Unintended benefits from where you train? (Page 2)

Oregon coast here-head winds of 30+ mph, hills, hills, hills, and OWS in the ocean. I relish my first race of the season which is in the valley, flat and in a lake.

Do I see any benefits... 

Let me count the ways.  

I live in middle of nowhere Sask, Canada. so it isn't very crowded, in fact I am one of 3 people here I know doing triathlons/ have done triathlons.  
Surrounded by 3 hills so hill training is built in to almost every long ride.
The cold weather helps to HTFU for cold weather racing.   
I am close to 3 "lakes" so open water swims are readily availible.
There is a great group of guys who road race in town that I can group ride/ train with.
There is an olympic distance pool with max 4 people in a lane doing lane swim at any given time.
There is a great bike path for running on.
The wind is always here to push you back and keep you in line when you think  your starting to go fast

Now if I had warmer weather I'd be so very  happy

And no one has thought of having a good excuse for hair removal!

I also train at altitude (7000-9000 ft). If anything, it helps with the swim for races up here, most of the folks who are not acclimated have a hard time with the swim start and end up out of breath pretty quickly.

more power to you guys that train at altitude, I almost passed out when i went to visit my cousins in denver. In GA we got alot of everything here, no major extremes but enough to get the experience. My running course i awesome!!! to the front of my neighborhood is exactly 1 mile so i can loop that and get a massive amount of hill training (name of my neighborhood is laurel cliffs LOL). I have monster thighs and calf muscles.

A winery that serves lunch and welcomes cyclist. Has become one of my favorite rides.

I grew up in Wisconsin and I LOVE cold weather. Don't like hot. I once ran a 50k in February when it was way below freezing and loved every minute of it. I would much rather do anything outside when it is cold, than when it is hot or humid!

I live and train in the Chicagoland area. I think there's a pretty good mix of environment in the area. One negative is it's pretty flat around here. I need to go to Wisconsin to get any kind of hill training, but that's only 1.5-2 hours away so not bad. I do notice I'm pretty adverse to weather. The extreme changes here have made me little effected by almost any kind of weather be it hot/cold/windy/rainy whatever. When I go do MTB races in Wisconsin the locals have a huge advantage over me on elevation changes. I get up there as much as possible to close that gap.

Heat, humidity, and hills.

You really wouldn't believe how hilly Atlanta is until you start biking and running. 

If they ever have a triathlon in sub-zero temps, then I'm going to rock the course.

Living in South FL, it would have to be comfort with non-wetsuit swimming and I suppose being able to pedal constantly and stay down in my aerobars (folks used to hilly terrain often have pedaling and saddle/aerobar breaks).  

I wish I could say that living here has helped me adapt to the heat, but the humidty pretty much ruins that for me (sweat just doesn't evaporate to help the cooling process).

 

Living in New Hampshire, I've had to learn to not care about the weather.  It's ALWAYS going to be misting, or raining, or snowing, or windy, or humid, or sub zero, or hurricaning (did I make that word up), and often most of those on the same ride.  Oh yeah, and the hills.

Edited by wbayek 2010-05-12 12:25 PM