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Ouch, rain and a dive over the handlebars, hope it eases quickly. Nice to see that you're getting a nice steady HR, with slightly faster speeds, without the Lactic acid build up. That stuff really puts the Kybosh on aerobic long distance stuff. It probably also shows your system filling out again, too. Years ago I was on a PE Teacher's course, where one of the tutors was a previous British Olympic 200mtr medallist - impressive woman. We were on the Physiology stuff and she told us of her first competition, in the British team. Being new, she asked another, more experienced Team member, what tactical technique she used. The reply was, "I just go balls-out all the way." Naturally enough she thought she would give it a go. Bang, went the gun and away she went; "Balls-out..." By the middle of the first bend she glimpsed over her shoulder, to see she was a good 2/3Mtrs ahead of all the rest and by the beginning of the straight, nearly 5Mtrs ahead. She said, it felt really great, until halfway down the straight when "I ran into a solid brick wall - Lactic - and every other competitor ran past me, before I got to the Finishing Line!". I didn't do that again, lesson learned, the hard way!"

Interesting, more consistent steady HR, too. I hate a headwind, it has an effect similar to the square of the speed increase. {something like, twice the wind speed ~~ four times the drag, that's nowhere near precise, there are more factors involved but gives the idea. 😊 }

Indeed so, 6s. 8d is very much to the point and one of the things that riles her. It's pre-decimal and works, but her, fantastic, SI system simply can't do it. It's the lack of a way to do it that's her real problem and difficult to process / simply accept. ..... and still pack boxes in factors / multiples of dozens... 🫢🤐

Absolutely agree with all that.

You've had you're fitness level until only a few months back, so it might feel difficult now, but it shouldn't take very long to wake it up again. The muscles, blood vessels, lung size are still there, so more a matter of re-filling them again, rather than trying to develop them, as you were working at before. Slowly, slowly, catchee Monkey..... which will void straining something and having to take time for recovery. It will be back before you know it and in the meantime your metabolic rate will increase, which will use more energy. How's the RHTT going?

Loved the comment about Lactic and Crisps... 😂 Interesting to relate the HR and Speed, in that first mile. Looking at the curves you're quite right about the pushing the first 1/2 mile and the juices not yet quite up to speed. It looks very like that's where you will most likely have kicked off a batch of Lactic and then the dip in speed as respiration tries to catch up / clear it. The second mile system seems to have caught on, with a steady increase in the HR as you get further up the hill. Then, as you slow down, towards the end, the HR eases as the system catches up with your activities. Where I live, as there is a perimeter road round the estate. It not perfectly flat, but nothing to cause a gear change. If I follow that round, it joins some traffic lights, where it joins the main road, at somewhere just over 2/3 ml. The last 50yds to the lights is a slope, not serious, still in 6th out of 8 gears. I set off from home at a pleasant speed, equivalent to mid-range jogging and let the speed wash down on any slight slope, with no more effort on the legs. Getting to the lights, I go for the slope, probably equivalent to about 10-15 yds sprint, similar number of leg rotations to sprint paces. After the lights, the roads is almost level and the pace goes back to jogging equivalent for at least another 1/2 mile. I'm really lucky, it makes for pretty good "warm-up" conditions and from the end of that, the pace can go up steadily, to comfortable levels and the more challenging hillier parts. I wonder what your speed & HR figures would look like if you did the run, with a more relaxed first mile and a couple of 50yd sprints after the 1/2 mile point. Best wishes

I can't think of anything special, but the US have a habit... putting the month before the day, which becomes Sept 11..... Perhaps that's what you were referring to. 🙊

That 10.2 MPH is very respectable for 141ft in just over 3 ml. That's also a very long steady distance to be working at and the temptation to push just that bit extra, on some bits, brings on Lactic Acid, in a very short time, with associated discomfort. There's also a drop in performance rate, whilst O2 is being diverted for recovery from the Lactic Acid which was produced. I have found that rather tends to reduce the enjoyment and resisting the urge to push quite so hard on parts of a long uphill haul, is more enjoyable and still get from A - B, with exactly the same energy input and very little difference in times {Thinking about that, perhaps slightly better time, without diverting some O2 for Lactic recovery... }

I'm not quite sure how surprised / or not, I actually am about Alexa's failure there. It is, when all is said and done, a very simple mental exercise to place both measurements into equivalent figures and the subtraction is even more simple, so from that point of view, certainly well within it's calculation capacity. Presumably nobody in the design department thought it to be worth the input - perhaps not quite so surprising. Change, by unannounced omission... umm? My, still, just school aged, daughter likes to extoll the virtues of the SI system and is prepared to jump from a great height on any suggestion that some aspects of other systems made their use easier through practical simplicity {Ft, Yd, Inch and others}. However, every now and again she encounters a mental conflict which catches her off-guard and it's outwardly visible - 1/3 being not at all uncommon {and other similar examples}. She rails, within, when trying to settle how to divide £1, equally, between three people - and similar none existents. 🤣

