Tour of Sufferlandria 2014

cougie

Jeez- what crappy timing - you could have bunked off the ToS if it had been a bit earlier ! How did you do it ?

Mind you its been so windy and crappy round here that most of my rides have been indoors and its a bit easier to stay on the bike in there.

Heal well !

markp80

Anyone heard if they got lucky in the prize draw? Just wondered if we'd had any luck among the bikeradar posters!

I got back on the turbo tonight for the first time since the tour ended - so I had a full week off - and felt surprisingly good. I did Tunnabora which I've found to be a good workout in the past. I think it may be time for an FTP test.

Cheers,
MarkP

napoleond

Yeah I won the garmin vectors

markp80

NapoleonD wrote:

Yeah I won the garmin vectors

Now if we're not going to take this seriously.....

michaelede

DW300 sorry to hear about your off, shitty luck.

Bike's off being fixed by the insurer and sort of missing doing the vids, going to have been at least a fortnight before get back on the bike/trainer Couldn't decide what to do and then the sufferfest minions sent me a discount off of a training plan so thought that I would give that a go next. Haven't completed a structured plan before.

Do they do other events during the year?

dw300

michaelede wrote:

DW300 sorry to hear about your off, sh!tty luck.

Bike's off being fixed by the insurer and sort of missing doing the vids, going to have been at least a fortnight before get back on the bike/trainer Couldn't decide what to do and then the sufferfest minions sent me a discount off of a training plan so thought that I would give that a go next. Haven't completed a structured plan before.

Do they do other events during the year?

Cheers Mike. Sounds like a good plan, if youve never done one before youll almost certainly see a good improvement.

bernithebiker

dw300 wrote:

bernithebiker wrote:

dw300 wrote:

They X-rayed and gave me a sling and some co-codamol and an appt with the fracture clinic in 3 weeks time.

Is it just me or is 3 weeks quite a long time? Surely the bones will have started to set/knit by then?!

I've no idea, i'm not medically trained and I've never broken anything that ive had to go to hospital for before. :?:

I'm no doctor, but I would push to see someone before that if you can.

mamba80

DW, if you contact your fracture clinic via hospital, you should be able to self refer, I have done this before with a collar bone but tbh if it is a straight fwd break, then unless you pay, they ll treat it with a sling or fig 8 bandage and pain killers.
apparently NSAIDS (Neurophen etc) slow down new bone growth.

gllewellyn

MarkP80 wrote:

Anyone heard if they got lucky in the prize draw? Just wondered if we'd had any luck among the bikeradar posters!

I did! I won the Quadlock Smartphone Bike Mount which I'm pretty chuffed about!
Haven't been on the turbo since finishing though thanks to a very bad chest cough - desperately trying to shift it so I can get back to training...

Not as bad as DW's bad luck though - heal up soon!

markp80

gllewellyn wrote:

MarkP80 wrote:

Anyone heard if they got lucky in the prize draw? Just wondered if we'd had any luck among the bikeradar posters!

I did! I won the Quadlock Smartphone Bike Mount which I'm pretty chuffed about!

- At last, a winner!

markp80

michaelede wrote:

Do they do other events during the year?

There was the 8 Days of California last year which I failed to complete :oops:
i can't remember when it was though, presumably it coincided with the Tour of California? That was it though.