u/jonathing

I just found out that I've broken my foot (or 30.5 cm as I'm in the UK) which has put a bit of a dampener on my cyclocross season. There's a chance that I might get back riding for Christmas but in the meantime I'd like to not lose too much fitness. I'm speaking to the orthopod on Tuesday when I can find a more definite timeline for returning to training but I'm eager to hear what sort of things have people done in the same situation. Is one legged Zwifting a possibility? Has anyone successfully attached cleats to an immobilisation boot?

I've just signed up for the first race of the season in my area, which is a month away. I did a couple of races a couple of years ago but someone hit me with their car on my way home from work and broke both of my legs. Which put a bit of a dampener on my season, and on all of my motivation to ride since.

I've used my cross bike as a gravel bike a couple of times much more recently. I've also been trying to get my fitness back on Zwift as much as my physiotherapist has allowed. If you believe Zwift's numbers I'm almost back to the watts per kilo that I was at pre-injury but I'm inclined to take this with a generous pinch of salt.

What should my next 5 weeks look like in the run up to what is probably going to be a very dry race? I'm inclined to leave the gravel tyres on the bike and just practice sprints and attacks which is one area that my metal leg is struggling with.

I work in the city centre and my employer does not have any on-site car parking, they do (did) however have arrangements with a national car park owner for discounted parking for staff. This business has now gone bust and the car parks are under new management as of next week.

Our team is generally in a bad place morale wise and our WhatsApp groups are endlessly filled with moaning about management, rightly so as we are being grossly mistreated. However this has now been replaced with what can only be described as blind panic at the prospect of having to pay market rates to store their cars in the city centre for the day. There is even talk of resignations.

Overlooking the fact that there is a railway station on a busy commuter line not a 10 minute walk from the building and a major main-line station a further 10 minutes through town. Subsidised public transport was removed as an employee benefit several years ago and there was minimal mention of it amongst staff. At least there's still the cycle to work scheme, for now, not that it'll get any of them out of their cars.

I've been having a weird issue on and off for a little while now.

I have a fenix 7 pro and an edge 1030 plus and occasionally after logging a ride I get no recovery time on my watch. Today for example I logged an hour's ride with an intensity factor of 0.92, a training stress score of 98.3 and an exercise load of 300. However my watch and the connect app say that I'm fully recovered and good to go, I do not feel fully recovered and good to go. What am i doing wrong in my recording not to get a recovery time from my race?

I'm currently sitting waiting for some work to come to me in a satellite department. I thought that while I was waiting I would check up on some of the QA procedures here. The log is an excel file and some other documentation is a word file, both of these live on sharepoint so they can be accessed from any part of the department.

I've just had to log in 4 times, get two different codes sent to my personal phone and wait 'One Moment' several times over, just to do a 30 second tick-y box job. I get it that some people make computers their entire career but I imagine that for the rest of us IT is just a tool to use to actually achieve something else. In that context why am I spending more time logging in over and over than doing the actual job? One would not expect to log in to a spanner, and then periodically phone the spanner department because it's kicked you off for no discernable reason and is refusing to do anything.

No wonder we feel like we're working for the computer, rather than the computer working for us.

After posting a week or so ago about not feeling safe on the road after a collision I'm now thinking that I need a goal that's more than "just get back out there". Before my injuries my head was being turned by ultra-style riding. LEJOG or London Edinburgh London are probably beyond me for the foreseeable future but I reckon if I can do Barmouth to Yarmouth in 3 days I can sleep at home one night and at my mum's house the other night. My local club rides to Aberdovey each year, so I already have that portion of the route sorted.

How have other people started preparing for multi-day trips? Were I at peak fitness/foolishness I'd have just set a date and cracked on with it but coming back from injury I should probably actually prepare in some sort of meaningful way. I've been training on Zwift prior to getting back outside but the issue I've encountered with long efforts is the tedium that sets in after more than about 4 hours.

After posting a week or so ago about not feeling safe on the road after a collision I'm now thinking that I need a goal that's more than "just get back out there". Before my injuries my head was being turned by ultra-style riding. LEJOG or London Edinburgh London are probably beyond me for the foreseeable future but I reckon if I can do Barmouth to Yarmouth in 3 days I can sleep at home one night and at my mum's house the other night. My local club rides to Aberdovey each year, so I already have that portion of the route sorted.

How have other people started preparing for multi-day trips? Were I at peak fitness/foolishness I'd have just set a date and cracked on with it but coming back from injury I should probably actually prepare in some sort of meaningful way. I've been training on Zwift prior to getting back outside but the issue I've encountered with long efforts is the tedium that sets in after more than about 4 hours.

This is going to sound like a strange request. I've been commuting almost daily for 17ish years but over the last six years I've been hit by motorists three times. One guy cut the corner at a T-juncton at which I was waiting and hit me, then a guy turned across me into a side road and took me out. Most recently a guy just pulled onto the wrong side on the road and hit me head-on last year.

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This last one has messed me up the most, he broke both of my legs, messed up my chest and shoulder and broke my whole sense of self. I've been having flashbacks and panic attacks when I try to ride on the road ever since but as summer looms I'm missing it more than ever.

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In all of these cases I was riding assertively, not hugging the curb. Wearing a white helmet and either a bright jacket or reflective gilet. I had a front light which was bright enough to ride unlit lanes with, with a flashing mode that I use for daytime.

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Three times in a short amount of time makes me think that I'm doing something wrong but I don't know what it is. My road positioning hasn't changed, I'm not using excessive speed and I don't think I'm taking more risks in traffic. I don't think that the solution is more gadgets, the Garmin radar is for when people try to rear end you (and not in a fun way) and brighter lights are just going to dazzle people. Short of a top tube mounted havoc launcher I'm not really sure what the solution is to feel safe back out on the road.

During the recent half term heatwave we found ourselves in various corner shops looking for ice cream. Even after more than ten years vegan I'm still boggled that places stock the dairy version of an ice cream that comes in a vegan version. Shop keepers know that non-vegans can eat the vegan version of something but vegans aren't going to eat the dairy version right?

I've seen people post here and other places questioning whether the brake pads they bought on Amazon should last more than one ride or if they need to change their chain more than once a year.

I've recently had a pair of shoes die after 3000 km, which the manufacturer seems to think is reasonable and won't cover them as part of the warranty. On the other hand I'm still wearing shorts that are older than some of my colleagues (albeit I'm only wearing them on the turbo now).