L2b training - tips and discussion thread

[MarillionFan]

I don't need to practice riding a bike, I can do that.

I need practice rolling over car bonnets. Or avoiding sliding under a van's wheels. Or missing potholes while not riding into the path of a lorry.

May_I_suggest

[suityou01]

BTW, vetran and I have provisionally pencilled in a training ride on 23rd - if you fancy a trip down this way you're welcome to join us.

I have been unable to train. I had a proper serious case of man flu in Jersey, which with monotonous predictability became a very nasty and acute sinus infection. I don't like missing billing days so I went with the man up and it will pass approach. Guess what? It didn't.

I get sinus infections so severe that I get visual disturbances, slurred speech, personality changes. According to WebMD the only available step after that lot is fit, coma and death.

I am just a very sickly person, always getting sick. I have 4 little snotnosed brats that compound the issue. The first time I did L2B I had a heavy chest cold coming, and just got on with it. The second time I had a nasty stomach virus and had to stop every time to have an attack of the galloping wossnames.

I am not an athlete. My general physique is weaker than that of little Tims. Yet somehow I courageously haul myself through 54 miles of it. Last year I caught some weird gut virus that took 6 months to clear through. That annihilated any hopes of L2B. So after nearly 2 years off the bikes I have a fookin job on my hands to be fit in time.

So no, I will not be ready for any 34 mile training rides soon.

<Suity, in seriously pissed off with being ill all the time mode >

[mudskipper]

I have been unable to train. I had a proper serious case of man flu in Jersey, which with monotonous predictability became a very nasty and acute sinus infection. I don't like missing billing days so I went with the man up and it will pass approach. Guess what? It didn't.

I get sinus infections so severe that I get visual disturbances, slurred speech, personality changes. According to WebMD the only available step after that lot is fit, coma and death.

I am just a very sickly person, always getting sick. I have 4 little snotnosed brats that compound the issue. The first time I did L2B I had a heavy chest cold coming, and just got on with it. The second time I had a nasty stomach virus and had to stop every time to have an attack of the galloping wossnames.

I am not an athlete. My general physique is weaker than that of little Tims. Yet somehow I courageously haul myself through 54 miles of it. Last year I caught some weird gut virus that took 6 months to clear through. That annihilated any hopes of L2B. So after nearly 2 years off the bikes I have a fookin job on my hands to be fit in time.

So no, I will not be ready for any 34 mile training rides soon.

<Suity, in seriously pissed off with being ill all the time mode >

Don't give up before you've got going. Plenty of time yet.

[suityou01]

Don't give up before you've got going. Plenty of time yet.

After the beatings I have had on here do you think I'm a quitter?

[BrilloPad]

I've got 2 new tyres and everything.

And a new basket for Christmas.

But I'm frightened that some car will run me down the moment I go onto the main road, so I haven't actually used my bike in over a year.

Maybe I'll get it out one quiet Sunday in June, when it's not raining. Or windy.

I have always found that car drivers are no issue. Its pedestrians that are the biggest danger!

[MarillionFan]

After the beatings I have had on here do you think I'm a quitter?

You have a lot with Freddie Mercury. You've both been beaten around the ring.

[MarillionFan]

Missed the training and gone straight to the bar. Fibbar Mcgees in Sunnyvale. It's bloody freezing over here(!)

[BrilloPad]

After the beatings I have had on here do you think I'm a quitter?

No. I think you are stupid!

And a bedwetter.......

[BrilloPad]

0 miles cycling today. I walked up the great orme this morning at 6am. No swimming as a swimming gala on.

So FRi/Sat/Sun = effectively no training.

I intend to start again Monday morning with a big swim. And I have a "flow swimming" lesson on Tuesday morning.

[mudskipper]

I did do a Parkrun today. My 'usual' which I'd decided not to run and to volunteer instead was cancelled, because it's under water. So I went to a different run with proper hills - ran the whole route, albeit as slow as the walkers (and slower than last time I did that run when I did walk). Got 'shin splints' in leg #2 at the mo - running actually seemed to ease the pain, I think because my knee is mostly bent)