Cold days and broken trainer

Posted January 30th, 2007 by mike

Activity-cycling
Distance-5.41
Time-29:27

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Distance-17.71
Time-1:04:04

I broke my rule of commuting.  Today it was 7 degrees when I left the house for work on the bike.  It honestly wasn’t all that bad.  I didn’t even have all of my bike clothing on, just a pair of jeans.  It honestly wasn’t as bad as I was expecting.  Then again, I only ride for about 6 minutes at a time.  I think I was colder sitting in my office than on the ride.  Silly old drafty building.

When I got home, I hoped right on the trainer for a 1 hour workout doing the Spinervals #24-Hillacious.   I must say it was a pretty good workout.  It is based on climbing so it works on strength using big gears and high resistance.  I got started, did my 3 minute warm up as the dvd told me, and noticed my trainer was making an awful weird noise.  I hopped off the bike and thought “this can’t be good” so instead of messing with it, grabbed my fiance’s bike off her trainer and used that one.  Seems like tomorrow I will be on the phone with Cycleops trying to get me a new one for nothing.  It should be under warranty, but if not, I will have to throw in the Michelin card and see what happens.

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