I took a week off and with some physio I resumed commuting this week. No discomfort now from the oblique, and sneezing is no longer a 10/10 pain experience
2023 <10,000km Club
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby Retrobyte » Wed Oct 11, 2023 1:28 pm
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby Scott No Mates » Mon Oct 16, 2023 6:03 pm
Hopefully, getting some additional saddle time in over the coming weeks but I'm on my spare bike until I receive my new rims.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby grt046 » Sun Oct 29, 2023 6:04 pm
Productive month with 879 km and 6,132 metres elevation, bringing YTD totals to 7,328 km and 44,823 metres respectively a nice buffer ahead of schedule.
Achieved a pleasing milestone last week rolling through 100,000 km since commencing riding in retirement in 2010 after not having ridden since my teen years.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby warthog1 » Sun Oct 29, 2023 6:32 pm
Well done!grt046 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 6:04 pmRiding stats for October:
Productive month with 879 km and 6,132 metres elevation, bringing YTD totals to 7,328 km and 44,823 metres respectively a nice buffer ahead of schedule.
Achieved a pleasing milestone last week rolling through 100,000 km since commencing riding in retirement in 2010 after not having ridden since my teen years.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby grt046 » Sun Oct 29, 2023 6:52 pm
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby warthog1 » Sun Oct 29, 2023 7:22 pm
Would have been lumpy with a milk crate full of newspapers on the bike.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby grt046 » Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:50 pm
Don't think milk crates existed back then (mid 50's) Papers were carried in a top bar double sided bag made from a sugar bag or similar (hessian) I carried about 70 to 80 papers for my round. Luckily the Advertiser was a small paper then. Used to leave home around 5:30 and be back home at 7:30 for breakfast before school.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby warthog1 » Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:26 am
grt046 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:50 pmDon't think milk crates existed back then (mid 50's) Papers were carried in a top bar double sided bag made from a sugar bag or similar (hessian) I carried about 70 to 80 papers for my round. Luckily the Advertiser was a small paper then. Used to leave home around 5:30 and be back home at 7:30 for breakfast before school.
I delivered papers in the early 80s with a milk crate
The bloody Saturday age even then!
That Hessian bag thing would have made you ride with a wide gait
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby DavidS » Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:36 pm
Didn't you have a horse on the top bar? That's how I used to deliver papers back in the 1970s. I remember Saturday when we would get papers dropped part way around the round as a round would be maybe 100 papers and the Saturday Age was huge back then.grt046 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:50 pmDon't think milk crates existed back then (mid 50's) Papers were carried in a top bar double sided bag made from a sugar bag or similar (hessian) I carried about 70 to 80 papers for my round. Luckily the Advertiser was a small paper then. Used to leave home around 5:30 and be back home at 7:30 for breakfast before school.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby Tim » Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:44 am
6517km YTD.
I need to lift my game a bit to reach 8K for the year.
Everything else is crowding out my cycling time. A fairly physical work load, dog walks and drumming all keep me engaged, active and fit but managing fatigue is becoming more of an issue. It's a fine balance which works well contingent on good sleep. If that falters, I get very, very tired, and grumpy.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby DavidS » Tue Oct 31, 2023 10:16 pm
Doubt I can get to 8,000 this year, but 5,322 to date so should be able to comfortably get to 6,000.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby grt046 » Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:58 pm
Didn't you have a horse on the top bar? That's how I used to deliver papers back in the 1970s. I remember Saturday when we would get papers dropped part way around the round as a round would be maybe 100 papers and the Saturday Age was huge back then.
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Not sure what you mean about a horse. The bags we used were slung across the top tube with a slot either side ..... papers were folded and stacked in the slot to about chest high.
Delivered Herald after school as well and had a number of drop points to pick up. Had 4 pubs on my run (6 o'clock closing) and made good tips from the drinkers.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby MichaelB » Wed Nov 01, 2023 8:13 am
Will see if I can get the centuries back on the radar for Nov & December.
YTD sees me at 5,353km and 45,811m elevation gain. Oh well, hopefully can get to 7,000km for the year
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby DavidS » Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:48 pm
Not sure what you mean about a horse. The bags we used were slung across the top tube with a slot either side ..... papers were folded and stacked in the slot to about chest high.
Delivered Herald after school as well and had a number of drop points to pick up. Had 4 pubs on my run (6 o'clock closing) and made good tips from the drinkers.
