Definitely too hot. I couldn't even consider it without a decent sized fan. I use air con as well but it hardly works. Can't wait for winter and the old chain gang starting up again. With Geoff back and running it with any luck
Yes at 57 degrees north we get long days. But pay for it in the winter. That's why it was so nice to ride your dipford loop video in December.Wow, sunrise 4:13 AM!
You could get a decent pre work ride in in you started that early!
Geoff
Good luck on your next 24 hour race Bill, I thought it was only flat in Norfolk lol.
I hope to have the time to run it for you, but no chance I'll be able to compete!
All the consultants have told me to keep my heart rate down as much as I can for the foreseeable, if not the rest of my life.
So far I've done a handful of indoor 20-30 minute sessions at 120-130 bpm and felt OK afterwards.
It'll be three months at the end of this coming week, so I'll try stepping it up a bit and aim to get outside for some of the summer/autumn. Feeling a lot less fragile, but still no way of knowing how hard I should push myself, so the only answer is to be cautious. Can't risk provoking a third stroke!
The plan is to push up the distance and the bpm gradually to say 150 max, which should allow me to ride with friends out to the seaside, etc. Can't get up some of the inclines without the heart rate climbing that high, no matter how steadily you take it.
I reality, after last years much bigger haemorrhage I was back to riding quicker than after this year's much smaller bleed, but then I didn't know it was anything but a one-off.
I seemed totally fine on outdoor runs, I only got a couple of warnings (visual disturbances) after monstrous efforts on the Bkool, twice on the longest Mountain Goat climbs and then the bleed after the Velodrome race, so I'm hoping after a smaller bleed I should be OK so long as I don't get back to the same "flat-out" level of effort.
Perhaps after a few years I may risk that it's fully healed and can take the strain?
I'm gutted as I found the motivation and enjoyment of the competitive element of Bkool made the exercise actually fun. It will be a lot less interesting without being able to push, but hopefully I can still keep fit and keep the weight down.
As the doctors said, at least I can still ride a bike. After two strokes a lot of people are not so fortunate.
Geoff
I know! It's insane for a guy who doesn't even like bikes or mountains.Wow! Just wow!
I'd better show that I can still do it" factor. 
It's all grown on me Bill and I'm still not 50 until July 29th! old beanI know! It's insane for a guy who doesn't even like bikes or mountains.
Of course it could be the "Now that I'm 50
Blimey Geoff you have some bottle to even want to keep going on the bike, most people after strokes like you have had would just take it easy and use walking as an exercise.I hope to have the time to run it for you, but no chance I'll be able to compete!
All the consultants have told me to keep my heart rate down as much as I can for the foreseeable, if not the rest of my life.
So far I've done a handful of indoor 20-30 minute sessions at 120-130 bpm and felt OK afterwards.
It'll be three months at the end of this coming week, so I'll try stepping it up a bit and aim to get outside for some of the summer/autumn. Feeling a lot less fragile, but still no way of knowing how hard I should push myself, so the only answer is to be cautious. Can't risk provoking a third stroke!
The plan is to push up the distance and the bpm gradually to say 150 max, which should allow me to ride with friends out to the seaside, etc. Can't get up some of the inclines without the heart rate climbing that high, no matter how steadily you take it.
I reality, after last years much bigger haemorrhage I was back to riding quicker than after this year's much smaller bleed, but then I didn't know it was anything but a one-off.
I seemed totally fine on outdoor runs, I only got a couple of warnings (visual disturbances) after monstrous efforts on the Bkool, twice on the longest Mountain Goat climbs and then the bleed after the Velodrome race, so I'm hoping after a smaller bleed I should be OK so long as I don't get back to the same "flat-out" level of effort.
Perhaps after a few years I may risk that it's fully healed and can take the strain?
I'm gutted as I found the motivation and enjoyment of the competitive element of Bkool made the exercise actually fun. It will be a lot less interesting without being able to push, but hopefully I can still keep fit and keep the weight down.
As the doctors said, at least I can still ride a bike. After two strokes a lot of people are not so fortunate.
Geoff
Hey Bill there are hills around London
Zoom in on the uk and obviously all the red bits are Everests, not that many really.
http://www.everesting.cc/hall-of-fame/
