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I'd hoped to get at least one more ride in before the end of the year,
but on the 27th, the day I'd scheduled a ride, my wife woke up with a terrible case of influenza. She had a terrible dry cough, a high
temperature, nausea, and was weakened to the point of not being able
to walk. I rushed her to the hospital and there she and I sat until
yesterday afternoon when she'd recovered enough to come home.
We'd spent Christmas day at relatives home, and come to find out,
almost everyone at that get together was now suffering the flu. Even
though I'm ten years older than my wife, and at 80 years old, most
likely more vulnerable to such things, I seem to have escaped the
nasty thing.
The flu going around this year seems to be particularly bad, so
everyone beware.
So now, with rain predicted for today and tomorrow, my total ride data
for 2024 will close out at only 43 rides and 2103 miles.
--
C'est bon
Soloman
On 12/30/2024 2:17 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
I'd hoped to get at least one more ride in before the end of the year,
but on the 27th, the day I'd scheduled a ride, my wife woke up with a
terrible case of influenza. She had a terrible dry cough, a high
temperature, nausea, and was weakened to the point of not being able
to walk. I rushed her to the hospital and there she and I sat until
yesterday afternoon when she'd recovered enough to come home.
We'd spent Christmas day at relatives home, and come to find out,
almost everyone at that get together was now suffering the flu. Even
though I'm ten years older than my wife, and at 80 years old, most
likely more vulnerable to such things, I seem to have escaped the
nasty thing.
The flu going around this year seems to be particularly bad, so
everyone beware.
So now, with rain predicted for today and tomorrow, my total ride data
for 2024 will close out at only 43 rides and 2103 miles.
--
C'est bon
Soloman
I skipped a couple of days for icy roads in a lingering
sleet but had a reasonably nice ride this morning. Would
have been better without the damp wind.
On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 07:44:44 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
On 12/30/2024 2:17 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
I'd hoped to get at least one more ride in before the end of the year,
but on the 27th, the day I'd scheduled a ride, my wife woke up with a
terrible case of influenza. She had a terrible dry cough, a high
temperature, nausea, and was weakened to the point of not being able
to walk. I rushed her to the hospital and there she and I sat until
yesterday afternoon when she'd recovered enough to come home.
We'd spent Christmas day at relatives home, and come to find out,
almost everyone at that get together was now suffering the flu. Even
though I'm ten years older than my wife, and at 80 years old, most
likely more vulnerable to such things, I seem to have escaped the
nasty thing.
The flu going around this year seems to be particularly bad, so
everyone beware.
So now, with rain predicted for today and tomorrow, my total ride data
for 2024 will close out at only 43 rides and 2103 miles.
--
C'est bon
Soloman
I skipped a couple of days for icy roads in a lingering
sleet but had a reasonably nice ride this morning. Would
have been better without the damp wind.
I know it would be better for me physically to go more often on
shorter rides, but that wouldn't satisfy my emotional requirements. I dislike riding in my suburban neighborhood with short spans between
stop signs. I want long uninterrupted stretches with as few stops and
as few distractions as possible, so for me it's a five mile trip in
the truck to the bike trail, and nowdays, a minimum of three days to
recover.
I'll also happily ride on a rainy day when the temperature is in the
80s or 90s, but not in the 60s or 70s.
--
C'est bon
Soloman
Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 07:44:44 -0600, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
On 12/30/2024 2:17 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
I'd hoped to get at least one more ride in before the end of the year, >>>> but on the 27th, the day I'd scheduled a ride, my wife woke up with a
terrible case of influenza. She had a terrible dry cough, a high
temperature, nausea, and was weakened to the point of not being able
to walk. I rushed her to the hospital and there she and I sat until
yesterday afternoon when she'd recovered enough to come home.
We'd spent Christmas day at relatives home, and come to find out,
almost everyone at that get together was now suffering the flu. Even
though I'm ten years older than my wife, and at 80 years old, most
likely more vulnerable to such things, I seem to have escaped the
nasty thing.
The flu going around this year seems to be particularly bad, so
everyone beware.
