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Road Cycling “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway

Addiction 2021.1

Old 02-12-21 | 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I did. Despite a 30-hour hunger strike and 10-degrees below normal temperature, I willed my way through it. Quasi-slow jog temp. On the MUP I saw a quasi-fat tandem bicycle. wut Its tyres were obese, but not fully fat.
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Old 02-12-21 | 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by rjones28
You're a jogger now?
Almost.
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Sharon from Dayton. Is she younger than you? Meaning sub 50.
We're both sub-50.
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Old 02-12-21 | 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Almost.

We're both sub-50.
So you're a yute? Did you do anything interesting this week? I rode a bike and managed to stay out of the hospital.
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Old 02-12-21 | 08:01 PM
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Good deal, and I hope you don't get knocked down too hard.

I have an appt on Thursday. Once the Director found out we're dealing with the public, driving their junk, and otherwise mingling with the great unwashed, he gave us a link to set an appointment. Plus, age and some of that damn COPD, sort of put me in there.

I almost think I may have had it, in hindsight. I had a slight cold, but no other symptom. No fever, no loss of senses, none of that, other than a sore back. The sore back I attributed to weights, and didn't think twice. Lately though, my breathing is a little worse for wear, and I don't like that. I wouldn't think twice other than the fact that it came on almost overnight, so who knows.
Were you tested?
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
So you're a yute? Did you do anything interesting this week? I rode a bike and managed to stay out of the hospital.
Have you not been keeping up with the thread? I chronicled many of my activities here.
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Old 02-12-21 | 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by BillyD
Were you tested?
Nossir. As far as I know, I hadn't been exposed. I've been very cautious, and aware of my surroundings and interlopers coming into my space. I'm likely just suffering a bit of hypochondria, and just starting to feel my age. Someday, I may start acting my age, but that's long into the future.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Have you not been keeping up with the thread? I chronicled many of my activities here.
walking is not interesting. Neither is starving yourself. Did you make a difference this week?
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Received my second vaccine dose yesterday, so today I'm experiencing a smidgen of nausea this morning, low grade fever and chills, but high grade fatigue. Well worth the price of admission, though.
All good, Bill. You want to be sick from this thing.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
walking is not interesting. Neither is starving yourself. Did you make a difference this week?
My hunger strike raised the temperature 0.0001C. You're welcome
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My hunger strike raised the temperature 0.0001C. You're welcome
Show your work.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
I rode a bike and managed to stay out of the hospital.
I have an important question. In 2021 have you ridden more miles on Tuesdays or Thursdays?
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Apologies to Dr. John. RIP.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I have an important question. In 2021 have you ridden more miles on Tuesdays or Thursdays?
you will have to wait for the big reveal at year's end.
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
you will have to wait for the big reveal at year's end.
Why can't you say now?
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Old 02-12-21 | 09:08 PM
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Year of the Ox.
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Just got invited to do 100+ miles tomorrow. Just 2 other guys but a lot of climbing. I declined because I've become a wuss. Also got invited to a mtb ride in a fun area. I was planning to do a 40 mile ride with 4K feet with a small group. It's good to have choices but it sucks that I am so bad at decisions.
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How come we haven't graduated to 2021.2?
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I used to wonder how some members racked up so many posts, and then I read some of this thread....
are you sure?
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Here’s a not staged pic w/ dork disc and no pedals...


dear oh dear. NDS. in the small ring. cranks not properly aligned. valve stems not aligned.
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Another cold, wet day in paradise.
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Another cold, wet day in paradise.
Clearly, it’s not the year of the mouse.
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Clearly, it’s not the year of the mouse.
See post #5966
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See post #5966
That is what inspired me!
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