What's your excuse for not being out riding right now?

We are on a flood warning, so I'm waiting until tomorrow so I can go check out the damage on my bike!

Nothing yet, but I am starting to feel better. Lots of rest and avoiding strenuous exercise has helped, I moved house last weekend which I don't think helped at all.

I've had to accept that I am no longer the fastest on my commute though with my current fitness level! It's frustrating and bad for the ego but probably good for my humility and I am learning to ride in a more relaxed way, which is in some ways probably a good thing.

Let me know Fox if anyone gives you any recommendations, someone I know has been the same recently and doesn't know what it is either.

fucked my wrist playing football last night. No bikes for me this weekend

Been already this morn at about 6. Right now on a bus with the dog

Went for a spin over the hills on my geared bike. Glorious day! feel like an unfit sack of runny, bandy legged poo, ate half a kilo of flies, got put in my place by a gnarled 50 something dude in a TVT shirt, but otherwise beauty of a day and warm enough for short sleeves :o Now off into town to look for work ;(

Im still drunk from last night.
And nice bike.

part two of the global financial meltdown is coming soon to bbc news screens near you
i have to stop the armageddon happening

Which exam board do you mark for?

No board, a uni.

Well... I cycled into work this morning, for an 8am appointment. It was beautiful (the ride in, not the clinical appointment).Later, I had a nutritious lunch, planning to get back in the saddle for 3.30pm for an early finish - and a pleasant 18m return leg home.

And then the phone went....
Everyone i work with has left. That idiot Scott Mills is on the radio (its the only station that will hold any clarity), and now i have a 6.30pm appointment.
Its not an excuse for not being out right now - its a fucking burden that i call employment.

@ fox/ spenceey- check for diabetes/ hypo/hyperglaecemia.
classic symptoms, and if you're peeing alot too, head straight to el doctor....

Hmm, that's the kind of stuff I found when I googled the symptoms. I've been putting off going to the doctors because I'm worried they might say something like that, guess I'd better go next week :(

On the plus side I am generally feeling better, presumably diabetes or whatever wouldn't come and go?

Thanks anyway Henry.

Went for a spin over the hills on my geared bike. Glorious day! feel like an unfit sack of runny, bandy legged poo, ate half a kilo of flies, got put in my place by a gnarled 50 something dude in a TVT shirt, but otherwise beauty of a day and warm enough for short sleeves :o Now off into town to look for work ;(

Unemployment doesn't sound so bad....

Hmm, that's the kind of stuff I found when I googled the symptoms. I've been putting off going to the doctors because I'm worried they might say something like that, guess I'd better go next week :(

On the plus side I am generally feeling better, presumably diabetes or whatever wouldn't come and go?

Thanks anyway Henry.

I would pop into your local pharmacy tomorrow or A&E and see if they can do you a sugar (prick)test. If you are diabetic you need treatment asap not on Monday. Diabetes is either type 1 or type 2 and you need to know which one you may have. In the meantime, ensure you take enough sugars/carbs during your waking hours so you don't 'slump' like you have been.

/not a doctor/

left the house in glourious sunshine until I got to the coast road and then rode through 13 miles of fog before turn back in land and sun.....good ride though

I was ridnign then I was drunk ... I fell off three times ... the second time hitting a lampost ... and basically asking Darwin to strike me down and prove natural selection .... but somehow I am still living.

The sun is shining, no wind & 22 deg. I'm at work and there are no customers.

Bollocks.

I don't have one... but I bought enough food to feed an army, so figured I should bbq before going out on the bike. 11am is a tad early for lunch!

Not if you're a hobbit.

that is true, but a hobbit wouldn't fit on my bike... mind I wouldn't have bought it if I was a hobbit... I see where you are going with this.

Its half one, you can have your BBQ now.

And yes, I was going to pass on your details to Hippy.

just back feeling like a well fed whale eating all the flies. through my eyes.

To lazy to replace my bottom bracket / way to much work to do.

Being dumped in Stevenage for 4 weeks on a placement. Nothing to do. Spent the whole of Sunday stripping and servicing my road bike, it's going to be ridden hard.

At work on a Monday, glorious sunshine outside, I was actually saying to my Mrs. on the drive in this morning I really should have cycled to work. But I'm finishing at lunch today so might be able to squeeze in a few miles this afternoon.

Just worked out in the Gym, really pushed it hard ... am totally shattered now.