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Not been out since mid December and feeling it... Combination of new pup arrival, short sleep nights, and in the last week or so snow and ice and limited ride options from home... Hoping to get out this week sometime once the ice disappears tho..
Yup. Asthma flare-up, been on steroids and antibiotics for the past two weeks.
ONly the mile to work.
very cold weather is good if the ground freezes, but so far it's just a cold sloppy mess so, yes I've been out once but should have been out more..
Riding helps keep me sane, long lay off last year due injury and was getting back into it last summer. Have been WFH since March and rides brought well needed headspace. Dog walks will be starting soon thankfully !
No, May start thinking about it in March
Same here, not been out since mid December. Combination of working nights, everywhere local is muddy clay and lack of mojo.
Not been out since November.
Every day I’ve been off work it’s either been pishing down or black ice.
I spent 22 weeks laid up with a ****ed up leg a few years ago, I don’t fancy repeating the experience, so I’m more careful than i was.
Not been out.
Last ride in the Peak in mid December was so godawful that I can't face it.
I'm turning into s fat lazy shite quite quickly.
Not been out since this morning. Hope this helps 😉
Yes Grant, I did see that on your Strava .. 🤪
Not yet this year. Started a running training plan just before Christmas towards a couple of big events I'm hoping to run this year and have focused on that. When a 'cross training' day comes up and the conditions aren't so manky, I'll get a ride in.
Me. Had an abscess on my hand over
Christmas. It’s cut out now but still a bit raw. Won’t be long though, I think this is the longest I’ve never ridden after NY for 15 years!
9 rides in, here...
(I'd swap quite a few of them for having a job, mind...)
Not been out since Dec 17th,had a fall, and bruised formerly broken ribs, ready now and should be out in the morning, weather permitting.
Nope mixture of sciatica and trying to roll out the vaccine programme
Not yet. Last ride was 100km on Dec 15th.
Because I got Covid, and I can confirm it’s rubbish. Would not but again.
I have run every day this year however. Even though the first few were literally a mile long.
If I can get a 100km ride (at whatever pace) done before the end of the month I’ll be pleased, really want to tick off a 100km each calendar month this year.
No, May start thinking about it in March
same.
6th December was my last one. I now have the gut to prove it !
Got the covid just before Xmas and has caused me knee problems. Hope to be out in 2 weeks.
I have had a 6 year lay off and climbed back aboard in July last year.
I have been banging out the miles and feel better than I have for many many years.
I hope those who can’t will get out soon if they can.
I am so glad I have found the drive to get the cranks spinning again after a period in intensive care only two years ago.
My return has been hard and I don’t mind admitting coming back to this group has been an incredibly important part of my steps.
1200 ft of ascent over 14 miles today over incredibly (for me anyway) challenging ground was the lead in to ‘21 that I needed.
Stay strong folks and get out, if only for a miles, what comes next is what it’s all about.
Happy trails
Only virtual for me so far this year. Home schooling has put paid to my day off ride so that I suspect will be it unless I go out with the children.
Great post monty, good on you 👌👍
Last ride was new years eve. Been running a few times, but can't be arsed with the slop. Local trails are not very good in slop.
Been busy with DIY as well. Taken two chimney breasts down this weekend. Two more next weekend as well....
As I said in the Morzine thread my last enjoyable ride was in August 2019. It's the first break I've ever had in 30 years of riding.
I've had a few attempts at local stuff but been caught on crap trails in awful weather and just sulked all the way home.
I can't face it now and I don't know how to get started again. Slogging along soggy, boring bridleways, freezing cold and covered in shite. Might find around 2 minutes of actual fun trails for every 40 minutes of misery. I'm over it. Riding bikes on Plague Island is absolutely soul destroying and I'm starting to find other things to enjoy. Double vitamin D just won't cut it, I need a brain transplant.
I'd give my left bollock for a day on some sunny mountains but that seems totally impossible for the foreseeable.
Ridden every day this year but only two have been outside. The rest have been on Zwift thanks to the local options being sloppy and busy.
Normally I hit all the localish trail centres in the New Year to give me a solid boost for the year ahead but that's not an option this time, really missing them! The combination of limited riding, living alone and no job is tough on the old motivation. So far keeping to the 90 day exercise challenge to keep me sane but it's too easy to leave it too late in the day and do a Zwift ride. Must improve the indoors/outdoors ratio!
