Just don't do what I've done and forget to check how much water you have when you stop and not bother to top up. I find it a lot easier to forget when I'm using a bladder compared to bottles.

Using the US navy method I'm about 15% body fat, most of which is around my belly, so I'm guessing that Richard is aiming for single digits

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:23 am

PaulB2 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:17 am If there's a button that could tell you how far the nearest spa is and whether or not it thinks you can get there on time before it shuts, that'd be handy

Ooo get you combining bikepacking and hot tubs

That's just one of the many benefits of BAM in the back garden.

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:38 am You need to start a tea snobs thread Dave . You're right of course though, a pot is the one true way.

Titanium tea pot anyone?

https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk ... 800ml-p977

If there's a button that could tell you how far the nearest spa is and whether or not it thinks you can get there on time before it shuts, that'd be handy

lune ranger wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:12 am

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:09 am Store them somewhere away from sunlight.

Where in Wales would you suggest?

Basically, anywhere

12/3/2021 71.3
19/3/2021 71.1
16/3/2021 70.5

A bit of a mixed week but counteracted by a good amount of exercise.

That reminds me, use Russian caravan tea bags so that you don’t need to use two bags to get a strong cuppa.

I hit 50 during the pandemic and I think about the past less than I did when I hit 40, despite there being so much more time available for introspection. I get the odd bit of nostalgia about what could have happened if life zigged instead of zagged but I spend far more time looking forwards.

It's a pithy slogan but reality is a bit more nuanced than that. Stay at Home (except for exercise, shopping, work, education or caring for someone in your social bubble), Protect the NHS (since it's underfunded and understaffed but the government doesn't want to take responsibility for that so push...

Thanks for all the ideas, gives me plenty to look out for.

Shewie wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:28 pm I'd do £42 posted if it's any use to you?

I thought I'd already replied to this but can't see it now. Thanks for the offer but I'm a S/M depending on the cut.

Tea theoretically has more caffeine than coffee though only if you chew on the leaves to extract it.

That seems like a very long time ago

Quick, dismantle him to test the quality of his construction!

rudedog wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:11 pm Define budget

roughly 40 is what I had in mind, while an omm kamleika would be a tad over budget.

...for running and bikepacking. I've seen the Alpkit Arro in their sale (Shaf, look away ) but was wondering if there's any good / better alternatives to look for.

The important question, will it fit inside a Myti mug 650?

5 min 40 would have been more likely

The sun was out I so thought I'd loop over the (small) ridgeline via a footpath that I vaguely remember having walked on years ago. The highlight was being circled by an Apache helicopter from the MOD base. The furthest I've run so far in terms of distance, time and elevation: 9.2k in 57 minutes and...

I really enjoyed that, thanks.

When I was 17-18 or so and walking to my weekend job at 5:30-6 in the morning in the dark, I was about 20' behind a woman in a business suit, wheeling a suitcase obviously heading to the station at the end of the road when I realised that I was going to be late for work so just burst in to a run. Th...

I'm having difficulty imagining how you'd get thigh rub on a bag that's behind you unless you generate so many watts that you create some form of spatial distortion field. Or your legs are on back to front. If money is no object then there's a tailfin setup (a 20l bag, iirc). There's a few companies...

‘96 in a bar in West London, watching England beat France in the five nations. Strictly speaking it was a Francophile bar and they were expats but you did ask. Out of curiosity where do Spanish, German and French twenty somethings go on holiday? I would have thought the UK would be on the pricy side.

The problem around here is that the chase proved so popular last summer that cannock council's grand plan to combat that is to close all the laybys and small free carparks while charging for parking at the biggest carpark. It's going to be bedlam in all the surrounding villages.