jcredfer

Done before...   but, I like it.....

Mary had a little Lamb,

It's fleece was white as snow.

But where the hell it came from,

the doctor didn't know!

32 minutes ago, Ramblin Rich said:

 

But they have parked there. Admittedly not very well.... 🤪

Principal of St Lukes College, Exeter went to Salisbury for a meeting.  At the station, on the way back an intended through train to Exeter stopped, at a signal.  Realising he had an opportunity to get back earlier than expected, he got on and sat down.

The Guard came along as he did so and noticed the new passenger, stopped and said, "You can't get on this train at Salisbury."  To which he replied, "In that case, I'm not on the train". 

Apparently, the Guard, shook his head, slowly, then reached out to clip the proffered ticket, but didn't actually say anything more.

10 hours ago, BachelorBoy said:

Just over one-half of one per cent of the population of Cornwall can speak basic Cornish.

 

And less than one-tenth of one per cent are fluent. 

 

People's Front of Cornwall vs Cornish People's Front,

Just over 9% of the population of Cornwall are fluent in basic English.....     😅

.....   Just popping out for a run.....   bye!!

3 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

BUT - I remember taking a Cycling Proficiency Test .......... does such a thing exist nowadays ?

Yes they do still exist, my daughter did a course a couple of years ago...  oops, time flies... it was actually about 6 years ago...  Oh, wie die Zeit vergeht!

4 hours ago, big jim said:

Final couple of rides this week, tomorrow I’m driving to the depot so I can head straight home, the trip in was a nightmare, to start with it was raining and not long after I set off  I caught the wheel on a kerb and proper came a cropper, an over the handlebar type spill, landed on my shoulder, not hurting much at the moment but I suspect when I get up I’m going to be aching!

 

the trip back was pleasant though, again didn’t overdo it and it felt just right, quickest time this week by a minute or so, the average heart rate was around the same figure as the rest of the week but the maximum was a bit lower than the start of the week 

 

 

 

not on the same job next week now so won’t be able to try and improve further but I do have a few days where I can ride to and from the station from home to get back into that again as I’ve been lazy using the car

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!"  

5 hours ago, big jim said:

thats what I found first time round the weight loss was a bonus of cycling but the biggest advantage was I felt fitter, less lethargic, full of energy but it’s been a nightmare trying to keep the weight off, getting down to 16 stone was wonderful but staying there was hard work, almost like a chore, I’m now back to way over 20 stone again so I know I need to lose a couple of stone as a minimum but the motivation is lacking, I’m hoping these few weeks of using the bike again will re-ignite the want to go and explore old trackbeds and do canalside rides again 

 

Tonights ride back was a real slow affair, a bit of a headwind (10mph) so an average speed of 9.7 mph but my heart rate was pretty much the same as yesterday but with a lower maximum 

 

 

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. 😊 }

1 hour ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

Seemples!

£1 = 240 old pence

240 / 3 = 80 old pence each.

Just tell her it's still some date before 15 February 1971 (Decimal Day).

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...  🫢🤐

1 minute ago, woodenhead said:

I saw some advice the other day, don't go back to the cycling to lose weight again, go back to enjoy the cycling, the weight will then take care of itself.  Otherwise you risk over pushing yourself to strive to achieve weight targets rather than distance or other cycling challenges.

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

9 minutes ago, kevinlms said:

What's special about the 9th of November?

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... }

21 minutes ago, Hibelroad said:

I saw a you tube video of an American woodworker who was trying to explain why he had gone metric ( to American woodworkers metric is the work of the devil).  He asked Alexa what is 460mm  minus 187mm  and of course got an answer. He also asked what is 1 foot 2 and 7 sixteenths of an inch minus 9 and 17 sixty fours of an inch and it blew Alexas brain, total gobbledygook answer, sounded a bit like Dianne Abbot talking about police pay ( hope that’s not too political) 😁

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.  🤣

2 hours ago, kernowtim said:

It's been lovely weather here in the bottom left hand corner of England and been trying to add a few miles onto the evening commute, soon I will be doing this in the dark again!

Managed 16 miles tonight but was getting dark by the time I got home.

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??

2 hours ago, Pete the Elaner said:

 

"I'm sorry the roads aren't wide enough for you. Some of the English cars have steering wheels"

...  and some, actually need you to look out of the windows, to see where you are heading....

I know, confusing, ain't it...

10 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

Funnily enough that was Newcastle, a team that's probably one of the furthest from Wales!

 

I think Liverpool is the only EPL team that has an official Welsh name in Lerpwl. One of the few English clubs that have played in the Welsh FA Cup. The bigger teams usually played reserve teams.

 

Unfortunately UEFA stopped teams that play in English leagues playing in it, even the Welsh ones!

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

2 hours ago, Sasquatch said:

Work on the lift up section is ongoing. There will be a post here explaining how the electrical connections and assembly of the whole thing come together when it's finished. Don't see the point in braking that up into little chunks of information, especially if pictures of the layout are available like these...

 

 

 

 

Squatch

 

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.

2 hours ago, 5944 said:

One for the Joy Division fans...

 

Oops.....

6 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Kicking and screaming?

 

Wouldn't it be more sensitive and productive to lead the thread back on course gently by the hand?

 

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

16 minutes ago, Sweep said:

So I take it they've patched up the reason they fell out?

Amazing how the lack of a revenue source concentrates the mind.....

That said, it's good to see it has happened.

36 minutes ago, 30801 said:

Don't snigger. It was the olden days and time were hard.

 

Google was a relief.....   🙈 

6 hours ago, alastairq said:

As a mid-teenager in the middle of the 1960's, one of the folk I was 'acquainted' with, a young fella just out of college or whatever...drove a Sprite Mk2

When he decided to marry, he felt the need for a more 'family' orientated car..so sold the Sprite and purchased a [mk1] 1100.

I recall how he , oddly, found the 1100 to be far superior in almost every respect to the Sprite..

Comfort, performance, practicality, even road holding...

 

My early driving tuition was somewhat disjointed by also being in the Merchant Navy as a youngster, but I started taking lessons in an 1100, finally taking my test in a 1300 GT.

The only real dislike I had for the 1300GT was, the bling.

 

Much the some way I disliked similar with the mk1 Cortina estate, and its fablon wood panels.

 

I only ever owned one 1100 [a mk1] briefly, in the mid 1970's, when it was over 10 years old, roten as a pear, but I needed some transport very briefly for moving house, so my BIL, who owned a scrap yard, gave to me the 1100 which still had a bit of ticket on it.

Before returning to its scrappy fate, I took all the seats out and used it as a wheelbarrow, shifting what seems like tons of hardcore for my new driveway.

 

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...  🤣 }

37 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

Shwanshea docksh, shurely...

Possibly the Docks...

...  but don't call me Shirley.