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

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I find that having an ebike means that I feel I need to keep it "in use" when possible

I draw the line at riding in cold rain - but in winter it does give me an incentive to use it in half decent weather if I can

it is to do with the concept that the battery lasts longer if it is used and recharged from time to time and not just left "in the shed" for 6 months

I actually didn;t ride the folder one winter - and since then the battery has been dead and will not recharge
I do not actually know why that is - but lack of use might be a factor

 

[Tenkaykev]

The screw on board were fantastic, hard working, polite and courteous and always a smile on their face.

Was it a prison ship?

 

[Binky]

Beautiful morning and had a good ride but ploughing into that wind was tough
28 miles and 2600ft so bit of climbing but it was headwind which was way harder.
Also 3 close passes in that one short ride which was ridiculous. I'll be sending reports in.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

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.

Both walking and cycling are monotonous and repetitive activities and I easily get bored with them.

Both are simply part of my general exercise routines and are tolerated as part of that.

A break from the activity or a genuinely new location, not just a brand new route, can perk up my interest in either.

We have friends to the south of us and their whole life revolves around walking - they are out of their house walking at every opportunity and their holidays are of the walking variety. Good for them, they enjoy it and are fit but it's not for me. Way too 'same old, same old' to interest me.

So... you are not alone!

 

[PeteXXX]

Pleasant snooze has been snoozed 💤 👌

 

[Dave7]

Did my walk. It was hard work as part of it was through where they are building the new houses and the paths are really churned up and uneven. I managed 2.1 miles though and am now knackered.

 

[Mo1959]

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’m the same sadly. 10 years ago I was almost obsessive and was doing big miles and lots of climbing. I went out in all weathers.

Roll forward to last year and this year, I have almost totally lost the enthusiasm for it. I’m starting to feel my age and also feeling far more nervous and vulnerable on the roads now. I pretty much only go out a few days in May, June and early July at silly o’clock in the morning if I do go. Even the thought of mechanicals worry me more.

I prefer walking with the occasional jog when I feel up to it. Even on the roads it feels safer as you are facing oncoming traffic.

 

[Chief Broom]

Afternoon folks bit of a hum drum day as resting the old legs, will go out tomorrow. Pricked out some leeks into pots and will plant them out in a couple of weeks. My pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign' came in the post, a bit battered but potted it up and it will soon recover from being posted.

Blue Ensign

 

[numbnuts]

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