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Post by Humph on Jul 4, 2016 19:47:58 GMT
Whether you have a bike, want a bike, once had a bike, or just know someone who has a bike, all welcome. (Even the ones who insist on skinny tyres and Lycra) 😛
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2016 23:44:11 GMT
I went for a 20 mile ride in early March on a friend's bike. Skinny tyres, no give in the frame. Killed my shoulder. Haven't ridden since. Just had an MRI scan, nothing damaged too much. Keep taking the NSAIDs and get back in the pool. Wish I could get back on the bike, my nice hybrid with soft ride and comfortable saddle.
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Post by Humph on Jul 10, 2016 8:11:15 GMT
You'll get back into it. I can suggest some pleasant but not ( initially ) too challenging rides near you where you could get off road, away from traffic but still not be anywhere where you're going to aggravate an injury. Delamere forest would be a good start. Nice fire Trail routes without any serious climbing. Get there early though if it's a weekend. Too many walkers by late morning to enjoy it safely.
We are just about to tackle Llandegla again this morning. It'll rain which always makes it er, um, well, more interesting...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 16:30:44 GMT
Still enjoying my new bike.
I sadly found that one of the bad bits about being old is how quickly one loses fitness. After my enforced spell in hospital the other month, I wasn't able to do much for a while. A week of bicycle and snowboard has crippled me.
I mean seriously crippled. There was an earthquake this morning, not that bad in the scheme of things. But I just lay there and assumed everything was ok. It hurt too much to go and check.
I also discovered that if one gets cocky with them stoppy turny things then one faceplants.
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Post by WDB on Jul 11, 2016 21:43:29 GMT
Yes, the fitness thing is a bugger. I broke a finger against a cricket ball two weekends ago and haven't been able to play or even train properly since, and I can feel the fitness I'd built up through May and June ebbing away. Then we're off on holiday, so I may end up missing six consecutive weekends - although cycling in France should make up for some. Arse!
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Post by Hofmeister on Jul 12, 2016 17:43:20 GMT
Biggest thing to keeping fit in later life is getting the weight down. I've lost 10kilos, and now able to do some running with the dog. At 62 years old, I'm probably fitter now than I have been for about 15 years, and the hip that was starting to give me some gyp is easing up a bit. The missus does some fitness things nearly every day, Pilates, Body Balance, Aquarobics, is three years younger than me, and I can run her into the ground, and walk her off the fells. Having a young busy Über active dog is a real boon.....
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Post by Humph on Jul 17, 2016 8:47:41 GMT
Amazing how quickly you lose fitness as the years advance. I normally swim most nights, a regular 1000 metre chug and I'm on my mountain bike most Sundays. But this week with traveling and a fairly intense work schedule I've done nothing but sit in aeroplanes or other forms of transport or just work or eat or sleep.
Even that week off from doing any excercise has taken its toll and I'll need to work back up to my my usual routine.
Age is a bugger really.
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Post by WDB on Jul 18, 2016 15:02:49 GMT
Yep. I played a match yesterday - probably a week sooner, in digital terms, than I should have, but the only way to get one in before going away. Pleasantly surprised that running between wickets (on the warmest day of the season so far) didn't feel too strenuous, but fielding later on was hard work - and everything aches today.
Over to the bike to keep me fit for the next few weeks.
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Post by Humph on Aug 14, 2016 13:58:37 GMT
We've just done what is normally a not too challenging forest trail. Just 14 miles or so without too many climbs and only a short section of rufty tufty descent. Now, I'd not been on my bike for 8 days but prior to that had been on it every day for two weeks. Eight days doesn't sound like a lot to lose muscle memory but the first 20 minutes or so today were hard. Really hard. Must be an age thing. Was ok after that once I was into it but boy the first couple of climbs ( like I said not normally very challenging ones ) hurt like hell.
Maybe I should take up bowls.
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Post by WDB on Aug 14, 2016 18:17:57 GMT
And I played my first league cricket match since injuring my finger. We won, I made our top score (and was credited in the match report with a catch taken by the man next to me) and we're now well set to claim the second promotion place behind the uncatchable leaders. But it was bloody hard work, despite my efforts in France, and today everything aches. Everything.
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Post by Humph on Aug 14, 2016 18:26:21 GMT
From playing cricket? Blimey. Don't you just stand around a lot and very occasionally hit a ball and run about 20 yards. Stop for tea. Stand about a bit. Throw a ball a few times. Stand about a bit etc...
Doesn't seem all that tiring to me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2016 18:34:01 GMT
I used to play in Cambridge. Nobody ever objected to holding on a bit while a couple of the fielders went and got another pint. just so's they bought the umpire one back as well.
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Post by Humph on Aug 14, 2016 18:41:14 GMT
Well, I might be missing something of course but a game involving standing around for hours with nothing much happening in a big thick jumper and long trousers would tend to suggest to me that it's not entirely physically demanding. Fair play, having a nasty hard ball thrown at you might keep you a bit light on your feet at the time, but as far as I can see that only happens a few times before more tea gets served.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2016 18:42:29 GMT
No, I think you've got it covered.
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Post by WDB on Aug 15, 2016 6:51:19 GMT
The tea is a fact, of course, and a good one - although it only appears once in our games. But just as not all bicycles convey old maids to evensong, so cricket can be played to varying levels of intensity. Division 4 of our little league is still a long way down the scale, but even so...
These days I open the batting (which would surprise many that I played with as a bowler and resident no 11 20 years ago) and on Saturday I was the third batsman out. In that time we added 122 runs, and my tracker wristband reckons I travelled something between 3 and 4km. (This surprised me; even if we'd run every run, that would account for only about 2km.) It was a big ground, with thickish grass in the outfield, so there were a fair number of hits that didn't reach the boundary and required us to run two or three - not usually a problem but I felt it this time, especially with my much younger third-wicket partner.
After the break, the band tells me I covered another 5km in the field - without bowling, which I'm not often asked to do these days. So yes, we had a good tea, but I reckon we earned it.
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