The Retirement Thread

[PaulSB]

Hello again. It is a glorious sunny day in Lancashire. I slept some more till 8.30!

Hello @monkers - good to see you, don't disappear again and keep those pedals turning

Speaking of which I need to get a shift on for a 10.00 departure 🌞

 

[Exlaser2]

Morning all . The rain has stopped and it’s now a lovely sunny autumn day . Just going out for my weekly 4 milk stroll to the butcher. I have been given my orders from mrs exlaser , 1 chicken , 14 sausages and half dozen eggs. She seems to have forgotten about scotch eggs lol . Oh well I can soon put that right.
I am still not feeling right but am feeling better . More blood tests in a couple of weeks then back to see the doctor. But at least I feel like walking places again . Have a good day everyone. 😀😀

 

[Tenkaykev]

@welsh dragon



Ah so it was your turbulence blowing me into the weeds last time that busted my shoulder. I'll be checking your ride data to make sure I avoid you in future

This happened to a good friend of mine a few weeks ago. We were only out on a 5K run
He's mending well, just lost a bit of confidence. Once I knew he was ok I offered him a fiver for his (newish) running shoes as he wouldn't be needing them for a while...

 

[classic33]

I have risen!

Did not sleep well. Must have 20 electrodes glued to different parts of my body and its chuffing uncomfortable.

15 or 23 on the head, electroencephalograph, and 8 or 10 elsewhere, electrocardiograph.

Wait whilst the glue used starts drying out.

 

[monkers]

This happened to a good friend of mine a few weeks ago. We were only out on a 5K run
He's mending well, just lost a bit of confidence. Once I knew he was ok I offered him a fiver for his (newish) running shoes as he wouldn't be needing them for a while...

OUCH. Fortunately for me, I didn't do quite that amount of damage. I broke 3 ribs, but they tend to sort themselves out. My shoulder injury was a category 3 acromioclavicular sprain - ligaments detaching from bone allowing the joint to separate. I'm a bit of a lightweight when it comes to pain - but I can tell you it hurt!

 

[dickyknees]

You're in Wales , that not news .

Nice and bright in Trearddur Bay. Shots from https://weather.trearddurbay.org/webcam/

 

[classic33]

8.40 and I have showered and have put a fruit cake cooking for when my grandson comes to see us later today

You trying to tell him something?

 

[screenman]

The BBC reported yesterday a spike is occurring which has been attributed to people meeting up for a last time before the current lockdown.

Which I feel is what happened with the 6 people I know.

 

[pawl]

The BBC reported yesterday a spike is occurring which has been attributed to people meeting up for a last time before the current lockdown.

No surprise there then.

 

[pawl]

Thanks Kev for the kind words. It's good to be back. I genuinely don't have much to be modest about. I'd certainly say that I've been an accomplished cyclist in the past. I was was pretty successful as a 10 miler, and did hold the club record for the distance in my age group for some time. I did actually win one national competition once too as a teenager - but so many years have passed since then. With hindsight, how I wish I'd kept up cycling, and the piano too for that matter. I was taught a good deal by the club trainer and other club members - club cycling should not be under-rated in my view, especially for younger riders.

My expectations are not for high achievement but a desire to be able to take part again without embarrassing the club with poor results. I don't yet have the puff back to set a competitive time at ten miles, I have more in the legs than in the lungs, as it were. Based on ride data, I'd be somewhere between 30 and 35 minutes. I'm tending to compare my ride times with my young self more than with other riders. Oh to be 13 again and know what I know now!

Good to see you back.

Just don’t try to play the piano whilst cycling

 

[Dave7]

Nice and bright in Trearddur Bay. Shots from https://weather.trearddurbay.org/webcam/
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When we started to go there with the van the Treaddur Bay hotel offered 2 for 1 early bird meals. We would get to the van, chuck the stuff in and get to to pub.
Then they stopped that and wacked the prices up.
Needless to say we stopped going

 

[Tenkaykev]

8.40 and I have showered and have put a fruit cake cooking for when my grandson comes to see us later today

OK, as nobody else has responded I suppose it's down to me to ask for clarification. Did you mean that Mr Welshie is doing the cooking for when the grandson arrives, or that you will be baking a cake...

 

[Dirk]

I'm sitting here on the laptop with a few tabs open and flicking between them - a bit randomly it has to be said.

The intransigent Trump, government here squabbling and taking lumps out of each other, rising Covid cases and deaths here in the UK and in the USA, Peter Sutcliffe killed by Covid, and the under-reported case of 430 trans people murdered in the past year for no crime other than living authentic lives. (Gives own head a wobble, who should be more newsworthy, Peter Sutcliffe or 430 murdered innocent folk?)

I think I need to stop reading and get out on the bike.

Yeah.......but did you see the article about the sheep on a trampoline? Feckin hilarious!

 

[welsh dragon]

OK, as nobody else has responded I suppose it's down to me to ask for clarification. Did you mean that Mr Welshie is doing the cooking for when the grandson arrives, or that you will be baking a cake...

I made a cake. Mr Welshie was still in bed

 

[gavroche]

Nice and bright in Trearddur Bay. Shots from https://weather.trearddurbay.org/webcam/
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I believe " I'm a celebrity..." have been filming all week on Anglesey , the introduction for Sunday's start.