Not as good as my first two weeks. Hard to balance eating carbs when exercising vs weight loss. Down a pound or so tnis week, still well on target for my 1 month goal. May well go back to MFP for a few weeks.

Filled in the survey, completely agree that it needs a good link from the woods to the Roaches. I’ve never ridden the ridge but it would make a great ride. The decent to Goldstitch Moss is fantastic but it doesn;t get ridden that much because it doesn’t fit easily into a loop and also for most of the year it’s a quagmire at the bottom.

I love the place recently ran the Fell race which was hell, and regularly walk there with the kids as they love scrambling on rocks.

Any tips for fitting strength training in a triathlon training schedule which already has 3 runs 3 bike sessions 2 swims and a Pilates class in it. In between Sept and Nov I did 5×5 and was going well but pulled my back not concentrating on a dead lift. I’m now up to full triathlon training, I can’t afford a day off due to sore legs. Plus the runs are high quality sessions I’ve stripped out the junk miles so they bloody hard work.

I’m down 9lb in two weeks, 11Ib since New Years Day despite been on hols for the first week of Jan. I’ve been pretty strict cut out carbs except before and after serious training runs and keeping the calories per day pretty low 1300-1500ish except on tough days. I’m still 7lb heavier than when I pulled my back on the 1st November, I’m now aiming to be there or thereabouts by end of Jan. I’m training pretty hard as I’m planning to do the three peaks fell race in April and the Ironman in July, I want to lose the weight now as I find it gets harder as the long runs and rides really kick in.

Weight on the New Years day 14st 4lb weight today 13st 7lb.

Training week 1 – 4 runs all in the hills 26 miles + 2 hour bike ride

Training weeks 2 – 4 runs 33 miles, 1 ½ spinning, 1 ½ freestyle swimming + 30 minutes pilates

Ive got two GT Grades, one is the tiagra its stock except mudgards and a 105 chainset which i now use as my winter bike. The other is the Sora one as above but with everything upgraded full ultegra disc, crosslight wheels, carbon seat post, ti saddle and light weight bars not carbon as i use clip on tri bars. it which weighs a smidge over 9kg with pedals.

I’ve used the tiagra version in the pyranees including a ride with 4000m of climbing and on 200km audaxes and it was great, super comfy for me. The only problem was the stock pads wore quickly on the decents and the stock wheels/tyres are heavy but bombproof.

I use the posh one as my summer bike as i need something for the cols that can also do forest tracks but i’ve also used it on a hilly half ironman bike leg and it was fine for that too.

Having used the two for the past year or so, i dont think there’s that much in it except i feel i’m riding a nicer bike and the brakes are better on the posh bike. I weigh that much the difference in the bike weights makes no difference in real life.

Watch out for sizing the Large Grade is massive so definately throw a leg over one before you buy.

I have the t5 rack i wouldn’t like to put 4 mountain bikes on it, managed 3. Also I found the jaws scratch the frames.

But the T6 rack is a different design the jaws look a lot bigger.

Never stopped listening to Chill out and I’ve been listening to White Room since this turned up in Macc in November.

Once got a shout out from Bill Drummond on Marc Radcliffes evening show when he was touring the UK making soup for people living on Lay Lines

I always like this one.

it does get a bit easier but we’ve got three in school, with 4 days a week after school and a few weeks holiday club a year it still costs me £6000 a year.

Can i join please,

I was travelling yesterday with no internet access.

Yesterday 14st 2lb

1 month target 13st 6lb

3 month 12st 10lb

6 month 12st dead.

Not the logest and not the hardest but the best ride of my year. Col de Spandelles, Col de Seclour, Col D’Aubisque and Col des Borderes from Argles. Perfect weather beautiful scenery legs felt good, perfect route to the Aubisque, so much better than straight up from Argeles.

At this very moment that my son would stop bottle flipping. When did this become a thing it drives me mad.

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Went from mainlineling caffeine to nothing last New Year felt crap for about 4-5 days. It drink it now before a race has the same effect on me as speed. I run faster but spend half the race gibbering like Spud at a job interview.

Rather than a some sort of conspiracy, some people die young as they get cancer that is very hard to treat and some die young as they cane it and it catches up with them.

