Velo Vol 

Good morning @DougRNS.

You seem still mad that I don't like 60s music, so I found some songs I like:

Velo Vol 

You should have taken the guided bicycle tour.
Oh.

RIP bones.

datlas 

indyfabz

The thought of someone cutting into my eyes makes me a tad nervous.

MoAlpha

Velo Vol 

Strava?

LAJ

Good version....

rpenmanparker 

Easy solution: don't think about it.

2manybikes

I believe Vitamin D is received from sunlight. Go outside. Any addiction thread doctors please correct me If I'm wrong.
Hope you're doing OK.
It's finally cool enough to take Bailey out in the trike today.

BillyD

BillyD

Oh no, not that!

BillyD

Same here, freaks me the %#@* out. My eyes are the most precious thing on my body.

Yeah I realize it's routine stuff now days, a good surgeon can knock out 20 before lunch and all. But still ......

WhyFi

Good morning, @Velo Vol. 39° for the morning ride - you would have loved it.

WhyFi

Also, I see that @Dan333SP is in my friend's neck of the woods. You should go down to the farmer's market and buy some of her bread (if it's not already sold out). It's good.

badger1

My kind of '60s music:

Ramona_W

I will have to double-check but we know LoP didn't and her searches showed up for the first time yesterday but she has been complaining about bike ads for over a year. Weird...

Ramona_W

I tried to muster some sad feelings when Stanton got hit in the head with the ball thrown by that fan. Tried and failed. And I know a lot of it is sour grapes. The Mariners have been so bad for so long that even during that first half of the season, where they held first place in the division all alone for a whole day, many of us were predicting- after every loss- that the post-season drought would continue. I don't know what happened this year other than it seems a bad idea to give management multi-year extensions in the middle of the season. On the upside, I was so prepared for failure that I didn't cry, as I usually do, on the day we were numerically eliminated from contention. And perhaps even that blow was softened by knowing Fall Ball begins October 9th over here in Peoria.

Ramona_W

My doctor ordered bloodwork Tuesday and they left me a voicemail Wednesday morning saying everything was basically stable but my calcium was up. I was, of course, delighted because they're always griping about women and calcium. Then they said this was a bad thing because my Vitamin D was low so that means I'm not absorbing the calcium. I think it may also indicate the beginning of osteopenia which my sister has had for years.

If I understand correctly, we do get Vitamin D from sunshine, however, we don't get it if we're wearing SPF 45 every time we go out. Or if there isn't much sun available according to a doctor who tested me years ago in the PNW and said mine was low. Two things: Arizona has around 300 days of sun but they also have a high rate of Vitamin D "deficiency" IIRC and I'm curious what the rates look like in places like the Scandinavian countries or in Alaska where it is essentially dark for long periods. Do they make it up other times?

BillyD

Not so easy.

BillyD

The primary source and preferred source is of course the sun. That could be a problem in Phoenix because you could get fried to a crisp before you get enough vitamin D. But there are a few alternative sources like fortified milk, fatty fish like tuna and salmon, and beef liver. If healthy foods are a problem, and admittedly its hard to get enough from food, there's always D supplements. I take a 2,000 unit supplement daily because my levels are low this year and I'm not a big fan of direct sun.

Ramona_W

Gerontology is the study of aging and especially how it affects the body and mind. Also, how different people deal with this process and how it is dealt with in our culture as a whole. One of my big questions, which was never really answered, was whether a person can make changes to reverse or at least moderate the sketchy choices they made earlier in life and how late in life can you alter your course.

A little over a year ago, I bought the Selle Italia Diva which has a cut-out and gel. I wish I had bought the longer one so I would have more adjustment options and also more cut-out. I'd always had cheapish saddles and I could tell the difference from the moment we put it on the bike. Some women's anatomy is such that they also benefit from a cut-out, although they don't usually know this until they try a saddle with it, and down here in the SW it's excellent to have as much airflow as possible even though you're still wearing a chamois. Having used one of these saddles, I don't think I'd ever go back to a solid one.

Oh and I was told by the salesperson at Performance that I could bring the saddle back as long as I kept the cardboard it was mounted on so maybe *you* can try one of these to see if you like it.

Velo Vol 

More often than not remakes are meh. This doesn't have the harmony part.
I told the witch doctor I get a pretty good amount of sun in the summer and she says she sees "tanned" patients who are still low in D.
My knee is acting up so no riding today. Perhaps for a number of days.

Sad, because it's a beautiful 87F out right now.
See post #369.

Ramona_W

Perhaps I am too woke but this is giving me all kinds of feels. It appears to be fat-shaming and promoting obesity at the same time plus some of the bears have only numbers instead of names which is dehumanizing or de-bearizing. Maybe I need desensitivity training.

Velo Vol 

Not for the better.

Why did you take it?

Velo Vol 

Amazing. Not unlike some BF members with non-stop access to the buffet line.