The Retirement Thread

[Tenkaykev]

I’ll never lose weight. Sitting eating a big bag of cheese and onion crisps! When I was walking home I see Maddie along the road sitting on her turbo trainer making me feel even more guilty

I’ve just climbed off the turbo. We’re trying out a new app, “ Fulgaz” on a two week free trial and so far it’s been impressive. Cycled the Forth Bridges in glorious sunshine ☀️
One aspect that is different from our usual “Rouvy” app is the perceived effort required. From what I can gather, most of the smart trainer apps set a difficulty level of 50%, so a 20% hill in real life will give a perceived effort of 10% ( this is also dependent on the individual model of trainer, with the more expensive models being able to reproduce a higher climbing grade ) The Fulgaz app defaults to 100%

 

[gavroche]

Good morning all. Highlight of the day today: going to Asda in Bideford, then a lazy afternoon doing not much. Not surprised it takes me a long time to go to sleep at night.
I bought my wife one of those watches that can check your heart beat, tell the time, how steps you walk and god knows what else. Anyway, her medication has been altered and her BPM has gone from 40 to 55 so far, not enough still but going up.
The good news for this year came this morning. Our daughter has had the result from the full body scan she had last week and it is all clear, so next now is her last operation to remove the last bit, then radio therapy to blast any ramifications and she should be alright for many more years.
Next is to finalise her divorce on the 14th of next month, get a completion date for her new house and all will be well at last.
Have a good day everyone.

 

[Dirk]

Next is to finalise her divorce on the 14th of next month, get a completion date for her new house and all will be well at last.
Have a good day everyone.

Finalising her divorce on Valentine's Day?
And who said romance is dead?

 

[Juan Kog]

OH -NO I've only been away just over 2 hours, some ones gone and started yet another Brexit thread.😤

 

[classic33]

Good morning folks, I'm still in bed, its still very dark and cold, but I've had a look out the window and we still have snow on the gound, I'm on my own this morning, which feels strange, my Good Lady has had several falls, she fell in the house twice yesterday, so she's gone into hospital for an assessment.

Hope there's good news on the hospital front.

 

[classic33]

Anyway....... Haggis.....or Haggises.
Just reading that they/it is of English origin. The earliest recorded mention is definitely english.
I imagine the ruler at the time said something like..... "what is the shite you are eating, let them kilt, sporran wearing barbarians have it".

Believe Lancashire claimed the intellectual rights to it. Meaning Scotland can't.

 

[gavroche]

Finalising her divorce on Valentine's Day?
And who said romance is dead?

Valentine's day and divorce don't really go together do they?

 

[BoldonLad]

Overcast, and snow promised for this afternoon/evening, but 4c at moment, and we got our 5 mile walk in.

That is the good news.

Log in to HMRC Self Assessment, why do they need so many id numbers?, Government Gateway number, Unique Taxpayer Reference, National Insurance number, plus of course a password, then, they insist on sending you a text with a 6 digit onetime id to your phone. All this, to find they owe me 4p!

My repeat prescription has expired, nothing from GP Surgery, so, used their App to order more medication. Result... a text message telling me to make a 20minute telephone appointment with a Healthcare Assistant. I am interested to know what he/she is going to discuss with me for 20 minutes! No doubt this is going to turn into a saga.

I hate bureaucracy, as you make have gathered.

 

[Paulus]

Valentine's day and divorce don't really go together do they?

Quite a lot of irony though

 

[numbnuts]

I've been for a walk, pie and pickels for lunch

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Just ridden my bike for the first time in over a week. Took the studded mtb along the canal, water on top of churned up then frozen snow, completely unrideable without the studs. Unwalkable too, I had it all to myself

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Thank you to all that wished my good lady well, the only news so far is that they've increased the dose of the pregabalin she takes and she is seeing a bone specialist, so some progress, more than last time she was in.

 

[The Rover]

I’ve just climbed off the turbo. We’re trying out a new app, “ Fulgaz” on a two week free trial and so far it’s been impressive. Cycled the Forth Bridges in glorious sunshine ☀
One aspect that is different from our usual “Rouvy” app is the perceived effort required. From what I can gather, most of the smart trainer apps set a difficulty level of 50%, so a 20% hill in real life will give a perceived effort of 10% ( this is also dependent on the individual model of trainer, with the more expensive models being able to reproduce a higher climbing grade ) The Fulgaz app defaults to 100%

Ive used fulgaz for a few years, it’s great, hundreds of rides available with various difficulties. I pay annually and it works out at about £8 a month.
There’s a very helpful Facebook group as well which the owner and support team dips into as well.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Ive used fulgaz for a few years, it’s great, hundreds of rides available with various difficulties. I pay annually and it works out at about £8 a month.
There’s a very helpful Facebook group as well which the owner and support team dips into as well.

Thanks Rover, 👍
We tried a few apps out when we got the trainer a few months into lockdown. We settled on Rouvy as it has a family subscription so we are paying about £11 per month on a rolling basis. I didn't try Fulgaz as I think we were getting a bit swamped with all the apps.
When I downloaded yesterday I had a dig around and see that I can add a user at no additional cost if I take out a yearly subscription. That is the equivalent of just over £7 per month and as you say, it's an absolute bargain at that price.
There's no version that will run natively on a Mac so we're using it with an iPad which works well enough. I've been playing around with screen mirroring from iPad to monitor but that is a bit flakey.
I'm not a facebook user but I'll have a dig around online and see what I can learn.

 

[GM]

I’ve just climbed off the turbo. We’re trying out a new app, “ Fulgaz” on a two week free trial and so far it’s been impressive. Cycled the Forth Bridges in glorious sunshine ☀
One aspect that is different from our usual “Rouvy” app is the perceived effort required. From what I can gather, most of the smart trainer apps set a difficulty level of 50%, so a 20% hill in real life will give a perceived effort of 10% ( this is also dependent on the individual model of trainer, with the more expensive models being able to reproduce a higher climbing grade ) The Fulgaz app defaults to 100%

Just had a look at the Fulgaz app, looks interesting and quite reasonable as you and Rover have said. The only downside what I can see is the camera angle on the group rides seems low, feels like you're riding a recumbent. I'll look into it more when I get my man cave set up. Thanks for the heads up!