No riding here - we're too icy, and the one attempt didn't get out our own road before we gave up.
Achilles tendon debridment, that a few more months, and no job. Bummer!
Well for me it was the first ride on the Fattie since last Feb in a bit of snow up on the Cotswolds but have been out on a stache and CX bike this year plus I ride to work and you get very little time of for Christmas it is very damp yukky winter well it is in the Cotswolds and very cold for round here these days was great Christmas day when the sun was out and stayed frozen just give it time your get into it again just keep the dog poo of the trails or hang the bag in the trees which a lot of people do around here enjoy the puppy.
I did Festive 500, finishing on 30th Dec then did nothing until a short MTB ride in the snow on Jan 3rd.
The ice on the roads and the freezing slushy mud on the trails meant I stayed off the bike until a short ride on the CX yesterday all on road. Ice has mostly gone, just a few patches of crusty snow on the very minor roads.
Today was just miserable, damp drizzly cold all day so I wasn't going out in that!
Had a 60 miler planned for NYE. Had to bail after 40 miles because I was so cold and miserable. Haven’t been outside since as everything has been frozen ice since but have been battering the turbo every day
Nope. Really pushed the running and core instead. Gives me something to look forward to. Where I live everyone HAS to drive to exercise. Roads are as busy as summer at weekends.
Been on three rides (total) since April 2020......
Covid / work has ment it's on the back burner....
Fitness is out the window so im dreading how short my next ride will be....
No rides yet. Did my ribs on the last ride of 2020 (30th December), and between work and looking after the kids I would of struggled to find time.
Not to mention any proper off-road riding requires a car journey and with the current restrictions that's a no for me.
Only Zwift and Turbo miles. Normally stick to running this time of year but got plantar fascitis which I really, really could do without during a pandemic lockdown.
So its just been hammering Zwift and the odd early morning bodyweight workout in the local park.
Plus if I'm really honest I only have one road bike that is rideable and its pretty new (and expensive to me) so I am reluctant to slog it through the winter roads unless we get a surprisingly dry day at some point.
Finished Festive 500 and not been in a bike since. Conditions and illness have scuppered it so far. Hopefully I’ll get chance next week.
Not a lot at all, been doing up our house that’s from late 18th century so had lots to do...
Went out for a road ride on the MTBs today (no trails around us) and just before we set off my gear cable snapped!! Bike telling me not to neglect it😆
Smacked up my knee on 27 December bringing a good 2020 to a sudden end and today was my first attempt to ride again. Slow and steady on some slippy, slushy stuff up in the fog, and walked down one lovely bit- a sheet of ice with Millstone Grit boulders sticking out of it- but just pleased to get the legs moving again. No reaction from the knee either. Onwards and upwards
I'm beating myself up after only going out for three short rides totalling ~3.5 hours over the past four days, having had 11 days off work.
Felt fatigued after completing Festive 500 indoors and ever since, it's also been a mix of freezing weather and feeling incredibly groggy.
Even had ice spike tyres on the bike so no real excuse, just couldn't push myself out the door, SAD is dominating my energy levels quite badly.
I took the kids out (smallest on the weeride) on 2nd January. It looked chilly so we wrapped up. It was bastard freezing so we lasted about 20 minutes when usually we're out for at least an hour. That's it so far.
Wanted to get the gravel bike out the shed today to get it back running but it's just too easy to stay inside when the weather is this horrible.
Not me, too much work, no night riding mojo and too much ice for me as well. Lots of walking and swimming though. Hopefully next week......
First ride of the year done today with the good woman, last half hour as she fell on ice and badly bruised her leg then the coldest rain ever known to man almost froze my scalp through my helmet. Better luck next time I reckon.
Not been out since mid-September. Broke C2 (neck) in 3 places, dislocated shoulder and shattered collar bone but still alive, not paralysed (now) and got a ride in a mountain rescue winch and helicopter. Working on grip, balance, range of movement and straightening up my hip before I get back on. Besides, the weather is crap 🙂
Me
Not been out yet, hurt my shoulder (mildly) moving a shed in the first weekend of the new year and it's aggravated an old injury.
Got a new gravel bike I'm itching to ride, for local area it's the best tool for the job (in fact it was bought with lockdown in mind - sorry - you know that feeling where you wash the car on Saturday and the heavens open five minutes later?).