Two Wheel Blogs

It is a sad state of affairs indeed for my cycling during this holiday season. Sure, I have pulled out the rollers on more than one occasion, but the passion has moved to other places.

Perhaps when the snow and ice is off the roads, my enthusiasm will again return for riding. I refuse to simply lay off and get fat, so I am doing other things to supplement my training.

Wow it is cold out there!

I have moved most of my training inside lately. I try to make a point of riding outside once a week to keep my edge and hopefully stay "able" to ride in the cold. It is my belief that if you do not ride into the cold you will not be able to ride in the cold at all (you have to acclimate your body somewhat). Anyway, I am *trying* to do that...

Yesterday was a day off the bike, but a day on for working the core. I have a handful of exercises I do to keep my midsection in shape to hold the rest of me in check.

I have bitten off and chewed quite a bit in the past week. I managed to survive a lot of riding at higher than usual pace. I earned the day off the bike that I took yesterday, but I did not shrug it off completely.

Wow, yesterday was a challenge! Perhaps not the sort of challenge we like reading about as cyclists though.

Things at work got kind of stupid yesterday, so I accordingly got wrapped around the axle and was left with no time to ride, but plenty of stress to displace.

I knew that something had to be done to offset this stress, and the oncoming calories from my wife's amazing lasagna, so I indulged in some core work.

Good stuff, it does not take very long and I think it helped me cover both bases.

These videos have nothing to do with the post, I just thought they were worth sharing.

Oh the pain. The suffering. And it's not even noon yet. Nor have I even gotten on my bike yet. I think we got about a foot of snow in the last 24 hours. I just spent a good part of the morning shoveling it off the drive and walkways. How many TSS points per hour can I claim for snow shoveling?

There's no question this one's going down in my training log as a core strength workout. G-wiz rode white. I shoveled white.