mac11irl
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and it looks like nasty asbestos roofs on the sheds 😬 any closer pgotos of the rail stuff? i xan see rail ends so looks like some sort of very shallow depth sleeper/bearer arrangement possi ly from a bridge deck or that they had an elevated loading/unloading bay there previously. probably for gather all the chicken ****e for transportation to a fertiliser plant or for unloading chicken feed by the wagon load?
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its hard to hold a phone camera steady after a hard uphill cycle in the dark.. an overcast, juuuuuussst pre dawn, zoomed out to get the extents, of the Clonmel Borough area in its street lit state dawn starting to the East
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been a few days! ive been running, same route, and same general time frames. still tryin to work on the heel stoke avoidance and some stuff from that aussie running article. today was a cycle day as its the weekend. up the big hill and w3st to the woods. was a decent time and enjoying it, until i was on the top loop of the woods and i met a man with his dog, all in camo gear, carrying a rifle... who informed ne there was himself and afew other lads out deer hunting.. as i didnt fancy having a high velocity .308 entry and exit hole in my brain box, i turned back to the main trail and baled out. annoying though as he said they had all the season signage up at the entrances.... nothing on the east approach i go in, and i didnt see anything out on the main routes in either... the spanners.
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its always been said that the black magic was an extra 10bhp. so these graphs prove that theory
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yeah, i get ya. i felt the same during the experiment the other day avoiding heel strike. but id say the reat of my body was very much wrong. you use way calf running the "right" so need to watch that too, they get goddam sore after a while!
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dont think about your feet... while trying to change your running texhnique inparticular how your feet land on the graphics/text yeah, i could read it fine on my phone, but the text scolling up over the graphic as it animates was slightly annoying. like someone had mis-set the animation timg on the scroll..
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well they arent screaming at me but im very very aware of my lower legs all day today....
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i am really sorry to hear about your father passing away Edwards 😔 i hope you can get through the grief stages. brisky is nice in the some what anonymity if you need to offload anything you just want to lash out into the ether. on the shifter, yup, the plan is replace it as sram dont do parts for it going by a google search and long term if the derailleur starts acting the gowl the whole setup will be upgraded to a shimano set up. When i get the new one on, ll strip the old one and post up photos of the internals so anyone else who has the same problem will know whats broked and that changing is the easiest option.
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so it healed itself i to a super tendon?
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update.... i got a repy from the original retailer, the warranty is non transferable so i would need to get the first owner to lodge the claim, send him the broken shifter to send to them and then recerse it for getting it back etc etc... So I ordered a new sx shifter off decathlon today for €29 along with some light running beenies, and extra gloves. for a pretty cheap bit its worth the effort of gettin in touch with another lad at the otger end of the country and all the postage costs would outweigh the value of the part. at least then if the shifter sharts itself again, ill be going through decathlon myself, or.. upgrading to a shimano set up....
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up and out in the dark again... 6k by the river with a teeny sliver of a moon on its hunkers as the sun was getting near the horizon. i did try one thing today... i consciously made a massive effort for the last 2k to avoid heel strike running. balls of toes only, like sprinting in slow motion... and bloody torture on the calves! im guessing ill be crying in the morning when the doms set in after that. it feels weird too, like it should be faster but also felt like everytime my foot hit the ground i was stopping my forward momentum a little bit... its odd. will try again next day, rest tomorrow... extra 45min sleep 😉
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Moonlit riverside 6k just completed in over 34mins. Given the sun hasnt even gotten near the horizon it is chilly these mornings. but that doesnt slow me down, i think thats just my own brain not wanting to strain anything or do my knee, which did say hello after 5k. tad annoying...
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@olduns i have a feeling i'll heading into the woods again rather than up the peaks too... the mud and rain yesterday made the climb near impossible... no traction anywhere
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so i rewarded my on foot efforts during the week with an early start, in the dark, at 630am, on the bike and up the hills weather was awful... head wind gales blowing up the trails over the peaks. ground was soft, no traction, rain, fecking cold... but it was still fun coming back down...
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well its been a running week... mon was a grand 7k by the river with no knee pain. Wednesday i went west, and around a couple of street blocks to make up a 6.5k. again it was alright, no knee pain. yesterday's run was back to riverside route and a 6.5k at ebd of which my knee just said "hello, dont forget me..." happy with how irs holding up though
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rare one, but i think justified... recent works completed on one of our bridges, a full rope accessed vegetation removal, major instream scour protection works carried out (in a special area of conservation... thank god i wasnt involved in that bit) and also a deep ckean and repointing of mortar joints. 150 ish yrs old, its looking brand new other than the handrails...
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#classic or #PFL base model (i cant find the letters... glx maybe?)
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you keep getting sunsets, i keep getting sunrises yesterday morning from the top of long hill, after pedalling on up there.
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i havnt read the entire thread but.... there is a very straight forward pattern to Windows OS releases - they alterante quite evenly from good to ****e and have done right back to 3.11 10 is a decent and pretty stable environment, i think, 7 is also still pretty good on my old laptop. 8 was brutal. so, on the basis of existing stats - wait for 12, or whatever they decide to call it.
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up and out this morning, and decided to do the twin peaks again. a week off the bike, even with the running i was feeling it up the hills! also, the definite change in weather to being generally more damp, the ground is softer, so alot heavier to pedal up as well. following this up with 2 1/2hrs of shovelling and barrowing... i am gonna feel it in the morning. . but in a good way
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got another 6k in on Tuesday morning, out and back earlier so less pressure on the pre work other stuff... little reminder niggle in the knee again, but other than that it was a good run. slower yhan monday, but i was bit more tired and legs were achy, the 24hr doms were setting in yesterday was a rest day, today should have been a trip out, but i slept crap and spent an hr half asleep on jr's floor again.. ill run tomorrow morning before going on site, then a decent cycle Saturday morning 🤞
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weird night.. spud sr arrived at 525am needing the alarm turned off to get a drink... then i got up at 610, and jr cried at 615.. managed to get out and away at 632am, for a RUN! i got a steady 6k run in, by the river on the flat, and was back to do all the pre work/school/childminder arriving stuff done... just about! felt good, got a gentle reminder in my knee to not pysh it too hard after about 4km, but i tried to focus on getting more toe spring in my stride and it never got any worse than being "aware of my knee"... not too bad, not exactly fast either
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