FLAT 100 km (62 mile) ride from Garforth, Saturday 19th September, 2026

[colly]

Some good news:

I was starting to feel a bit better this afternoon.

I wandered down to the health centre and managed to get a flu jab despite not booking one because we were supposed to be riding today.

Not such good news:

I am sensing that my usual 12 hours of post-flu-jab shivering is about to start. Which is unfortunate because...

... while I was getting jabbed, my combi boiler developed a fault, so no heating or hot showers until it is fixed. I have a gas engineer coming on Monday morning. Hopefully it will be fixed early next week and not cost my landlady (sister!) too much. I have seen a few videos online which suggest it is almost certainly a faulty spark generator box. If so, it should be a simple and cheapish repair.


I feel that this one is jinxed, but maybe we can still get it done before we run out of daylight hours and the weather turns grotty? It will have to be a Saturday because I don't want to deal with crowded weekday commuter trains.

Troubles you are having just now !!

No single spies huh? No worries, we will see you on the other side👍👍

 

[ColinJ]

No single spies huh?

Either my brain has frozen, or that was a typo?

Ooh, the vaccine shivers are definitely kicking in now! They usually disappear overnight, but in the meantime I think that I will be needing my winter longs on.

 

[colly]

No typo.

For you it's troubles though.

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."

 

[ColinJ]

No typo.

For you it's troubles though.

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."

Ah, Hamlet... we only studied Romeo & Juliet and The Merchant of Venice in English Lit at school!

 

[ColinJ]

Well, I appear to be in another extended lurgy season like the one that I had in the spring...

I feel a bit ill generally but nothing too bad unless I push myself and then it gives me a good slapping!

I can manage an hour of easy spinning on the turbo though so I will make do with that until things get better.

I think that it would be better to put this ride off until the spring now - sorry! I would rather not do it in mid-November or later...

What I will do (if possible!) is to organise a shorter ride from Hebden Bridge when I feel up to it and the weather is ok. It will be on a Saturday and call in at Craggies for lunch after about 45 hilly km. After that, an easy 8 km flat/downhill back to Hebden Bridge.

I will do it on a Saturday that @colly can manage so he can test his newly adjusted biotech! Hopefully, @Dadam, @Pennine-Paul and others will be able to join us.

Fingers crossed that it will be before winter - I am not doing those steep hills on icy roads!!

 

[colly]

Well, I appear to be in another extended lurgy season like the one that I had in the spring...

I feel a bit ill generally but nothing too bad unless I push myself and then it gives me a good slapping!

I can manage an hour of easy spinning on the turbo though so I will make do with that until things get better.

I think that it would be better to put this ride off until the spring now - sorry! I would rather not do it in mid-November or later...

What I will do (if possible!) is to organise a shorter ride from Hebden Bridge when I feel up to it and the weather is ok. It will be on a Saturday and call in at Craggies for lunch after about 45 hilly km. After that, an easy 8 km flat/downhill back to Hebden Bridge.

I will do it on a Saturday that @colly can manage so he can test his newly adjusted biotech! Hopefully, @Dadam, @Pennine-Paul and others will be able to join us.

Fingers crossed that it will be before winter - I am not doing those steep hills on icy roads!!

I bought a new winter jacket a couple of weeks ago. It'll give me a chance to see how warm it is. It's been far to mild of late to wear it.