Man it is cold, I do not envy you guys that live up north, Here in south Louisiana, we only get a few days a year below freezing, 20 degrees when I woke up. We have much humidity so cold weather hurts. My wife thinks I am crazy but I swim when its cold, Pool is outside but warm, just a short sprint from the locker room. What do you guys do when its cold and your already racked up the miles on the trainer/tred mill?
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Re: Cold, Cold and more Cold [Stewart]
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we suffer.
Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com
Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com
Re: Cold, Cold and more Cold [Tom Demerly]
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. . and we also do well when the real racing season gets underway in the late spring and summer
I always found that I would have a great season of running and triathlon success after the longest coldest winters in Southern Ontario (Toronto area). I think that this was due to a number of factors:
1. I xc skiied more
2. I ran more
3. My mind/body was refreshed and ready to train hard for cycling and swimming when the weather got nicer in the spring/summer.
4. I didn't worry about it.
5. I had long term seasonal golas with no big expectations on performance until the key races in July and August.
-20C with a half a metre of snow on the ground here today!!
Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog
Re: Cold, Cold and more Cold [Tom Demerly]
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I'll second the suffering! :)
Personally, most of the time when it's 0°F and 70%RH (most of this week in MI) I say F*&$ it and ride my mtn bike or run anyway. I think the mental toughness gained is immeasureable.
Personally, most of the time when it's 0°F and 70%RH (most of this week in MI) I say F*&$ it and ride my mtn bike or run anyway. I think the mental toughness gained is immeasureable.
Re: Cold, Cold and more Cold [Stewart]
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yep.
you know its cold when your hands freeze up and you can't pull the brake levers!
you know its cold when your hands freeze up and you can't pull the brake levers!
Re: Cold, Cold and more Cold [Stewart]
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Man, I was thinking about this some more and this cold here in Michigan has been like a funeral durdge (sp?). The cold, the dark, the circus that has been my personal life for last three months have all combined to sap any energy I have for preparation and training. It seems like a time for dying. Incredibly, two people I know (one customer, one industry insider- both I knew) committed suicide in the last two weeks. Another person I know died of natural causes Wednesday (they were very old and sick). This is the down time of the natural cycle here I think. There a sense that we have reached bottom though, and that the "growing time" is around the next corner. A few more weeks of cold, maybe a snow storm and then those beautiful, ephemeral 45 degree days that suddenly feel like 70 degrees. There is that sense. Customers are pouring through the door. Yesterday I did four fittings, today, two already. People are gearing up, but right now we are coming out of the "dying time".
Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com
Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com
"I always found that I would have a great season of running and triathlon success after the longest coldest winters in Southern Ontario (Toronto area)."
If given a choice I'd much rather now be in Barbados than in the Great White North. A couple of days ago we hit -30C (-21F) here in rural eastern Ontario with a wind chill factor that must have been twenty degrees colder. I decided to go x-country skiing on the abondoned railway track trail with by black Lab. It was miserable. My hands froze even with super thermal gloves. After about half an hour I decided "this sucks" and headed home. Amazing that the cold doesn't seem to bother my dog one bit.
If given a choice I'd much rather now be in Barbados than in the Great White North. A couple of days ago we hit -30C (-21F) here in rural eastern Ontario with a wind chill factor that must have been twenty degrees colder. I decided to go x-country skiing on the abondoned railway track trail with by black Lab. It was miserable. My hands froze even with super thermal gloves. After about half an hour I decided "this sucks" and headed home. Amazing that the cold doesn't seem to bother my dog one bit.