Prince 57 Heroin addict who died of an overdose
David Bowie 69 – Smoked like a trooper spent a large chunk of the 70s on cocaine, died of a cancer that has a poor prognosis.
Carrie Fisher 60 – Addicted to Cocaine and prescription medicines
Alan Rickman 69 – Died of a Cancer with a poor prognosis
George Michael 53 – Heroin and Crack Cocaine
Rick Parfit 68 – Snorted more Cocaine than Columbia could produce
Pete Burns 52 – who knows
Caroline Aherene 52 – Alcohol, drugs and smoked like someone from the east end of glasgow died of lung cancer
Victoria Wood 62 – cancer
David Gest 62 – again serious addiction issues
A. A. Gill 69

These below are all died around the average age

Terr Wogan 77 played golf
Paul Daniels 77 probably played golf
Ronnie Corbet 85 played golf
Muhamed Ali 77 athlete coverted to Islam probably never drank or smoked
Leonard Cohen 82 Buddhist
Robert Vaughn 83
Andrew Sachs 86

you’ll need few, it a took a ages to update but we were playing FIFA whilst it did it.

Despite spending 3 hours the other night setting up Microsoft accounts for the kids and installing Fifa still had loads of stress getting Forza and installed,
kids are happily playing minecraft now. I have no idea how a family who are computer literate could manage.

Ive said it on here before but id sooner see the millions pumped into essentially peoples hobbies, put into real grass roots sports training and facilities.

We are using the poorest peoples money to fund a global peeing up the wall competition whilst my kids school has no after school sports.

Cool love him in Bill and Ted

Watched number 1 wrapping presents on Wednesday Rickman was amazing and it was its first movie. Found number 2 in the loft yesterday going to watch it as soon as the kids are in bed i haven’t seen it since it came out i can only remember the ending.

No loving it this year. Fantastic school Christmas show on Wednesday followed by a torch light walk to a secret Christmas tree in Macc forest. A great afternoon in my local with kids watching Arthur Christmas yesgerday. Today Up to Buxton to see Santa in Poole’s Cavern (cost less than standard entry) and then a kids Carol concert in the main church in town. Polar express after tea and then Die Hard when the kids have gone to bed.

Two weeks off work including a week in the north Yorkshire moors after New Year whats not love.

I used to drink for Britain not dependant but massive binges most weekends and did so since I was 16. Strong beer, 3 bottles of wine or full bottles of spirits with the intention of getting hammered probably slowed down when I had kids but even then we still drank a lot at home. I didn’t help the wife and the in-laws are just as bad.

I’d have periods of fitness running marathons etc but i’d get injured of bored and slip into bad habit.

About two years ago I started get fit and managed really well until last christams when i put about 1 1/1 stone on in about 6 weeks after i developed a taste for strong IPA after a few trips to the US.

This year i’ve been almost teetotal and got out of the habit and I’m really happy except my drunken in-laws annoy me and i’m not going to a free Christmas Party tonight because i’ll get irritated by with everyone being pissed or I’ll join them as then regret it massively as it will cost me 2-3 days training and then we’ll be into Christmas.

I will drink but i’m more careful when i do it and must more restrained.

KidA/Amnesiac didn’t get it at the time love them now, National Anthem is my favourite Radiohead track.

The Wanted, absolutely love it every time it’s in TV I stay up and watch it. whats not to love about weaving assassins who select there targets by the loom of fate.

I did this earlier in the year, I’m a decentish runner, passable on a bike but I couldn’t swim a length of crawl without getting absolutely knackered.

I’d run the Manchester Marathon in April and fancied a break from running so accepted the challenge to do a sprint triathlon in a month. After a couple of sessions of flapping about I got two 1/2hour 1:1 lessons fixed my over kicking and crap breathing. Within a few weeks I could do the 400m in the pool and managed the pool tri no problem.

I went on to do a 1/2 ironman in July (1900m swim), I actually find open water much easier as the wetsuit compensates for my legs by lifting them up and mentally its easier (think pool = treadmill lake = trail run)

Watch out it can be a bit addictive. Training for the full now Ironman now, I’ve kept at the swimming and managed 1 1/2 hours in the pool this week but I’m now having real problems with my sinuses reacting to the chlorine.

I need to go run this afternoon, it will have to be on the road as i need a mid length recovery run after two hard fast runs and I’m WFH. Last Wednesday’s lunch run from work was this, i didn’t need much encouragement to do.

