CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
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It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
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Piled on the pounds? You're a victim of 'snowbesity'
IT PLAYED havoc with the nation's road and rail network and plunged Christmas shopping plans into turmoil, now the big freeze has claimed another victim - Scotland's waistlines.
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http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Piled-on-the-pounds-You39re.6675703.jp
Well I avoided weight gain by being thoroughly ill on the most calorie-consuming of days and eating only 7 jaffa cakes over Christmas day and Boxing Day. But I do feel thoroughly unfit, we were talking in the Diggers about how if you cycle say 60 miles a week commuting then that sets your internal odometer at -60. So you have to cycle over 60 miles to feel like you've registered any cycling. Since late-Novemeber I've still cycle commuted 95% of the time but feel like I've done negative exercise as a result as there's not really been an opportunity to do anything else apart from the odd adventurous slither here and there.
'tis bad, I've had to order a turbo trainer :-o
that's cheating!
I've been very close to breaking out the turbo, luckily the roady broke a spoke a few weeks ago and i've not had it fixed. Mtb is even more miserable on the turbo than the road bike.
I have been pricing up either buying a trainer or taking my sister's off her hands, for when both road surfaces and child conspire to prevent anything other than the daily commute and visiting my parents conspires against reducing food intake on the absence of proper exercise.
You need a fan because you sweat like the peeg.
I used to stick a phone book under the front wheel but SJS actually sell a special thing to go there.
It's borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring.
I have had to take to running about the place. Bizarrely, if I could clear my long skinny garage of bikes I would like a rowing machine but I imagine they are very dear. My Hi-viz helly hanssen [not sure how that works as it is black but with yellow zig zags] came today only two days behind wee folds preferential dispatch. I will use the jokes in future [or will this cause delays?] I pick up the soft shell today so apparently all my sweat will wick away and I will be dry inside and out. I remain skeptical but as all the money is coming off due to sale and competition win, it is worth a punt.
Two aerials meet on a roof, fall in love and get married. Apparently the ceremony was rubbish but the reception was brilliant.
What's brown and sticky?
What's brown and sticky?
Dunno, but my frame was covered in it last week.
kaputnik - lucky you had that finish line polish then
"It's borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring"
Can't you harness your energy to run a small telly??
A brown stick.
Yes, the I think the Science Museum in London has one connected to a TV. Interestingly my mag trainer has to plug in to the mains.
"Obese children get personal trainers in hope gym'll fix it"
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Obese-children-get-personal-trainers.6676197.jp
"You need a fan because you sweat like the peeg.
I used to stick a phone book under the front wheel but SJS actually sell a special thing to go there.
It's borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring. "
Unfortunately I had a heat stress a year or so back and now "sweat like the peeeg" is situation normal :-(
You just learn to deal with it mind you (and take on MASSIVE amounts of fluids lol).
Boring is the same for most gym type stuff, I'll just have to listen to the radio, zone out or meditate. Or as suggested put a telly in the garage :-0
If motivation wavers I'll imagine some of the big hills I'm due to encounter in the summer!!
I'd try to say something funny but two hour turbo sessions have left me brain dead. It does keep the weight down though.
"Two aerials meet on a roof, fall in love and get married. Apparently the ceremony was rubbish but the reception was brilliant."
The version I heard had Rod Hull in it.
What about a spinning class? It must be more interesting. I dont really do them as I see indoor cycling as Entirely Pointless and the antithesis of Rules 9 and 5, but Ive been known to to the odd free-weight class and having a bunch of other people with you, some music you hate and someone shouting encouragement really takes your mind off it.
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