Motivate me please!

[Kins]

Did my usual ride going to the Vol centre today but took a longer way home. Cold out but with winter training pants and a decent jumper and wind jacket/scarf and hat, it was comfortable weather wise. Stomach muscles are taking a battering atm but energy levels are rising even from just doing a few miles a day.

 

[BrumJim]

You've gone quiet, MBE. Been out on your bike?

 

[mrbadexample]

You've gone quiet, MBE. Been out on your bike?

Not since Wednesday.

It's too bleedin' cold.

I might go out for a spin tomorrow afternoon if I get time, which I probably won't. Really struggling to find a bit of get up and go at the moment.

I did notice that DaveyM's been out there over the weekend. Well done mate.

 

[DaveyM]

I am really struggling to get out and about at the moment. Going out hill training again this week not many miles but sure is a hell of a work out. I am sure that you will get a couple of miles caught up this week.

 

[simon the viking]

Fresh air, getting fit and petrol £1.40ish a litre is my motivation!

 

[mrbadexample]

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. It's been over a week since my last ride. In that time I have drunk beer and eaten pizza. I have had impure thoughts about getting in the car.

I really don't like the cold. Rule #5 seems inexplicably difficult to follow at the moment.

Might try and find an hour tomorrow.

 

[DaveyM]

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. It's been over a week since my last ride. In that time I have drunk beer and eaten pizza. I have had impure thoughts about getting in the car.

I haven't been out all week, I am meant to be on a social group ride tomorrow, suppose I should make the effort.

How long till spring?!!

 

[RWright]

Shame on you two! I just got in from a 16 mile night ride! I realized I didn't put on my jacket
about a half mile in so rather than have to deal with it with Strava I took a rule 5, then to make things worse at furthest point away from home in the route, it starts raining. I am not sure if one is allowed to take credit for following rule 5 more than once per ride but I felt like maybe sometimes you should.

I do understand not wanting to ride in the ice and cold. Actually I can't take any rule 5 credit except for the mist messing up my glasses and my ass getting a little wet because I didn't take my rain bike. I just wanted to make you two feel lazy. The weather here has been pretty mild, I feel lucky.
Get out there when you feel ready to go!

 

[defy-one]

wanted to get out today.... currently sitting in a retail park whilst swmbo finishes the crimbo shopping..... the sun will set all too soon. HURRRRRYYY UPP

 

[mrbadexample]

Thank the small gods for a decent day. Slightly warmer, clear, dry, not too much wind. Did 14.47 miles at an average of 14.7mph.

My hips hurt like hell - that'll teach me to have 9 days off! On the plus side, my average speed is probably the best I've managed for that distance. It wasn't all that long ago I said I wanted to break the hour for a 14 mile loop. Today I did a slightly longer loop in about 58 minutes. Quite pleased, all in all.

Another nice day tomorrow would help somewhat...

 

[mrbadexample]

I haven't been out all week, I am meant to be on a social group ride tomorrow, suppose I should make the effort.

I'm sure you'll drop about 40 miles in. I'm right behind you in the league table...

 

[DaveyM]

I have rule #5 mastered today, riding on ice in the rain with an average temp of about 4c and a gusting Northerly wind
I did 20 miles, the time has come for the pretty little tricross to take a back seat and the MTB to come out for the really bad weather!
I need to get some miles in as MBE is just too close for comfort

 

[RWright]

I have rule #5 mastered today, riding on ice in the rain with an average temp of about 4c and a gusting Northerly wind
I did 20 miles, the time has come for the pretty little tricross to take a back seat and the MTB to come out for the really bad weather!
I need to get some miles in as MBE is just too close for comfort

Well done. Ice, rain, cold and wind. I think that would have beat me. You da man!

 

[BrumJim]

I'm trying the "gloves on the radiator" theory at the moment. Also try with additional socks (second pair over the first pair).
The big problem I have is when you step out of the front door, and immediately feel the cold. Ideally with a strenuous ride you should start feeling just a little bit cold, so that at the end you are nicely toasty, and not hot and sweaty. However nothing appears to be less appealing than starting your ride being cold.

Hence you counter this with warm fingers and toes. These are the bits that suffer the most when riding, as they don't get much of a work-out, and hence not much blood either. The effect of starting out with these extremities as nice and warm couteracts the coldness in the rest of the body, and as you start to generate your own heat, these bits start to cool down to normal temperatures. Furthermore, you only get that toasty-warm fingers and toes feeling if you head out on your bike anyway, so its a reward for braving the sub-zero temperatures.

Tried it this morning. Think I'll do so again tomorrow.

 

[mrbadexample]

Managed a bit today. Cold, but not unbearably so. Clear skies, so was icing up by the time I came home - frost all over the cars but the roads seemed ok.

Passed the 600 mile mark, which was nice.