Not long now kids...
Don't ride much in the winter. You know the routine. Too cold. Snow. Ice. Winter. And I'm in the country here. Ride on the highway in winter, snow piled on the side of a road, a transport shoots by on either side, I bail out on the gravel, which really isn't gravel but a slick mix of hard snow and ice with the occasional frozen racoon speed bump. Instant crash. So I wait until a good thaw. Typically late Feb, early March.
Winter workout? A lot of gym time. No exercise bikes for me. There isn't a single one in my gym that even remotely approximates a biking setup. Maybe if I rode a recumbent... Lots of running on the mill. Ten minutes to start, lift, fifteen to twenty after, with at least five minutes of jacked up speed in the nine to ten mile per hour range, always interesting after a session of leg presses and extensions. Rest of my energy is taken up with chopping firewood.
I ski. Downhill. Going to Alberta next week. That XC skiing looks like rough work.
Had thought about a trainer, or rollers. New wheels this year though, and have tried to keep my annual winter purchasing freakout to a minimum.
