brrrrr.....

Well 14 days since my last post praising the sixTY degree weather, and now it's sixTEEN degrees and in no way inspiring me to ride outside but I did manage to walk a mile up through the park and back. It's always cool to see the trails we ride OFF the bike. We hear and see things we normally wouldn't. We bust out muscles that we should use once in awhile. We see the trail from a different angle, other trail users look at us and respond differently(some just ignore), and I actually get lost easier, missing that last turn that I would've made on my bike. I guess that's because I'm not constantly scanning far ahead as when I'm at cruising speed. I can get a downright saunter going and just enjoy the quiet non-mechanical time outside.
During the cold months of January and February, my nice carbon-fiber road bike sets upon the windtrainer calling my name. It's a good way to keep up (and actually improve after the holiday feeding frenzy) fitness so I'm feeling good about myself and ready to impress my friends in the spring as I drag them up Wolcott path for a warmup, and do Buck Hill repeats.........
Once on the trainer( it takes some motivation to actually get on it), I generally do 50 minutes, with gearing and rpm intervals every 5 minutes, and the time goes by quickly. I turn on the tv crank up some tunes anything to keep motivated and forgett about the monotony of going nowhere. I use a hrm to keep track of my heart's highs and lows. My theory also is to keep the heart rate changing, within the zones of course. Just like any other muscle, it needs diversity, cross-training, if you will.....
Enough talk anout it, now it's time to go do it.