What Are You Looking Forward To?

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I am waiting for me to be less fragile to partial shutdowns, so I can go out cycling again. I try not to cycle when I am fragile with partial shutdowns incase I get them while cycling and find myself in a position of struggling to get back home, especially as I have a steel hill on the way home.
This year I went out just the once and did about 5 or 6 miles. Hardly anything. Last year I went out about three times. I can't remember, but it wasn't many times. Yet when I am doing good I was out daily.
Occasionally... Maybe once a year I have to cycle when I have work done on my car and it is about 8 miles to get home and doing rhis when one has hardly been out at all, and may be weak with past shutdowns is very difficult... Knowing then one has another trip to do when the car is ready... It is ok when I am used to cycling... But go a year or two with hardly cyclingat all and it is not easy... And then be struggling with partial shutdowns on top is a "GRRR!" moment!
But I am greatful to the gentleman and his workers who do the jobs I can't tackle on my car and MOT it etc. Ooh. They have not seen Mitsi yet. One day I will have to introduce Mitsi to them!

But what I miss and am looking forward to is cycling. From being a lifelong cyclist... To be at the stage where if I go out on the bike my Mum can outdo me on her bike (Which is heavy and not as efficient as my sprightly machines) and she rarely cycles and is nearly 70, I am slightly concerned! If I don't get partial shutdowns I am fine, but with partial shutdowns she is leaving me behind! It's embarissing!

Who's Mitsi?

I'm also trying to get back on my bike and might just go off the deep end and sign up for a 100 km Audax ride which only has 447 m of climbing, so pretty flat. I'd really like to have the courage to cycle to Sicily or The Orkneys before winter but time is slipping by. I'm looking forward to getting some kind of action and not my current sense of limbo.

Mitsi. My little Mitsubishi.

I found that it is better to have a slightly more gradual approach. I couldn't launch into something like that these days. I used to do crazy things like 15 miles commuting daily and working a full time job only to launch myself into a long sunday ride as well... But when I have hardly been out at all the last few years and have been fragile on top of that I need to be careful. Many the time I have been lying in ditches wondering how I am going to ride back home! For some reason partial shutdowns and shutdowns can come quick while out on the bike. Either that or I don't notice the signs so easily while cycling and then I am clinging onto the bike... Oh. The last time I had this I tried to ride through a shutdown and I ended up lying along the crossbar... I pulled in and went to put my foot down, and my leg went all limp and I ended up on the floor with my bike. I just keeled over as if I had no leg there at all!

What kind of Mitsubishi?

Don't over do it MG, not on those mountain roads at this time of year.

Is a 2005 Mitsubishi Colt with a Mercades diesel engine. It is such a lovely lightweight car. If I park it and need to move it slightly I just put my foot out the door and movenit like that. My brother has one with a little 3 cylinder petrol engine in it.

I have only been out once this year on the bicycle. The bike was on a go slow on the way back up the hill this time. I had to take it easy as I snapped a spoke. I fixed it when I was back home.

It was rather amusing when I started shutting down on the bike before. I should have pulled in where I was. I just tried to go an extra couple of miles to reach a more secluded position. I could no longer hold my upper body up (I was down low to start with on the drop handlebars)... I have the old touring geometry so I have a level crossbar, but I found myself slouched down on the bike, and the bike started wobbling all over the place. I had lost the ability to balance it... It was the speed that was keeping me upright. I managed to pull in and went to put my leg down and bump. The bike and I were on the floor. My leg had turned limp due to shutting down so it would not hold my weight! I felt really embarissed! Haha! I also was telling myself off as I should not have tried to ride through it.
And this happened before I knew what I was experiencing were shutdowns.

Last edited by Mountain Goat on 26 Sep 2019, 7:42 am, edited 1 time in total.

Ooh, nice little car. I had a Nissan Sunny which was super light, I kind of miss that car. I knew someone who had a Mitsubishi Strarion, that was a nice machine.

Good luck with getting back on the bike MG.

Not going back on the bike yet until I feel up to it. Ideally I need a few weeks of feeling right so I am less likely to have issues. When I am having a good period of time where I am not so fragile to shutting down, if I do start to partly shut down, I just take a break there and then, wait to recover and then I am usually fine to carry on.
When like now, I am a fragile to shutdowns, if I get one shutdown, I only partly recover for the rest of the day and am vunerable to going back into shutdown mode after recovering... So trying to get back home in that state! If only I could register me and my bicycle with a car breakdown service to get me home! I would be a bit more confident to go out then and actuallybget myself some exercise. I find I can't run. Walking to me is like cycling... I am in the same position where I could end up crawling in a ditch for half annhour or more trying to recover. Why the wo mile walk back home from a bus stop when I am vunerable to shutting down just is not an option.
Strangely, I am fine while driving. I am so relaxed, that if I should ever feel the start of a shutdown coming, I can drive for miles before I feel I need to pull in as in the car partial shutdowns come on me very slowly. I have pulled over a long time before I feel my body needing to pull in. The only time I need to watch is in stationary traffic during a traffic jam. Thankfully traffic jams are rare and I avoid all the areas where I know they happen. I often drive 10 or 20 miles out my way to avoid a traffic jam. Ok. It takes longer but I avoid shutting down. My brother calls them my "Famous shortcuts" as they double the journey time!

Not particularly

Counseling is usually good

Right now I have only one friend

Of course, one miscommunication later, zero

My godmother promised to take me to Estonia for my next birthday, so I'm looking forward to that. I just hope she doesn't need to cancel; wouldn't be the first time.

I was in touch with a lady who lives in Estonia. She is nice. I have not been in touch with her for ages. She used to be on a Christian site I am on.

First contact with an intelligent extra-terrestrial alien species.

The next time I manage to get a decent night's sleep.

An interesting subject. You need to start a thread. (I may dissagree with certain concepts but it is an i teresting subject to explore and debate).

No thanks. It's been debated to death, with no evidence on either side.

First Contact would finally settle the debate, however, that's why I'm looking forward to it (if it happens in my lifetime).

Ah. I thought I had seen something before somewhere.

What form would you expect them to be in?

My imagination cannot conceive of what an alien would actually look like. A totally unknown quantity. It can take the form of virtually ANYTHING.

Most likely, I would say it would not be able to speak any of the Earth's languages---unless they somehow researched languages from their ship.