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YES!  Looking forward to it!

x2... who's on the relay team? are you still swimming?

Justin W,

I have been wearing winter leg warmers, arm warmers, an insulated skull cap which covers my ears, a vest for under my jersey with wind protection on the front, L. Garneau flex zone winter gloves, wool cycling socks, and a pair of chilly willie ski socks (a silk like material with metal flakes to hold body heat). Dressed like this I'm comfortable down to about the mid thirties.

A trainer would be more convenient, but I'm going to try to tough it out as long as possible. I think I'll make it through the winter. Plus there is just something about riding outside when there is no one else (cyclist) out there on the road.

Today the cold wasn't the issue it was the wind. Wind is blowing 18mph out of the NNW, with gusts up to 28. With a headwind I had trouble maintaining 15mph. With a tailwind I maintained 31+mph for over 2 minutes on an interval. Question why does it seem the head wind is always stronger than the tailwind??????

Sorry to hear about your knee. I hope it is nothing serious

Rode my mt. bike in to the office this morning.  It's only 3 miles, but when I left it was 4 degrees with 2" of new snow on the ground.  I decided that anything below 10 is just too cold for my feet, but I definitely prefer cold over wind.

Edited by gavisk 2010-01-07 1:42 PM

Well its me and 2 guys from my Tri group and yep I am swimming. Ill be the guy drafting off you. Once EvD put me on his group the other two couldnt get off that group fast enough.



Edited by Newtons1st 2010-01-07 2:29 PM

I totally had the same problem, only mine was iced coffee.  *shudder*

Everyone in Florida is whining because it was in the 30s this morning.

All you northern people that brave the conditions seriously have a ton of respect from me.  I would be in the gym on dreadmill or trainer without a second thought.

Just be careful out there, don't slip and break something you might want to use some day.

If I were in Florida and temps were in the 30s, I'd be whining too.  I have a climatologist/statistician friend who told me that temps right now in Florida are colder than those being experienced by most parts of Alaska and Greenland.  Not fair at all.

Hm, that's interesting.  How does one become a climatologist/statistician? 

And I agree that it's certainly not warm.  I think I just don't much like listening to people whine.  It's going to be like this for 4-5 days, a week tops.  People who live in the north live with temperatures well below this for months at a time.

I feel like saying "wah wah wah" every time someone complains.

Hm, I wonder if I'm pmsing?

Sorry, off topic.

No I will not comment, nor will I post a link or pictures related to your status of pms-ing!

IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT IT WAS TOO SHOCKING (or just plain WTF?) WHAT I POSTED EARLIER... enough trauma has been done for this week!  lol!

I just got an email with pictures from up north some where, where the snow drifts are 10-20 feet (dwarfing houses) high!  Cold is one thing, but you start adding conditions like that... No Thank You!


Cheri - your knee pain... sore like muscles or sore like IT, ligament, cartlidge type issues.  I hope some anti-inflamatories can help it out and you are back on track in no time.  Injuries suck more than the previously mentioned snow drifts!



Edited by Trin2bfast 2010-01-07 3:41 PM

Only if I can draft off you in the bike at the DU in Feb.... which I am still looking at doing (although I haven't paid for anything yet.)  I know you got some of that Evondo 'c' elixir you picked up from him on the river! 

My under garment is under armour cold gear (top & bottom) . Then I put my bike short. Top I add a bike jacket or some thing windstopper. feet -wool socks then bike shoe with a goretex neoprene bootie. for hands I put the bike gloves then add winter gloves (insulated for wind and cold). Head usually just a beanie then helmet. If wind is really bad and face hurts (wool baklava or wind stopper type baklava). Usually that is it for me.

Good Job getting out there- I hate headwinds-- but a good burn for the legs.

Forecast here is for 3 degrees above freezing for a high... I'll stick to the gym for my workouts this week... Stay warm crew.

Whoa.  Busy day here today.  I had meetings in the city, so no time for internet cruising and missed about 20 pages of posts.  Won't attempt to comment on any of them, but did have a moments pause thinking about the upside of peeing standing up.

Meetings were on 57th and 5th.  How convenient.   Am thinking about switching to a Mac. Bergdorfs is across the street but I'm hanging in the Apple store over lunch.

Apple put macs into all of my kids classrooms at school and he does not know how to use a PC, I got him a Macbook 3 months ago and decided that I needed to be able to at least be able to answer questions about his computer so I got one for myself ... He has been able to answer most of my questions...

You should definitely switch! Macs are so much better than PCs. I just got mine in June and it's the best computer I've ever had!

Question for the folks that use an indoor trainer - ummm do you bother to lube?  Until tonight my rides had been short but I gotta say about 45 minutes into this ride I was wishing for some glide.
I will try to think ahead next time.

I also noticed my brain is mush on the trainer.  While watching Biggest Loser the other night on the trainer I wasn't able to remember any contestants names and tonight I had a hard time keeping track of who had the ball.  In my defense I am not much of a college ball fan but still.

So here's the plan - tomorrow while the girls are in PE I plan to give the elipitcal a try and hope my ITB doesn't start screaming at me.  They actually have a really good ballet tone class with lots of stretching so I'll do that after.  If all goes well on the elipitcal I'll give the treadmill a shot Saturday and maybe, just maybe I'll try to run outside for a short run Sunday.  What say you MG?  Sound like a plan?  I am open to suggestions.  I am balancing between off my ITB and feeling remotely ready for this half.

Loving the purple!!!  Yahoo!  And awesome getting another victim err I mean recruit inot tri's

KK - I do the trainer and do not. I usually go no longer than 60 minutes but have been 90.

Justine and I are signing up for the DU after the Houston Half - you in?  Is the Dallas DU not going to work out?

I'll ride to work in the really cold (like this morning), but it's a short ride, so I just wear longjohns under khakis, a fleece jacket and a shell over that, good warm hat under my helmet, and ski gloves.   If it's snowing, I'll wear ski goggles.  By the time I've covered the three miles there, even at near-zero degree temps, I'm sweating.  Except for my feet, which are like blocks of ice.

But on a day like today I wouldn't even consider a training ride.  Those are strictly for 20 plus degree days. On those days I'll wear a medium weight bottom layer under windproof-front bib tights (I like the way bibs make my lower back feel warmer) and a heavyweight, long-sleeve, full-zip jersey that's really more like a jacket with back pockets (again, windproof front).  Down around 20 I'll wear ski gloves, but above 30 I wear  neoprene winter cycling gloves.  Cheap neoprene over-booties I bought at Performance, and fairly thin Smartwool socks.  This may not seem like much clothing, but we have almost no humidity here, so 20 degrees just doesn't feel that cold.  The most expensive item was the jersey/jacket, but it has a fairly wide temperature range.  I've worn it comfortably over a synthetic t-shirt on 50 degree days.  I generally don't like anything on my face, but if it's down around 20 I'll sometimes wear a neck gaiter that I can pull up if my face gets really cold. 

You don't have to spend a ton of money to keep warm, you just have to make sure that what you do buy has that front layer of windproof material.  I got my bibs, jacket, and underlayers at >50% off from Steepandcheap and Bonktown.

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