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[Mark68]

@Mark68 , hope you are well. Not seen you here or strava recently?

Hi thanks for asking.

Yes I'm ok at the moment. I have been feeling rather rough recently although no covid19 thankfully.
I have had a seasonal cold/bug kind of thing going on for ages...3rd march to be precise. One minute I feel ok then the next rather crap.
I'm thinking when I rode a few sessions last week I may have overdone it by trying to catch up on the incomplete sessions and league rides I missed.
I've also hade work, but different shifts which are finishing in the evening haven't helped either. And I've got into a book recently so that's distracted me from screen time.
Hopefully in a couple of days I'll be fit enough for a ride to work which will be lovely as the roads are so quiet round here.
Hopefully my daughter and I will get on our bikes for a ride one day if the weather stays nice and all the idiots gathering in the parks don't spoil it for the rest of us.

Anyway that's enough of my ramblings.

Take care everyone, stay healthy and happy cycling ☺️

 

[shimceltic]

Hi thanks for asking.

Yes I'm ok at the moment. I have been feeling rather rough recently although no covid19 thankfully.
I have had a seasonal cold/bug kind of thing going on for ages...3rd march to be precise. One minute I feel ok then the next rather crap.
I'm thinking when I rode a few sessions last week I may have overdone it by trying to catch up on the incomplete sessions and league rides I missed.
I've also hade work, but different shifts which are finishing in the evening haven't helped either. And I've got into a book recently so that's distracted me from screen time.
Hopefully in a couple of days I'll be fit enough for a ride to work which will be lovely as the roads are so quiet round here.
Hopefully my daughter and I will get on our bikes for a ride one day if the weather stays nice and all the idiots gathering in the parks don't spoil it for the rest of us.

Anyway that's enough of my ramblings.

Take care everyone, stay healthy and happy cycling ☺

Glad to hear its nothing serious. What book are you reading, you can join mine and Randy's book club.

 

[Mark68]

Just a thought as well. We needed to weigh our dog for some weird reason. ( my wife said I needed to anyway but not sure why. I wasn't listening when she answered my question of why)
Anyway to weigh the dog I weighed myself then picked up the dog and weighed her. Turns out I've lost 2 kilos so if I reduce my bkool weight to 66kg (I think I've put I'm 68) will it give me more power to weight thus making me quicker up the hill? 🤞

 

[Mark68]

Glad to hear its nothing serious. What book are you reading, you can join mine and Randy's book club.

Last days of the first world war. Really interesting as it visits various accounts from different parts of the UK. Soldiers accounts on both sides as well as civilians and those in parliament.

 

[Mark68]

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Be afraid, be very afraid.

I'd like to know how fast you could get down one of those alpine descents

 

[shimceltic]

Just a thought as well. We needed to weigh our dog for some weird reason. ( my wife said I needed to anyway but not sure why. I wasn't listening when she answered my question of why)
Anyway to weigh the dog I weighed myself then picked up the dog and weighed her. Turns out I've lost 2 kilos so if I reduce my bkool weight to 66kg (I think I've put I'm 68) will it give me more power to weight thus making me quicker up the hill? 🤞

Yes and slower down

 

[Mark68]

I'm already too slow dow hill

 

[keithaitch]

Do you listen on races or on easy rides?

What is this easy rides you talk of?

 

[shimceltic]

How is the Milan San remo? Have we doe that together yet? I'm loosing track

 

[keithaitch]

How is the Milan San remo? Have we doe that together yet? I'm loosing track

Good climb and then drop. No I'm just publishing the handicaps for it on Wednesday.

 

[shimceltic]

I'm gonna do the 4pm UK featured ride

 

[perswe]

Good climb and then drop. No I'm just publishing the handicaps for it on Wednesday.

Did it today with @keithaitch although he dropped in late - bad start again keith? . Anyway you probably didn’t spot me some 10 minute up ahead. As usual I was no match for you. Anyway, I still feel drafting is a pretty pointless affair (ok, downhill yes, but flats no). The irregularity of the yellow boxes does not help. But it is definitely more fun to start a race with 50 others than doing it solo. Or with ghosts that cannot be trusted.

Is anyone doing velodromes on bkool? It used to be fun (pre-upgrade) but since then it feels like cykling in a swamp. Having difficulties maintaining speeds above 30kph and is drafting off now or only on those on the same lap? It used to be fun to slingshot on the curves and you could almost get the feel of a proper points race but now one might aswell do a flat video session solo.

 

[shimceltic]

Did it today with @keithaitch although he dropped in late - bad start again keith? . Anyway you probably didn’t spot me some 10 minute up ahead. As usual I was no match for you. Anyway, I still feel drafting is a pretty pointless affair (ok, downhill yes, but flats no). The irregularity of the yellow boxes does not help. But it is definitely more fun to start a race with 50 others than doing it solo. Or with ghosts that cannot be trusted.

Is anyone doing velodromes on bkool? It used to be fun (pre-upgrade) but since then it feels like cykling in a swamp. Having difficulties maintaining speeds above 30kph and is drafting off now or only on those on the same lap? It used to be fun to slingshot on the curves and you could almost get the feel of a proper points race but now one might aswell do a flat video session solo.

I do some warm ups in the dome and they have been OK and drafting was fine

 

[shimceltic]

When I'm clicking a segment on strava I can no longer see the option " following" to compare. @Brusgaard seeing as your the technical dude, any idea?

 

[Brusgaard]

When I'm clicking a segment on strava I can no longer see the option " following" to compare. @Brusgaard seeing as your the technical dude, any idea?

I can select “I’m following” in the drop down here in Safari on the iPad.