I started trail/ fell running as part of my marathon training at the beginning of the year. I love it, i’ve run three half-0 marathon plus length races recently, planing to run the three peaks fell race in 2017. Your right about the down to earth nature and inclusiveness of fell running. There’s definitely no trainer snobbery.

One plus point is that it’s great for checking out cheeky MTB trails.

With marshmallow you stick the card in and you configure it so its part of the memory I’ve got a 64gb card in mine so you end up with effectively 80gb internal memory. It’s not like in the older versions if Android

I think once you’ve smashed the screen you on a hinding to nothing. my wife and I broke ours had them replaced and they were broke again in 3 months. I replaced them with 16gb Moto G 3rd gens for about 150 quid. There a bit thicker than a high end phone but not too big 5 inch screen and waterproof. Battery life seems good too. Only thing I miss is NFC as id just started using Android pay.

I spend every afternoon in TCs with US I’m in one right now. It makes no difference where I sit. I sometimes do them from the pub they have good WiFi just don’t tell my boss or my wife.

This is the 89 tracks from 1989 they are playing. I was 16 at the time to me 89 was a great year

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Double posy

Some of the cheeky stuff can get a wee bit muddy at this time of year. Wait for nice frosty morning and head out early

My 7 years old got exactly the same feedback at parents evening, I found out his teacher had him sat on his own as he was incapable of sitting with other kids without chatting to them.

Amazingly his behaviour has improved significantly since the teacher has started a daily scorecard on his behaviour and the threat that if his behaviour doesn’t improve there’s no Xbox for Christmas.

Have to agree doddy riding around a trail centre’s isn’t really an adventure. They had a series with a hipster brother and sister touring across the US which was quiet good. But if you want proper adventure check out the guy below’s You tube videos they are awesome. The one where he’s bike packing the ice roads in Alska is mental.

This one is great he’s bike pack rafting a disused road in Canada.

https://youtu.be/LH7s_HPVNXg

Costco do a double pack of 270 lumen head torches come with 6 duracell AAAs and 2 rear leds. Got them for about £8 last winter they are about £10 now.

Almost disposable, don’t bother carrying spare batteries just the spare torch

Used them last winter for night fell running no problem. It has two low power LEDs that light the foreground which is good enough on a trail then the high power is good for navigating.

I gave up at New year was on a forest holiday and bought decaff coffee and cola, forgot I’d done it but felt like death for 2 days then realized why (i drank a lot of caffine).

I’ve stuck with it and only drink it before big running races, where it has a massive effect on me.

If you travel to Northern Europe, take some with you I take decaff Milicano, places like Sweden think your mental to drink decaff. It’s harder than giving up alcohol.

I’m much calmer I can sit down for longer at my desk.

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I’ve never recovered from getting off the steam train on wet Sunday afternoon with my wife and 4 month old. Went for a look around realised the train had gone bag down the hill. Cue the longest 3 hours of my life waiting for it too come back.

Went to back to visit the slate mines a few tears later they were good. Wouldnt stay there though.

I’ve consistently had a lung age 10 years older than I am since I first had it done 20 years ago.

One of my close friends who smokes like a chminey and is 10 years older than me has a lung age 10 years younger than me but i’m way fitter.

I think it must be a pretty crude measure of fitness, it doesn’t really take into account what your body does with the oxygen.

If you do the middlewood start at Marple and only go as far as Bollington as it gets a bit of a pain with a trailer after the viaduct.

What I dont get your fat and lazy if have an ebike. But your fine to make your road ride easier by drafting someone. I only ride on the road to get fitter I’d feel I’d cheated if i got towed along by someone.

I’m not fit by amy means but I have no problem leading with my mates as I’m the fittest in our group and again I see it as good training. But I wouldn’t be happy I’d a random stranger pulled in behind me when I’m riding alone as I often do. Ill happily admit I don’t have the group riding skills to feel comfortable leading a stranger. Similarly I don’t know the rules of kabaddi and don’t expect a random stranger to walk up to me in the street and off me a game and expect me to play along.

walking to pick up my kids after school wearing a smartish jacket and jeans probably a man bag, looking a bit Clarkson tbh. Corsa drives by kid shouts out the window “oy business ****”

i had non idea how to respond but to be fair he had a point.