classic33
Leg End Member
Didn't start raining here 'til 04:24 here, stopped by 05:40. Dry now.
Turn the alarm off.
The Retirement Thread
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Turn the alarm off.
12boy
Guru
- Location
- Casper WY USA
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Just had a video call with one of my brothers who informed me that our eldest brother and his wife both have Covid. He is the one who won't have the jab as he doesn't trust it. I don't know how bad he has it but he just can't taste anything. Too late for them now to be vaccinated and his age won't help ( 77). He must have caught it in a supermarket as they are the most likely places to catch it. They live in the country side and don't see anybody else otherwise.
classic33
Leg End Member
Hope it's not too bad for both of them.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Yep, the correct decision.
What is it about cycling and fitness, form etc? I left the group about 7 miles from the end of the ride to head home - finish point was in the opposite direction.
There's a 3.6 mile segment on the way home. Gentle gradient averaging 1.5% but with a couple of nasty sharp bits. I felt good and decided to have a dig at it. Upped my pace, bugger headwind but let's keep going. Battered myself for 3.25 miles, battered even harder to get up the last kick at 13mph - normally grovel on this section - instead of 9/10.
My HR was Zone 5 for 14 minutes today, 13 of them on this segment.
Magic! That's got to be a PB! NOPE. 30 seconds off. I can't imagine what I did last August when I set my PB. Weird.
It's much the same with running. Sometimes I'd be on a training run and feel really strong so I'd push it along only to find that I was well of my routine pace. On other occasions I'd force myself out the door and feel that I was lolloping around like a carthorse, only to find I'd smashed my usual time. Strange indeed...
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You had a tail wind in August, or you were fitter then.
classic33
Leg End Member
My money is on the tail wind theory.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
The usual walks looked absolutely mobbed with families and groups heading round so I managed to make up a little 4 miles loop
and avoid them.
I never bothered nipping in for a quick one though.
and avoid them.
I never bothered nipping in for a quick one though.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
That's the wrong answer 🤣🤣
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
I'm afraid it's probably the fitness bit which is a bit of a shame.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I third that!
I once took 2 minutes off my best time for the lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng Cragg Vale climb. (It is usually fairly wind-free in the first half but the second half is open moorland and there is a prevailing cross headwind from the right which often makes it a slog.) I thought I was flying on what felt like a wind-free day but at the summit waves going away from me on the reservoir made it obvious that I'd had a rare strong tailwind that just happened to be at the speed I'd climbed. When I stopped for a drink the wind was very noticeable.
classic33
Leg End Member
Just think of your time, inside 20 minutes, if you'd pedalled as well.
Flick of the Elbow
Guru
- Location
- Pentlands & West Lothian
A pleasing afternoon in front of the telly watching the National Championships from Spain then France, very different but equally entertaining.
And also I’ve booked three more stays in our favourite Nethy holiday cottage for next year
And also I’ve booked three more stays in our favourite Nethy holiday cottage for next year
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Ha ha!
That reminds me - I need to get back to my 20 minute Cragg Vale climbing challenge before I get too old for it. I think that tailwind-assisted climb was around 23 minutes but it started at the CV sign here...
... rather than the official hill climb start which I use now - here...
That is 300 metres further along, so about 3/4 minute could be subtracted from my time. My tailwind-assisted time on the TT course was about 22 m 15 sec.
I have some powercranks to put on my CAADX once its fork has been replaced. (I'm waiting until the Blackburn Covid Delta numbers are much lower before taking my bike over to the bike shop.) Unfortunately, my best bike has the wrong type of BB, otherwise they would have gone on that bike. I'll start doing the CV climb on the CAADX every week or two, and try to get my power output up.
