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by honesty
26 Oct 2023, 4:12pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Inguinal hernia - choices?
Replies: 17
Views: 7409

Re: Inguinal hernia - choices?

Mine happened over night, after a gym session. Supposedly 1 in 3 men will get this type of hernia.

I couldn’t do weights, cycle for a long distance, do yoga, or anything that required core work really. I still ate like I was exercising though. Which wasn’t the best idea…

Key hole is meant to be a faster recovery, which is why I went for it.
by honesty
26 Oct 2023, 3:53pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Inguinal hernia - choices?
Replies: 17
Views: 7409

Re: Inguinal hernia - choices?

I had an inguinal hernia 3 ish years ago. I’m 46 now. Good shout going private as I waited almost 2 years to have the repair on the NHS. Go key hole. I was back at exercise very quickly ( with some other complications now, but that’s a different story). The first week was out but was back to power lifting within 8 weeks (I left it a lot longer than when I actually felt better as I didn’t want to blow out the repair squatting….) and I felt the repair site wounds were comparatively very small.
by honesty
8 Aug 2023, 6:26pm
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Kirkpatrick C2C
Replies: 24
Views: 3981

Re: Kirkpatrick C2C

I was looking at this earlier today. Eyemouth seams easy to get to (train to Berwick), but for me easiest way to Stranraer is flight to Belfast and then catch the ferry…
by honesty
19 Jul 2023, 12:02pm
Forum: Cycle Camping sub-forum
Topic: Is storing your bike in your tent safer than locking it nearby when camping..?
Replies: 43
Views: 8330

Re: Is storing your bike in your tent safer than locking it nearby when camping..?

Check your insurance cover.

Whilst in your tent may feel safer it may not actually be covered. My insurance for example it wouldn’t be covered as I’m required to lock my bike to an immovable object.
by honesty
17 Apr 2023, 7:43pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: Nut Zero
Replies: 461
Views: 25834

Re: Nut Zero

And I thought this was going to be a discussion about problems “down there”….
by honesty
17 Apr 2023, 10:39am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: farthest crow flies from sea
Replies: 22
Views: 1282

Re: farthest crow flies from sea

853 wrote: 16 Apr 2023, 1:46pm I know Church Flatts farm, as I used to work in Burton upon Trent.

I also know Coton in the Elms, and have cycled through it. I would refer to it as a village rather than a town, as it doesn't have a supermarket or any appreciable amount of employment. As the question was 'town' I'd say Overseal to the east, as it has more facilities and resembles a town more.
Overseal is a village :wink:

Having grown up in the area, and went to school in Ashby, we were always told Ashby de la Zouch was the town furthest from the sea… I’m guessing that was just local pride rather than actual truth though!
by honesty
15 Apr 2023, 11:17am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Devon C2C Path - Which way?
Replies: 14
Views: 1321

Re: Devon C2C Path - Which way?

I’ve done it a few time both ways. I actually prefer south to north. It just seems to fit better. I’d you get the train down to Plymouth from Exeter that works, or we’ve been dropped off in Sainsbury’s car park before and that works a bit better as you miss the fiddly bit cycling out of Plymouth. I’ve got a write up on my website if you’re interested.

I’ve also done a route from Taunton over Dartmoor through Mortonhampstead and Postbridge to Yelverton, Devon C2C route to Barnstaple, then West Country Way route to Taunton. It was a lovely route but a lot of climbing.
by honesty
19 Mar 2023, 2:08pm
Forum: On the road
Topic: Exeter
Replies: 12
Views: 1584

Re: Exeter

I’m in Taunton, and the in laws live in Exminster so I’ve cycled round it many times.

From countess wear, there’s a cycle path along the estuary all the way to Dawlish. Lovely ride. You can head up to Haldon forest from there.

As someone has said though, head north. There’s a bike path the length of Rydon lane, then past Pinhoe and out through Broadclyst and up. There’s loads of country lanes. Miles and miles. Up onto the Blackdowns, over to Tiverton, etc.

I should say, head to Culmstock. The coffee shop in the local shop is just brilliant.
by honesty
18 Mar 2023, 6:32am
Forum: Family Cycling
Topic: Child on tandem for 40 miles
Replies: 32
Views: 7953

Re: Child on tandem for 40 miles

Circe morpheus tandem has a freewheel on the secondary seat.
by honesty
10 Mar 2023, 8:18pm
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: An Illegal Bill to Stop Immigrants becoming Slaves
Replies: 233
Views: 8656

Re: An Illegal Bill to Stop Immigrants becoming Slaves

ossie wrote: 10 Mar 2023, 8:09pm
roubaixtuesday wrote: 10 Mar 2023, 10:42am For the population density afficionados here, it's darkly comic that Rwanda has a higher population density than the UK.

