I thought it was excellent, the course looked good, and it was easy to move around between spectiating points. we had a very good day out, hope it comes back!

It's not baby-sitting because he's your baby! It's called being a dad.

Bushwhacked, I know we're only hearing your side of the story but it honestly sounds like she is being a bit unreasonable to me. I think a proper sit down chat is needed, as said above. We both went out this morning on our road bikes (separately) and we made a comment when we got back about how next year we'll be riding in shifts, one of us in the morning and one in the afternoon.

mine has always been low, I've never been told it's an issue unless it's so low you're blacking out etc as above.

little local road ride Saturday, then off to watch the world cup at Dalby on sunday.

ours were from Halfords I think.

Dizinaustria seems to be still enjoying life in austria and badger is stil badgering.

Ace, have put Leeds one in diary 🙂

Most of my stuff is pearl izumi, seems to last and reasonable prices.

Mickey mouse hands anyone?? My ex colleagues used to ask to see a monday morning update every week on mine 🙂

happy belated birthday, hope you had a lovely day!

congrats!! Still got aaages to go here. Impatient already, got knows what we'll be like come august!!

you want weird??

Kermit 😳

up till the end of last year, generally one big ride on a weekend of 5 hours or so, and perhaps and evening or smaller weekend ride as well. Now, not much, once every two weeks? Shorter too, 15 miles mtb max, about 35 road max. Soon, not at all for a bit 🙂

another excuse for parents to pass responsibility to someone else for their children's upbringing.

lol yeah an hour a week is really passing responsability for their upbringing on to someone else!

could be ovarian cyst? My cousin had one, was quite big so needed removing, but perfectly harmless.

as above try not to worry.

People died for the right not to vote, I think you mean.

not if you're female, no that's not what you mean.

that was quick Tom, GF still has 6 weeks of notice to work! most frustrating.

I really like Mabie, didn't like Dalbeattie at all.

that's not what I meant. What I meant was, at the time she said something at the show, she didn't forsee all this, understandably.

rivierabike are excellent.

I don't think it's recorded, it was a stage show.

office sweepstake, I have Niche Market.

kevevs, from her blog; jokes about the way people with DS talk, jokes about the way they dress, jokes about the jobs they can do, jokes about their haircuts, jokes about their parents being old and old-fashioned

were any downs kids in the audience?

no but the mother of one was. Do you honestly not understand how she would not have found it upsetting? She has said that if it was just one joke, she would have ignored it, but it just went on and on.

She's a friend of mine.

She has seen FB on mock the week etc many times and always found him funny. She just didn't expect to be there listening to him make jokes about her daughter (yes I know they weren't about her daughter, but you know what I mean). She was feeling uncomfortable, and her husband asked if she was ok or wanted to leave – FB noticed and asked why, so she explained about her daughter and why she was upset. She agrees that his humour is often close to the edge – but obviously this was completely unexpected on what was supposed to be a fun night out with friends. She certainly didn't expect all the attention she is getting from it.

that's great Missingfrontalobe. it's probably more due to my feelings about my depression, but I don't want to have time off with it.

Definitely worth talking to your doc and talk over options like CBT etc , but I agree with TJ (shock!) and would seriously think about whether you really want it to be on your record that you have been off sick with depression.

Good luck.

As above, get a non dealership specialist for great service, there is an excellent one in Leeds we used with the 145, and again now. and the owner's a cyclist.

I've only just seen this. I've never met him, but he always seems like a great bloke, he was lovely to me when we had to cancel our planned trip down to the Qs.

Hope he turns up safe soon.

To echo what everyone else has said, you'll be fine. I've been on my juliana, but also on my hardtail rockhopper that I had before that. Tyres and pads, that'll sort you.

Sorry if my personal view upset anyone, but another problem is that the time you seem to need help is when your not responsive to it.

that is absolutely true. the day you start looking for help, you actually know you are on the mend as you can't look for help when you are at your lowest. Later on, you learn to go for help when you start spotting the syptoms again. I'm just about to ring my mental health midwife as I have started jaw clenching and insomnia again.

One of the good things about STW is that there are loads of fellow sufferers out there, and generally they are very supportive and honest about it.

as I said in my post on the cycling books trhead the other day, I swear there is some sort of correlation between cycling and depression.

How fit are you generally – have you lost a lot of fitness with the knee proble? I did SITS solo last year with no actual training for it, only entered at the last minute. it was fine.

So this guy has now been diagnosed as clinically depressed by a bunch of distracted internet skivers who've never met him?

No, I think you'll find that some of us who have been in the same position noticed some key symptoms which MAY BE caused by depression and advised him to see a professional about it. The symptom I spotted was teeth grinding, this and clenching your jaw are very very common physical symptoms of depression, and one I get myself.

I think you sound like you might be depressed to be honest. I get the teeth grinding thing a lot, it's quite a common symptom, as is feeling lost, flying off the handle etc.

Agree with advice above, go and see the doc.

Ace, glad you enjoyed it!

The thing is, there's nothing you can do about it is there, so you might as well just forget about it. Having said that I had a wobble about being 35 last year, I definitely went though the "what am I doing with my life" thing – was being made redundant at the same time which really didn't help.

But every time I worry about my age, I look at my dad, who at nearly 76 is having the time of his life. He's married to a woman 10 years his junior and goes on about 6 or 7 holidays a year – all over the place – Mongolia, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, to name but a few recent ones. He retired at 60, got married about 4 years after that, so I reckon life actually begins at 60. I'm looking forward to it…

We took them last year in cardboard boxes, Ricb was with us and took his in a bag, no issues either way – they do weigh them though and were giving dire warnings about having packed anything other than your bike in there (which we were somewhat worried about having stuffed ours full of pads, shoes etc as well as bike – but they didn't actually do anything about it).

I'm not, I rode with Domino yesterday from Austwick. Probably ride tomorrow though, not sure if road or mtb yet. GF is off for a fast boys ride up around Bingley / Harden today, and will come with me at preggo pace tomorrow.

That's something that quite interests me actually samuri, not just road riders though – cyclists in general – there seem to be quite a few sufferers on here (myself included) and I do often ponder the correlation of being an introverted depressive loner and being cyclist – it does seem to go hand in hand!