how things have changed

[Pete]

The 3 mile walk is around a lake, so the trail is perfectly level and paved. It will be hard, but I'm determined to do it this year. I will probably pay for it the next few days after the walk.

Are you starting to get in shape for this? Do a little each day, and you should be able to do it comfortably.

[spiritscript]

Being in the hospital is hard! Hope you're doing better!

A few years ago I was in hospital recovering after two weeks in an induced coma due to wegeners, bleeding into my lungs, etc.

On regaining consciousness I was so weak I couldn't lift my arm to touch my face.

After two weeks of hard work I was able to zombie-shuffle myself out of hospital and back into some semblance of a normal life.

....

Last weekend I participated in a charity ride from midnight to dawn (with two thousand eight hundred and change other people).

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[Pierre42]

The Ride was 100% sweat powered foot-cycles.

There was even (at least) two penny-farthings (now there's enthusiasm for ya!)

[annekat]

The Ride was 100% sweat powered foot-cycles.

There was even (at least) two penny-farthings (now there's enthusiasm for ya!)

Glad to hear it! That makes it all the more impressive. BTW, had to google penny-farthings, but had guessed what they were correctly, in advance!

[drz]

Glad to hear it! That makes it all the more impressive. BTW, had to google penny-farthings, but had guessed what they were correctly, in advance!

I had to look it up too and now we are wiser and and better informed thanks to these posts.

[annekat]

I had to look it up too and now we are wiser and and better informed thanks to these posts.

True. We learn a lot here about Wegs and other things, too. I must have heard the term "penny-farthing" as applied to a bicycle at some time in my life. I don't know how else I could have ever guessed it in advance. It did take a couple minutes, before googling. The forum keeps our minds sharp, too.

[Debbie C]

That is very impressive Pierre,especially in the middle of the night, I couldn't get a good look at the map either, so how many miles did you do. And thats ALOT of byciclists ( I googled penny-farthing also !) I have seen them before but never knew what they were called, I thought that was just another Aussie expression !

[annekat]

That is very impressive Pierre,especially in the middle of the night, I couldn't get a good look at the map either, so how many miles did you do. And thats ALOT of byciclists ( I googled penny-farthing also !) I have seen them before but never knew what they were called, I thought that was just another Aussie expression !

It might originally be an English expression. Maybe Pierre could tell us. I'm only guessing that it refers to the size difference between the two wheels, and that a penny and a farthing would be two different sizes. Is that right, or a wild guess? I don't think I've ever seen any English coins in my life, so really don't know and would have to google again to find out.