It's almost as though population density isn't the real concern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c ... on_density
I find travel broadens the mind. If you were to travel around the UK you wouldn't argue against the fact that the UK is quite overcrowded . In short public services, the NHS, schools, prisons, the environment, roads and railways simply cannot keep up.
Glad you support immigrants. Thank you.

Obviously you know that it was proven that immigrants provided 10% more to the economy than they took out. Thus helping with any financial deficit.

It’s nice of you to stand up and so proudly state your support based on economic reasoning…
by honesty
3 Jan 2023, 11:34pm
Forum: Health and fitness
Topic: Weight training
Replies: 29
Views: 2731

Re: Weight trainin

I do weight training. I rather enjoy it. I think it’s important to know the differences between weight training goals and what you do to obtain them though. Lower weight (relatively), higher rep work, and lifts that isolate specific muscles, aimed at getting sarcoplasmic hypertrophy are (and I’m massively generalising here I know) what body builders look for. Lower rep, higher weight, compound lifts, aiming for myofibrillar hypertrophy are generally what power lifters do (again massive generalisation).

In my view doing compound lifts, squats and deadlifts are an absolute must, at low repetition with heavy weights is massively beneficial. Evidence from scientific and sports studies backs this up. I can do a full session in just over an hour, 3 times a week, so no long hours in the gym. I also find keeping my lifts in the strength rep end of the scale means it doesn’t impact my cycling and vice versa if I end up doing them too closely to one another. The guardian article references 2 guys right at the end who are worth following up on if you want more info on this stuff or look for Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe.
by honesty
20 Dec 2022, 11:03am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Camping / touring Food
Replies: 47
Views: 2741

Re: Camping / touring Food

In the UK I’ve never needed to carry main meal food as you can usually find a coop or equivalent somewhere along the way. I get fresh pasta/ravioli generally then so it cooks easily on a camping stove. Always have porridge oats and raisins for breakfast though. Again I get milk at the coop and decant it into a thermos to keep it cold.

I do carry emergency food usually along the lines of dried pasta, tin of tuna, tin of sweetcorn but never needed to dip into it…
by honesty
13 Nov 2022, 8:35pm
Forum: Lands End to John O'Groats
Topic: LEJOG 2023 (via Lizard Point & Dunnet Head) final route help..
Replies: 29
Views: 8230

Re: LEJOG 2023 (via Lizard Point & Dunnet Head) final route help..

If you’re doing outside of rush hour, and a bigger group it’s ok. But it’s a busy nasty road and I prefer the back lanes for a quieter more relaxing ride.
by honesty
13 Nov 2022, 8:05pm
Forum: Lands End to John O'Groats
Topic: LEJOG 2023 (via Lizard Point & Dunnet Head) final route help..
Replies: 29
Views: 8230

Re: LEJOG 2023 (via Lizard Point & Dunnet Head) final route help..

turborat wrote: 13 Nov 2022, 6:01pm
Mick F wrote: 13 Nov 2022, 8:04am Day Three.
Stay on the A38 but go through Wellington town centre. Stay on the A38 through Taunton to Bridgwater. Continue on it right up to Gloucester. Flat and easy, then work you way through to Leominster.
So is this part of the A38 ok to ride in a group or would back roads work better?

Thanks
I live in Taunton, and I don’t ride the A38.
by honesty
12 Nov 2022, 9:30pm
Forum: Lands End to John O'Groats
Topic: LEJOG 2023 (via Lizard Point & Dunnet Head) final route help..
Replies: 29
Views: 8230

Re: LEJOG 2023 (via Lizard Point & Dunnet Head) final route help..

Your route out of Taunton is up one of the steepest hills in the area. Nice ride when I want climbing but not something I’d choose if I wanted to get out easily.

From Taunton I would head out to the east, either by the canal path or through Ruishton. Get to Creech st Michael. Then go Ham, Knapp, North Curry, Burrow Bridge, Othery. Follow the a road north, then cut across the A39 to Shapwick. Go to Wedmore than Cheddar. Pick up the Strawberry line all the way to Yatton and then on back lanes to Clevedon. Pick up the Avon cycleway along the quiet lane under the motorway. This will take you all the way to the Avon bridge.

The day before. Honestly I wouldn’t bother going to Tiverton. From Thorverton go across under Silverton and on to the B3181. Don’t go through Brandnich but go almost to Killerton. Follow the b road up through Cullumpton and Willand. Go to Uffculme then Nicholashayne then Wellington. From Wellington the a38 is a bit of a pig. Go Nynehead, Bradford on Tone, Hele then into Taunton.