The Retirement Thread

[Juan Kog]

If I want. To fuel up for a long cold winter ride . Whisk egg in bowl first ,then add oats milk and water , and then nuke , no time for stove top method although I agree it's better. I came up with this idea after our club coach said you need a combo of carbs and protein, and suggested following porridge with egg on toast.
Well I'm not a morning person ,so short cut required. Some time later I told her what I was doing, the look she gave, told me she wasn't going to copy my idea.

 

[PaulSB]

No target here, I'm at about 4200 miles so far this year, I haven't got time to do much more mileage than that.

That's good mileage Dave, not many get to these sort of numbers.

 

[Dirk]

Morning all

Off to Ilfracombe this morning for a bit of shopping at LIDL.
Will take doggie with us and give her a walk around Bicclescombe park on the way back.
Had some pretty high tides over the past couple of days, along with high winds, so a lot of the coast is on flood alert.
It was pretty high at Westward Ho! on the other side of the bay the other night.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devon-town-battered-waves-dramatic-4703884

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Good morning all, bright but windy here.
I have nothing planned.

 

[Mo1959]

I see Boris is having to isolate again after coming into contact with someone who has tested positive.

 

[welsh dragon]

I see Boris is having to isolate again after coming into contact with someone who has tested positive.

The sooner we get this vaccine out the better I think, although it won't be most effective until next winter I understand. That's when we will see the real effect of it.

 

[screenman]

If you have breathing problems do not read Dry Hard by Nick Harding, it is so funny that I can only manage a few lines before putting it down due to laughing too much.

 

[welsh dragon]

By heck it's a bit raw here.. Not the best day to do my shopping.

 

[ColinJ]

Aargh... Having woken up early for gas guy on Saturday I am now falling asleep at about 04:30 and then waking up at about 07:45!

I felt half awake all the way through Saturday night and half asleep all day Sunday. Now I have woken after less than 4 hours and feel like it is time to go back to bed again...

I am having a mug of tea and I bet that I fall asleep if I try doing some programming but stay awake if I do nothing.

I half feel like keeping on doing this until I settle into a more normal sleep pattern but it always seems to be a problem.

I have been like this for half a century (!) so I doubt that I'll suddenly start going to bed at 23:00 and sleeping until 06:00.

I just about managed when I had to get up at 07:30 to go to work but even then I often didn't sleep until 01:00-02:00.

If I get 3 hours sleep, travel for an hour, do a 12 hour forum ride, travel back for an hour and buy a pizza, that sorts me out. Last time, I opened the pizza box at 23:00 and woke up on the sofa at 02:00 with the TV on, a stiff neck, and an uneaten first slice of pizza held in my hand in front of my mouth!

 

[Dave7]

That's good mileage Dave, not many get to these sort of numbers.

I WAS doing about 1500 a year which, added to 2 games of golf plus some walks was plenty for me.
This year is a virtual write off so my plan is to build up on the exercise bike over winter and start again early spring.
An ethical question for you..........
If I do go down the ebike route do those miles still count

 

[pawl]

We have Cesspool Sid around these parts. https://www.cesspoolsid.co.uk

we are the night shite shifters shifting shite by night Just a little ditty we used to sing as young lads

 

[dickyknees]

Bore da pawb.

Shopping day for us today. How fab.

Same here, just the weekly click and collect to do, then I think some time on the turbo as it’s a bit windy and cold here.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Blimey!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

 

[Tenkaykev]

A belated good morning fellow retirees,

Slept really well and didn't awaken until 8:00 I've had two coffees and I'm warming up the turbo trainer in preparation for riding part of this years La Vuelta. It seems as though the footage is captured immediately after the stage has been ridden as the roads have the graffiti and the vast majority of pedestrians captured on camera are wearing face masks.
I got the Turbo from Halfords at the start of Lockdown 1. A few weeks ago it started making the occasional screeching noise, usually when the resistance changed as I came to a (virtual) hill. Not wanting to go through the rigmarole of returning it, and knowing that they are once again as rare as hen's teeth ( my friend who broke his shoulder recently has been searching in vain ) I contacted the manufacturer ( Elite ). They are an Italian company and all their trainers are manufactured in Italy. The model that I have is one of their standard Smart trainers, rebadged for sale in Halfords. The response was excellent. They asked for a short video or sound recording of what was happening. After I sent it in they diagnosed that the threaded screw mechanism that drives the magnets closer to the Flywheel probably needed greasing, and sent instructions on how to go about it. A five minute job involving three screws and a bit of jiggery pokery and all is well.
Anyway, enough of my waffling, the turbo awaits!

Have a lovely peaceful day folks 👍