Just wondering… it is cold…not just a little cold, but nasty evil type of cold. It’s almost impossible to run with wind chills close to -40 Celsius, swimming isn’t easy cause getting to and from the pool has challenges with snowy unsafe roads and poor visibility, but the bike and the TV are a perfect match! For those of you doing and IM between June and August, what are you doing?
It was 13C yesterday, 14C today and should be like that the rest of the week. 
Quite nice in Southern Ontario! 
Sorry about your luck.
I did 15 hours of training last week, which included 98 K of running.
Oops… I guess I should have clarified by saying Alberta! Canada is a big place, but I had no idea it was so balmy out East! LUCKY YOU!!! (98k of running in November? Why?)
Its not cold in Canada, yet. Its 4 degrees in Montreal, practically t shirt weather! I run 5 times a week in the -40C weather, for some reason it doesn’t bother me, and I hardly ever wear a base layer. I swim 3 times a week in the winter. However, I can barely make it through one session a week on the trainer, I get soooooo bored.
Well where I sit in Vancouver, we have 36cm of snow in my area over 24 hours. So it is the trainer every day for an hour and longer on the weekends for now. Swimming starting again in December. No running still.
Why not :-)) The best way to get into shape is to stay in shape. It’s all aerobic, nothing fast or serious.
None since Thursday but mostly because of work and social obligations.
The problem today is my furnace is broken. The average temperature inside the house is less than <10C. I’m stuck to being close to my cell, which doesn’t work in temperatures below -20C, and being within 15min from home in case ATCO decides to show up. It’s too cold to ride the trainer inside the house. The gym is more than 15min away.
I feel your pain (Living in Edmonton)
Dress warm and you can still get some good runs in. Last saturday (-40 with Wind Chill), still got a 90 min run in.
Don’t worry about it. I live in the same place (Alberta) and I still do my swimming and running (usually on a treadmill if real cold) and cycling (windtrainer), weights and so on. This time of the year, the training is not very serious anyway. After the 1st of the year, I gradually get into heavier training. With the numerous Chinooks you can usually get outdoors for cycling. This has worked for me for the past 16 years, with resulting AG records and high placings in IM Hawaii. SO DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT.
i live in oahu, training all the time to break 11 hrs at IMAZ
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I’m originally from Calgary and have been living in Vancouver for 6 years. And right now, not doing alot outside. Are you crazy, to many people can’t drive in the snow here. But even in the rain I go riding outside because it feels so much better than the trainer. But in Calgary I would totally hit the trainer and the gym. Frostbite. Not for me.
Have a good winter training.
11C here with wind and rain showers in NorCal. A miserable day!
Mark
Hey Brian, when did the snow come? I guess it’s fun out there before the roads get cleared? I remember being astonished at how bad people’s driving was at the onset of snow when I was over Christmas 2004.
I’m surprised you aren’t riding off road in the snow.
I know exactly how you feel tri-life, it’s been brutal here (Calgary) this past week. I did, however, manage to get out for a 3:20 run on saturday, I saw a total of 10 (!!) people running the downtown paths from 9:30-12.
Being at school 5x a week it’s easy to head down to the pool for a swim, to the track to run sprints, or … dare I say it, to the weight room.
I was planning on an hour and a half run today but the -40 windchills changed my mind pretty fast.
They probably can’t drive because they don’t have snow tires. My all-seasons are pretty lousy on the snow and I was pretty much sliding through every intersection. With snow tires it’s a completely different vehicle.
Julian,
I was out in the snow with the baby jogger for a walk yesterday. Pushing my 9 month old son around for an hour in the snow without any cleared sidewalks was enough of a workout for me yesterday. If traffic is not bad today, I might take out the single speed for a bit. Ya people are crazy in Vancouver in the snow. The 99 was not bad at 5:30 today but I bet when I head home in an hour that there will be a lot more nuts on the road.
36cm is nuts. It started snowing at 4pm on Saturday night and by 4pm on Sunday and after moving my neighbors on Sunday morning in the snow, I was glad that it stopped. So no time to ride yesterday, just snow removal and walks in the snow.
It was so much fun on Saturday night as he could not figure out what it was and where it was coming from.
Can’t see your picture Brian (just a red cross), unfortunately. That must have bummed out the runners’ weekend, I lsot mine due to electrical storms here!
Enjoy the change in weather and stay away from the crazies in their cars!
Was trying to post off our blog. I will do the old stand by and it will be fixed in a minute.
I was at the Save-On last night and this lady was parked beside me and was trying to back out. She was older and was sliding all over the place. So finally she gets out of the car, pops the trunk and grabs a shovel. I thought I would help her a bit and said that I would shovel the snow away from her back tires. She then informed me that the front is where she needed to shovel. I informed her (after watching her rear wheels spinning) that she was driving a rear wheel drive. After she argued for a couple of minutes, I just got in my car and left. She was driving an older Cadillac. I will tell you that living near White Rock does not pay off in the snow.
I am training nuttin! OK I swam this morning at Talisman, but that’s about it. I’m a wuss, but it’s the off season.