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I tried looking for a pic of a horse (couldn't find one), what it was, was a wooden frame which fitted over the top bar and also went down to the down bar (otherwise it wouldn't stay upright) and that kept the bag clear of the wheels and your legs. Bit hard with drop bars but I had a bike specifically for paper rounds and had high handlebars like a dragster style. We used to build them ourselves out of wood maybe 3" x 1". Can't recall if I saw others using them.
I remember delivering the Herald too, then switched to mornings with The Age and Sun. We still get The Age delivered, although they dropped off The Hun this morning, geez what a rag, took all of 2 minutes to read and what I read was pretty much garbage.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby MichaelB » Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:24 am
The additional time for the new & old house has meant that some of the targets for this month aint gonna happen.MichaelB wrote: ↑Wed Nov 01, 2023 8:13 amA better month again for me, didn't quite crack the 800km, but did 783km with 8,029m elevation gain, so a lot more climbing than I have for some months.
Will see if I can get the centuries back on the radar for Nov & December.
YTD sees me at 5,353km and 45,811m elevation gain. Oh well, hopefully can get to 7,000km for the year
Oh well, c'set la vie !
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby grt046 » Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:18 pm
Due to some prostrate issues a very quiet month with only one outdoor ride and a few short Stationery Recumbent gym bike rides for a monthly total of 167 km and 401 metres elevation, bringing YTD totals to 7,495 km and 45,334 metres respectively.
With surgery scheduled for Saturday that will be it for me until 2024 which is a bit short of goal but overall am pretty happy as was comfortably ahead to the end of October.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby MichaelB » Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:10 am
Afore mentioned house activities have meant weekends didn't get much done, but a major increase in responsibility at work (another key PE is moving to another company and I've been handed his role) has meant way to much to learn in short period and a few more hours. Hopefully will settle a bit, but a key time in the project. eeek
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby Tim » Wed Nov 29, 2023 10:38 am
Not too well for a week and off the bike for most of the next, my lowest monthly total for a long, long time.
November - 306km
YTD - 6817km
Oh well, I'll make it to 7000 for the year.
Lower than I'd hoped for, but better than nothing.
Still plenty fit. Daily dog walks, nothing holds back the dog, and vigorous drumming practice.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby Retrobyte » Thu Nov 30, 2023 6:36 pm
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby DavidS » Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:03 pm
November was ok, 442KMs and up to 5,764KM so far this year. Hoping to get to 6,000KM by the end of December, reasonable chance of doing so.
Not sure what I'll aim for next year, I am being made redundant, have chosen this path as opposed to applying for my job for the umpteenth time, so my cycling will shift from being commuting to going out for a ride for the hell of it. Will be interesting.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby warthog1 » Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:23 pm
Hope it works out.
I no longer enjoy my job as much but still have a mortgage. Need to knuckle down and knock it down.
The workforce has changed in my industry and at 55 I am an old man. It definitely has a finite duration.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby g-boaf » Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:10 pm
Sorry to hear that David - that's a rotten thing for this time of the year.
Going for a ride for the hell of it is pretty good as well, you can ride how you want and where you want to, when you feel like it.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby MichaelB » Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:26 pm
Yep, it sucks, and hopefully the future works out better.DavidS wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 9:03 pm...
Not sure what I'll aim for next year, I am being made redundant, have chosen this path as opposed to applying for my job for the umpteenth time, so my cycling will shift from being commuting to going out for a ride for the hell of it. Will be interesting.
DS
It's happened to me 3x. 1st two were very unexpected, but came out OK.
Last one was a bit messy, but in the end walked out with a $140k package (redundancy + LSL) which was very handy for the new house. Still very stressful because of the new house, but ultimately ended up better off. 2nd job post redundancy is now great and really challenging but enjoyable.
Fingers crossed it works out well.
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby DavidS » Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:29 pm
I may never work again which would be nice. I certainly consider myself lucky to be in this situation, but I have worked all my life (first job as a paper boy at age 11!) and I ended up choosing to take the redundancy this time. I work at a university and this is the 8th time in 19 years I've been asked to apply for my own job, seems I finally got the message
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Re: 2023 <10,000km Club
Postby warthog1 » Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:36 pm
You can try something else. If you don't like it just down tools and walk away.
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