Those views seem close to ones I used to live in, near Karnkie and at the Basset Mine. It's just visible in the second picture, to the right of the Mine buildings and wss the Basset Counthouse. It also had one of the Coolest fox's I have ever seen. He used to sit in the car park and watch the local hunt trying to follow the trail he had laid, before walking down the stream to the Courthouse car park, to see the resulting confusion. Julian

Which major retail outlet branch were you looking for? 🤣 Hat, coat..... Woosh, gone.....

Wonderful pictures and landscape, lots of back scene ideas there, with clear distance tones to use. That's all a great reason to put up with the climate swings, and the occasional bear. ... Is that some young fella, you met on the hike??

... and some, actually need you to look out of the windows, to see where you are heading.... I know, confusing, ain't it...

It's difficult enough to play anyway, let alone with a smaller team.....

Blimey... you were late getting there. Given where you are, when you took those pictures, you can't have caught that last train. Still, on the bright side, what a lovely place to have to book into the local, for Beers, Diner and a place to kip. Enjoy ... we enjoyed the views, too.

Oops.....

It would seem possible that even the more vociferous of posters might be distracted by such an attention grabbing personal approach.

Amazing how the lack of a revenue source concentrates the mind..... That said, it's good to see it has happened.

Google was a relief..... 🙈

I had an MG Midget J2 {1932 and rather basic} for over 4 years, when father decided that - as I had become a fledged teacher - it was time for an upgrade. He would loan me the money, to be paid back at an agreed rate, so far so good. He appeared one day, in a powder blue Morris 1100, which he thought was a suitable replacement. I can't disagree with the jist of the observations above - less draughts, cornered ok, more power - BUT!!! - Instead of being cocooned as part of the machine {If memory serves, 3' 6" wheelbase, 3' seating width} - sat in a vacuous Morris box - upright!! A gearstick that would have been more suited to a pensioner walking to the shops and none to sure about which of the slots it might wander into. Totally lacking in the connection with the environment experience, with glass wind-up windows, where was the feel of where the car was travelling, let alone pulling the elbow inside the door, when passing through "Bovine" deposits on the local roads. Potholes passed over resulted in a floating sensation, not quite feeling like a decent grip on the tarmac, which didn't instil much confidence. Oh and the exhaust had the roar... of a baby passing gas and excrement into a nappy. Driving had been reduced to an experience similar to a cinematic experiment simulating driving a pancake on custard - brilliant... if that's the style you want..... {N.B. Back then, Powder Blue wasn't exactly a colour suitable for a PE Teacher..... No personal problem, it just wasn't the "in thing" back then.} Thankfully, within a month of protest, the problem was resolved with another MG, a B this time, early, original low suspension, unrestricted breathing and matching tyres and in touch with the environment- again. Father, some years later, redeemed his choice, with a 1300, Riley TC, which had the ability to ask the driver to pay attention, with good reason. It was good to see that the Old Boy got it worked out in the end. {Nod to Mark Twain, there... 🤣 }

Possibly the Docks... ... but don't call me Shirley.

Possibly not, for a "Live Steam" loco..... 🤭

I did notice that a shop in Salisbury {are we allowed to mention that it was Staples??? 🤐 🙊} had a few Letrasets, perhaps rather basic, sets on sale. They also had a Dymo machine and some tapes for it, which also surprised me a little.

Interesting bit of video editing there. Timing the appearance of the con rods, the first two shots of the loco reversing, were about twice the speed of the last one. It's difficult to see whether the first were speeded up, or the third one slowed down. The smoke and steam looked more of a familiar pattern of velocity and expansion patterns in the third one, but that's not entirely reliable. Also the speed it actually hit the carriages in the first two, also looked to be such that there would have been more displacement of the coaches, again, maybe just an impression. Perhaps the journalists were in a hurry to get the story out.....

I think this is one of my sources https://www.dccconcepts.com/manual/soldering-the-black-art-de-mystified-part-1/ {One of Nine three articles, which I found transformed my soldering from totally agricultural, into recognisable rubbish soldering.} If you scroll down to page 5, just above the 3 pictures at the bottom of the page, there is a reference to a coating, which should remain intact. I can't find the other reference, but I seem to remember that it also said that there was a coating to prevent the iron tip from getting oxidised and should not be abraded with anything harsh enough to remove / damage the coating. I think that keeping the tip "tinned", as you mentioned, is good practice, too, for the same reason.