, Hope all goes well for you

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@Justinslow do you not find that an amazing shirt for the price, or maybe its just warmer as said before.

@SpokeyDokey I am fine thanks, few battle scars of the right shifter lever.

 

[puffinbilly]

I haven't being around on here for ages - have browsed but not posted - working ridiculously long hours all the time at present on a project. Wondered what had happened to @SatNavSaysStraightOn then saw her post on health section. I hope what I post may help you just a little - my experience and health issues are minor in comparison to yours.
I had chronic sciatica a couple of years back and went through five months of hell - really thinking that I would not get much better and just to accept that I would be crippled with pain forever - however after intense physio and just avoiding the need for surgery I did improve slightly and it probably took a complete year to feel pain free and movement free - but it did happen. I am incredibly diligent about stretching and doing the exercises that the physio provided and have managed to get back on a bike.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn & @Mo1959 time is relative, when your one a year is your whole life, when your two its half, so goes twice as quick, ect........ it is only a perceptual things though. I haven't worked since 2007, and survived on benefits since then (now you know why I ride a Viking). Not sure what I could do or how I would cope in a work place situation.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I haven't being around on here for ages - have browsed but not posted - working ridiculously long hours all the time at present on a project. Wondered what had happened to @SatNavSaysStraightOn then saw her post on health section. I hope what I post may help you just a little - my experience and health issues are minor in comparisons to yours.
I had chronic sciatica a couple of years back and went through five months of hell - really thinking that I would not get much better and just to accept that I would be crippled with pain forever - however after intense physio and just avoiding the need for surgery I did improve slightly and it probably took a complete year to feel pain free and movement free - but it did happen. I am incredibly diligent about stretching and doing the exercises that the physio provided and have managed to get back on a bike.

I will be glad just to be able to sit up in a chair tbh! A month of lying down or very short periods of standing up is getting to me! Sadly it seems there is nothing I could have done to prevent this from happening. As far as I can recall it happened when I put the phone down and turned to walk to the bathroom. I hadn't been on my bike for 3 days and wasn't carrying anything at all. The consultant said something about degeneration which I will talk to her about before I am discharged to establish want she meant and see if it needs an NHS referral for long term montering. I don't think it is connected to the steroids I am on, but will ask.

 

[Justinslow]

@Justinslow do you not find that an amazing shirt for the price, or maybe its just warmer as said before.

@SpokeyDokey I am fine thanks, few battle scars of the right shifter lever.

Yep, can't fault the winter jersey or the leggings (the only bits I bought) comfy good fit and cheap!