Not your ride today....

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Anyone else’s ‘SAD’ symptoms / feelings get worse with age ?

I mean I’ve not been diagnosed, I’m not manically depressive or anything: but living like a mole in Winter gets worse with my increasing years…..

I think my SAD possibly isn't hitting me quite so hard in recent years, now 52, had it since early 90s at least. But that might simply be because I've not worked since my long covid began in Oct '22, so I've lost a load of life pressure from my wonderful Royal Mail managers who treated me like **** on their shoes during early years of pandemic. Or my body is more preoccupied with long covid symptoms like brain fog and body aches!

Still get the illogical carb cravings in evenings while stuffed from dinner and the awful sleep pattern, but not so much the deep dark depression.

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Anyone else’s ‘SAD’ symptoms / feelings get worse with age ?

I mean I’ve not been diagnosed, I’m not manically depressive or anything: but living like a mole in Winter gets worse with my increasing years…..

I think it does get worse with age. It`s like trying to remember when did it rain when you were a child ? It never did of course. This morning it started off fairly bright here and it looked promising, but it did`nt last long and I looked at the forecast, more rain starting in ah hour and the afternoon. So to coin Elvis " it`s now or never" and so I went out. I`ll finish this under My Ride Today !

 

[sevenfourate]

Nice pictures. Are those cuttlefish "bones" in the last one?

Thanks 🙏

Yes ! There were hundreds and hundreds washed up on the tideline. Like every two square foot….or less. I did however assemble a few together for that shot….😉

 

[ColinJ]

Since then, I take Vit D3 every winter starting in late September to build it up. That will help replenish what we don't get from being in sunshine and that's what causes the winter blues and SAD.

I have been taking a D3/K2 supplement year round for over 10 years and that may well be why my SAD isn't as intense as it used to be.

 

[ColinJ]

We have seen the glorious east coast sunrises that make @sevenfourate get up early to walk his dog. Now take a look at today's glorious West Yorkshire sunset, which explains why I didn't bother getting out of bed until 13:55...

 

[sevenfourate]

We have seen the glorious east coast sunrises that make @sevenfourate get up early to walk his dog. Now take a look at today's glorious West Yorkshire sunset, which explains why I didn't bother getting out of bed until 13:55...

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That is pretty Grey as Grey goes Col. Makes me want to pull my purse strings in and pour Gravy over everything……

 

[Webbo2]

We have seen the glorious east coast sunrises that make @sevenfourate get up early to walk his dog. Now take a look at today's glorious West Yorkshire sunset, which explains why I didn't bother getting out of bed until 13:55...

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Isn’t Hebden Bridge one of the wettest places inYorkshire, that’s why they built all the mills there.
Not that’s any conciliation.

 

[ColinJ]

Isn’t Hebden Bridge one of the wettest places inYorkshire, that’s why they built all the mills there.
Not that’s any conciliation.

The valley certainly seems to get more than its fair share of rain! Even worse, so do the moors above and they tend to dump it rather quickly down the hillsides, causing flooding.

I think that were generally very selective in picking nice days to film Happy Valley, Riot Women etc!

 

[Webbo2]

The valley certainly seems to get more than its fair share of rain! Even worse, so do the moors above and they tend to dump it rather quickly down the hillsides, causing flooding.

I think that were generally very selective in picking nice days to film Happy Valley, Riot Women etc!

In the late 1970’s or early 1980’s I worked on a friends house in Hebden bridge. He was turning a coach house in to a house and I was labouring for another friend who was a builder. I remembering being outside mixing concrete and it was raining so hard I was wearing two waterproof jackets and still getting piss wet through.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

Probably should have gone for my first outdoor ride of the year today, in the sunny but chilly weather, while seemingly starting to get over the virus we've had the past week or so (straight after something we had through most of January)... But woke up late again and did turbo instead, really struggling towards end of ~70min session.

So maybe not going out was the correct choice, my lungs don't like cool air at the best of times since long covid began.

 

[Homers Double]

Littleborough is worse, the weather rolls in from the east and the first thing it hits is Blackstone Edge, the Pennines. it rises, condenses and dumps its load on us.

I have the same view as Colin but from the other side of the hill.

 

[sevenfourate]

I felt surprisingly good physically; after virtually (Absolutely ?) zero riding for a month; and then 40+miles yesterday. And it was still dry both on the ground and in the air early today when I walked the dog. Which was 100% better than forecast.

So much so I thought I might do a 10-12 mile lap around Town if it held out for an hour 👍

Snow, sleet, high winds and a horrifically cold feeling outside soon well and truly quashed that idea. It really is and I can’t overstate the word ‘rank’ enough……

 

[sevenfourate]

I’ve got this lurgy - that seems everywhere right now. Prepped bike, clothing and nutrition last night in readiness for riding to work today, notching up a point in the 50km challenge. Or just somehow doing ‘some’ pedalling - as the forecast is so nice here in Suffolk for today.

Got up feeling rancid. How I seriously thought I was upto cycling is beyond me. Must be the drugs I’m taking…….🙄

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

I’ve got this lurgy - that seems everywhere right now. Prepped bike, clothing and nutrition last night in readiness for riding to work today, notching up a point in the 50km challenge. Or just somehow doing ‘some’ pedalling - as the forecast is so nice here in Suffolk for today.

Got up feeling rancid. How I seriously thought I was upto cycling is beyond me. Must be the drugs I’m taking…….🙄

If it's the same lurgy that hit me like a ton of bricks during early hours of Sunday, felt like flu and had me faint a few minutes after carrying our little Tesco delivery upstairs, it's a ~48 hour thing to get over worst of it.

I did a tiny hybrid cycle to dentist yesterday afternoon, saw how lovely the weather was and then did a very gentle hour ride on the ebike... My first outdoor rides of the year!😱