So now, with rain predicted for today and tomorrow, my total ride data >>>> for 2024 will close out at only 43 rides and 2103 miles.
--
C'est bon
Soloman
I skipped a couple of days for icy roads in a lingering
sleet but had a reasonably nice ride this morning. Would
have been better without the damp wind.
I know it would be better for me physically to go more often on
shorter rides, but that wouldn't satisfy my emotional requirements. I
dislike riding in my suburban neighborhood with short spans between
stop signs. I want long uninterrupted stretches with as few stops and
as few distractions as possible, so for me it's a five mile trip in
the truck to the bike trail, and nowdays, a minimum of three days to
recover.
I can see that someone might find that annoying, MTB for me is that in that >it needs a car/train to get it somewhere.
Though I find most of the rail trails fairly busy places with runners/dog >walkers and so on plus bikes, even in areas such as wales which are fairly >unpopulated areas.
So IÆm more likely to ride other areas if I want to just ride and donÆt
want to people!
I'll also happily ride on a rainy day when the temperature is in the
80s or 90s, but not in the 60s or 70s.
--
C'est bon
Soloman
In further harrumph found a sidewall slash and slight bulge on the commute >tire so thatÆs a gona! Which I discovered after a puncture yesterday on way >to work, and IÆd put the tire on reverse which on those makes no difference >but annoyed me so I changed it around today but discovered the slash,
almost certainly due to a nail probably not the same as one that punctured.
But somewhat annoying as the tire only had a 2k or so on it, they should do >normally last 8k ish.
Roger Merriman
On 12/30/2024 2:17 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
I'd hoped to get at least one more ride in before the end of the year,
but on the 27th, the day I'd scheduled a ride, my wife woke up with a
terrible case of influenza. She had a terrible dry cough, a high
temperature, nausea, and was weakened to the point of not being able
to walk. I rushed her to the hospital and there she and I sat until
yesterday afternoon when she'd recovered enough to come home.
We'd spent Christmas day at relatives home, and come to find out,
almost everyone at that get together was now suffering the flu. Even
though I'm ten years older than my wife, and at 80 years old, most
likely more vulnerable to such things, I seem to have escaped the
nasty thing.
The flu going around this year seems to be particularly bad, so
everyone beware.
So now, with rain predicted for today and tomorrow, my total ride data
for 2024 will close out at only 43 rides and 2103 miles.
--
C'est bon
Soloman
I skipped a couple of days for icy roads in a lingering sleet but had a reasonably nice ride this morning. Would have been better without the
damp wind.
On 12/30/2024 7:44 AM, AMuzi wrote:
On 12/30/2024 2:17 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
I'd hoped to get at least one more ride in before the end of the year,
but on the 27th, the day I'd scheduled a ride, my wife woke up with a
terrible case of influenza. She had a terrible dry cough, a high
temperature, nausea, and was weakened to the point of not being able
to walk. I rushed her to the hospital and there she and I sat until
yesterday afternoon when she'd recovered enough to come home.
We'd spent Christmas day at relatives home, and come to find out,
almost everyone at that get together was now suffering the flu. Even
though I'm ten years older than my wife, and at 80 years old, most
likely more vulnerable to such things, I seem to have escaped the
nasty thing.
The flu going around this year seems to be particularly bad, so
everyone beware.
So now, with rain predicted for today and tomorrow, my total ride data
for 2024 will close out at only 43 rides and 2103 miles.
--
C'est bon
Soloman
I skipped a couple of days for icy roads in a lingering sleet but had a
reasonably nice ride this morning. Would have been better without the
damp wind.
I have had a running nose and a bit of upper respiratory thing going on
for now almost 4 weeks. No temperature and not really feeling bad at
all but stuff all above throat. No chest congestion or sore throat so I
don't know.
However the past week except for some rainy days been ok. I rode today
41 miler temp at 38 but no wind at all. I managed on Saturday to churn
out a 54 mile temp ride my fastest and longest since the gravel crash in
May with broken collarbone and metacarpals and trochanter. Outside miles
of course down but I was able to ride inside pretty decent this year.
The flu is bad probably worse than COVID