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Colorado Bicycler wrote: Well, Maggie - I did a great Colorado ride today - on our "Urban Trail System" - you feel as if you are in the country, but you really are in the city. Temp - about 54F, little wind, 1.5 hours of fine riding! Hope your weather gets better. A shame not to be able to ride outside. Perhaps a "non-rain" dance? I've tried a "non-snow" dance, but it's not working. This weekend I plan to BOWL in some benefit thing. I haven't bowled in so long I hope I remember how....May 1st I am in Walk America... http://www.walkamerica.org/lindabuset I am exercising and raising money for charity through activities, but I am not doing any riding. I'm glad you had a wonderful Colorado ride. I am going back to Tahoe the second week in May and I plan on riding alot. I'm sure the high altitude is going to kill me. Hopefully the weather in Jersey will get better soon and I can see if I can really ride a real bike for any distance. I can sure ride that stationary. All Good things, Maggie |
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Look , all you folks need to do is get a snowmobile like myself. That way
you are in a win win situation. You love the snow and the warmth! You cant beat sledding after a nice nor'eastern. :-) "jj" wrote in message ... On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:14:55 GMT, "chris c" wrote: I live in Western NY so the roads are all flat except for your minor hills and that. If I do 10 miles on my staionary bike everyday, will it be easy for me to do 10 miles on the road bike? Obviously the speed is harder to keep the same especially on hills. I find myself aroun 20 mph on the st. bike. Thanks 20mph, but at what power setting? Pedalling at 20mph on fairly flat roads for 10 miles is definitely intermediate level riding ability, imo. You'll have to decide if the position on the stationary bike is similar enough to your road bike so it works the same muscles. You might need more neck and shoulder conditioning, however we're only talking 30 min of riding. Since I was snowed in yesterday (5"), I rode my old stationary bike, one of those department store things with a strap and fly-wheel. Observations: Definitely a little harder than riding 10 miles on the flats, since there's no coasting, even a little bit. ;-) Quads definitely got pumped, but after 35 minutes, that eased off and I got a second-wind. Watching TV and/or playing fast songs on the stereo, it was pretty easy to ride for 50 minutes. With the big seat that comes with those, the worst effect is my butt got numb at 40minutes, otherwise I could have easily gone past an hour. No soreness the next day. Not sure how much cycling-specific training effect, since the position is different. Conclusion: Dump the stationary bike and get a trainer for 200 bucks (or get rollers) if you have a lot of bad winter weather. Been lucky this winter. Only about 5 days of weather too bad to ride outdoors. (US, mid-atlantic region). jj |
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chris c wrote: Look , all you folks need to do is get a snowmobile like myself. That way you are in a win win situation. You love the snow and the warmth! You cant beat sledding after a nice nor'eastern. :-) "jj" wrote in message ... On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:14:55 GMT, "chris c" wrote: I live in Western NY so the roads are all flat except for your minor hills and that. If I do 10 miles on my staionary bike everyday, will it be easy for me to do 10 miles on the road bike? Obviously the speed is harder to keep the same especially on hills. I find myself aroun 20 mph on the st. bike. Thanks 20mph, but at what power setting? Pedalling at 20mph on fairly flat roads for 10 miles is definitely intermediate level riding ability, imo. You'll have to decide if the position on the stationary bike is similar enough to your road bike so it works the same muscles. You might need more neck and shoulder conditioning, however we're only talking 30 min of riding. Since I was snowed in yesterday (5"), I rode my old stationary bike, one of those department store things with a strap and fly-wheel. Observations: Definitely a little harder than riding 10 miles on the flats, since there's no coasting, even a little bit. ;-) Quads definitely got pumped, but after 35 minutes, that eased off and I got a second-wind. Watching TV and/or playing fast songs on the stereo, it was pretty easy to ride for 50 minutes. With the big seat that comes with those, the worst effect is my butt got numb at 40minutes, otherwise I could have easily gone past an hour. No soreness the next day. Not sure how much cycling-specific training effect, since the position is different. Conclusion: Dump the stationary bike and get a trainer for 200 bucks (or get rollers) if you have a lot of bad winter weather. Been lucky this winter. Only about 5 days of weather too bad to ride outdoors. (US, mid-atlantic region). jj The last time I was on a snowmobile was in the pocono mountains and I flipped on a turn and rolled down the mountain. Good thing I was young and the thing didn't roll over me. I still have nightmares. All good things Maggie |
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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:50:07 GMT, "chris c" wrote:
Look , all you folks need to do is get a snowmobile like myself. That way you are in a win win situation. You love the snow and the warmth! You cant beat sledding after a nice nor'eastern. :-) There's no exercise in that. Try cross country skiing, and especially skate skiing if there is a groomed XC ski center by you. Ben |
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that's what the gym is for.
"Ben Kaufman" wrote in message ... On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 04:50:07 GMT, "chris c" wrote: Look , all you folks need to do is get a snowmobile like myself. That way you are in a win win situation. You love the snow and the warmth! You cant beat sledding after a nice nor'eastern. :-) There's no exercise in that. Try cross country skiing, and especially skate skiing if there is a groomed XC ski center by you. Ben |
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