euphoria

I haven't ridden in 2 1/2 months, it is truly liberating

swim/yoga/girls, in that order

gsteinb

How's the posting on yoga forums?

CrimsonKarter21

The "Show us your Yoga Ball" thread is really poppin'. I think it just hit 1000 pages.

Machka 

Did you have an accident?

halfspeed

While the metric system is better for everything else, Fahrenheit is much more sensible for temperature than Celsius. It has better resolution and the advantages of easy conversion between measurements of differing magnitude is not useful for temperatue.

1. Not much. Icy roads and frostbite are the wrong kind of suffering.

2. Spinning, lifting.

bccycleguy

As another Canadian, but one who has much milder winter weather to deal with than Machka does to the east, I will get in about 500 - 600 km this winter on my hybrid (set up as a 'cross bike) before I put my Lemond back on the road in April.

During the winter I will average about 100 km / 4 hours / 5 - 6 times a week on my trainer, and I'll go skiing (Nordic) about 2 - 3 times a week. Skiing just started last week at the Sovereign lake Nordic Centre - Silver Star (25 minutes away). This is one of the top Nordic ski centres in North America with 100 km track-set every day. The Canadian National ski team are training up there now.

dark13star

1. 70 to 100 miles a week, but on the plains instead of climbing. I have been using my new fixed-gear for this mileage.

2. Alpine skiing, snow shoeing, backcountry skiing, hiking, running

There really isn't an off-season in Colorado, if you have interest in snow sports.

tkehler

I ride every day or two, for at least an hour and a half (including a couple of long-ish hills), year 'round.

In Vancouver, BC, it's either pretty mild out or it's pretty mild but pouring rain. (We don't have many sub-zero days.) I have small light fenders I put on the bike, and raingear, and they are good for a drizzle, but I don't like to ride in a downpour.

As for other activities, light jogging and some walking/hiking.

CerveloFellow

friggin vaporware

BarryJo

I try not to think about the months between December and February. But to pass the time:
1. Gym - I know there are varying schools of thought on lifting and negative effects on cycling, but I think it only helps. I stick to fairly light weights, slow and concentrate on the muscle contractions instead of trying to pack on the muscle which for me is real easy (15 years of weight training before I got into biking).
2. Trainer 3x week, averaging about 1-2 hours per session
3. Spinning classes

This year I would like to incorporate some sort of yoga or stretching routine into my training.

And I will ride when the roads are mostly ice free.

8Lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtWcb0bcA-A

halfspeed

Post of the day!

rousseau

Water freezes at 0 degrees. In the old system, Fahrenheit, it's something else (30?). This makes no sense, nor is it sensible.

Hey, I do lots of non-sensible things, like hook wires through my scrotum and go swinging on swingsets blindfolded on acid. I just don't claim to people who don't do those things that they're sensible when they're clearly not.

patentcad

I would expect a dopey Canuck who doesn't even know what temp water freezes at to do things like that. Mail me some of that blotter dude.

rousseau

Eh? Yer reading glasses not on properly? Maybe needing some bifocals, are we?

halfspeed

Choosing the boiling and freezing points of water for a temperature measurement system is thoroughly arbitrary. It doesn't make it any more "scientific" and it sacrifices an actually useful degree of precision. To get the same level of resolution in the celsius scale that you have with fahrenheit, you have to use fractional values.

I like the metric system, but celsius is crap (and it really isn't even metric in the same sense as the rest of the system).

bdcheung

it's a play on units.

BananaTugger

no u

Godwin

Can you really tell the difference between 40F and 41F? I can't tell the difference between 4C and 5C.

rousseau

Sorry, you're wrong. 0 is a sacred number, and was ordained by Thor to be the point by which we humans reference how water freezes. Or maybe some other Swedish guy. But never mind your sacrilege: let's be completely arbitrary and choose the freezing point of water as, I dunno...32 (looked it up)! That's 10 less than the meaning of life, innit?

Yes, well, you make a good point there. I don't know how many times I've asked someone the temperature, been told it was 22 degrees, and then asked the person, doubtfully: "Are you rounding?" Because we all know that there's a vast difference between 21.7 and 22, and not knowing the temperature to such an exacting degree of precision could spoil an otherwise pleasant spring day.

How dare you besmirch the system of measurement for temperature to which I and the rest of the world outside of Alabama in the USA are accustomed! You must allow me to defend our honour. Only, not in Alabama, if you don't mind. I've heard they don't take too kindly to people who use grammar properly there, and so I'd be at a disadvantage right from the start. How about Saskatchewan?

And pie isn't really cake. Your point?

Randochap

I often ride more in the final weeks of the year than any other months besides the big brevet ones. The inspiration comes from wanting to meet my distance goals before New Year's.

I used to do a lot of X-country skiing, taught in fact, but now live 3 hours drive from the nearest mountain. So, just keep riding with a bit of free weights thrown in. I'm thinking of doing a bit of running, but swimming would probably be better. I hate swimming.

Smallguy

I try to hit up a spin class or 2 a week and try to get on my trainer for about 3 hours a week

I hit the gym, downhill ski, snowshoe and hit the gym more frequently

I'm a recreational cyclist looknig to do some mtb races in may

halfspeed

I'll take all that as an indirect way of conceding my point.

Because you can't make use of the resolution nobody else should be able to?

Expand your horizons.

Canada would be a great place if it weren't for all the Canadians.

The point is that celsius (which has no advantage) is packaged with the metric system (which has significant advantages). I'll take one without the other, please.

Machka 

Hey ... don't lump us all in with the likes of rousseau!

DataJunkie

1. 150 miles a week. With significant amounts of snow that can drop to less than a 100.
2. I have issues finding time to do anything besides commute. I am strength training at home and plan on taking my son to our indoor pool. Someday I would like to snowshoe or cross country ski.
Also, the trainer 2 to 3 times a week.