The Retirement Thread

[gavroche]

Bonjour tout le monde. Well, I am back and Mrs G and I had a beautiful holiday in the Med. Lovely, warm weather everywhere we went and
nice people too. The screw on board were fantastic, hard working, polite and courteous and always a smile on their face.
Rome is a beautiful city but we won't go there again because there are too many people, thousands of them everywhere so you can't appreciate the beauty of all the sights.
Pompei was well worth a visit too.
Our favorite place was definitely Ajaccio in Corsica. Good food, lovely town, nice people and scenery.
The ship was very spacious and the entertainment in the evening was top class , in a beautiful theatre.
The only drawback is the fact that I may put a few pounds on so I will need to get back on the bike regularly but that isn't a problem.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Hi Everyone
This is the question i'd rather put to fellow retirees than in the general discussion thread.
Has anyone fell out of love with cycling?I have and i just can't seem to get my mojo back.
After riding consistently for years i can remember the time i came back in November 2024 after a cold windy ride and said to my wife i just didn't enjoy that and i'm not riding again through the winter.
Through that winter i started doing brisk walking every other day for about five miles and really enjoyed it and since then i've done more walking than cycling.
I just don't miss the faff of putting on cycling gear(winter) and making sure i have everything else like pump,inner tube levers etc.I just wonder also whether it's the traffic,potholes i don't miss or the same routes i have done forever.
I am hoping i can get my mojo back as i used to love cycling.
Sorry about the moan.

 

[PeteXXX]

No exactly
The different parts all have their own tastes and textures

so a fork with bacon and mushrooms will have a different taste and texture to black pudding and egg
etc

liquidise the whole thing and you are like the mathematician who starts solving a practical problem about cows by saying
"First consider a spherical cow"

and no I can;t remember where that comes from

Breakfast soup.... Mmmmm 👌

 

[Dave7]

Had my haircut and feel better.
Had a yogurt with a banana.
Feeling better than I did earlier so will go for a walk in the sunshine.

 

[gavroche]

Hi Everyone
This is the question i'd rather put to fellow retirees than in the general discussion thread.
Has anyone fell out of love with cycling?I have and i just can't seem to get my mojo back.
After riding consistently for years i can remember the time i came back in November 2024 after a cold windy ride and said to my wife i just didn't enjoy that and i'm not riding again through the winter.
Through that winter i started doing brisk walking every other day for about five miles and really enjoyed it and since then i've done more walking than cycling.
I just don't miss the faff of putting on cycling gear(winter) and making sure i have everything else like pump,inner tube levers etc.I just wonder also whether it's the traffic,potholes i don't miss or the same routes i have done forever.
I am hoping i can get my mojo back as i used to love cycling.
Sorry about the moan.

I understand your problem as I feel the same in winter. I hate cycling in the cold and windy conditions , so I barely cycle in winter. Come the spring, although I tend to do the same routes , the enjoyment comes back but I do try different routes some of the times.
I don't think I would enjoy walking as much somehow as I think it is to slow for me. With cycling, you can cover greater distances within a reasonable time and I like that, even if it is only 20 or 30 kms, you feel you have done something and it was worth going out.

 

[mistyoptic]

Hi Everyone
This is the question i'd rather put to fellow retirees than in the general discussion thread.
Has anyone fell out of love with cycling?I have and i just can't seem to get my mojo back.
After riding consistently for years i can remember the time i came back in November 2024 after a cold windy ride and said to my wife i just didn't enjoy that and i'm not riding again through the winter.
Through that winter i started doing brisk walking every other day for about five miles and really enjoyed it and since then i've done more walking than cycling.
I just don't miss the faff of putting on cycling gear(winter) and making sure i have everything else like pump,inner tube levers etc.I just wonder also whether it's the traffic,potholes i don't miss or the same routes i have done forever.
I am hoping i can get my mojo back as i used to love cycling.
Sorry about the moan.

We are definitely "fair weather" cyclists, which means little activity over the winter months.

I find myself put off, in this country, by the perception of traffic hazard. Perhaps it's an age thing.

Interestingly, even when I'm reluctant to go out, once we're out there in the fresh air I enjoy it. Same routes is an issue, transporting the tandem elsewhere can be a chore.

We've started doing some of the BCQs which makes things more varied. Just planned a few days away in Lincolnshire to do the BCQs there and friends have invited us to join them for similar in Gloucestershire