Winter sucks
11-08-11, 08:53 PM
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If you're warm enough on your bike, spend less time inside and more time riding. If you're not hungry after 30 or 40 miles, you're doing it wrong.
Either way, lame excuse for driving.
Either way, lame excuse for driving.
11-09-11, 01:15 PM
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11-09-11, 01:37 PM
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Dude! I'm in Essex. This is nothing, yet! Wait til it stays in the 20s F outside all day.
By the way, I've still been commuting from Essex to Aberdeen and back each week since last November. 51 miles round trip.
YOU have zero-excuse.
By the way, I've still been commuting from Essex to Aberdeen and back each week since last November. 51 miles round trip.
YOU have zero-excuse.
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11-10-11, 01:21 PM
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11-10-11, 03:04 PM
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You gonna eat that?
You complain too much.
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11-10-11, 04:32 PM
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11-10-11, 06:17 PM
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Seriously !! You need to eat some fat. Forget about the "roadie diet".. it just won't work in winter time. You need to eat some animal fat. Bacon grease is your friend. Eggs fried with bacon grease and some cheese and sausage. Yummy !! Just look at all the primitive tribes that lived in cold climates. Animal fat was the most important thing in their diet. Lettuce and beans is not enough. You need to eat animal fat so that your body can produce heat.
11-10-11, 06:33 PM
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I once lived in a garage apartment in NC during the big snow storm of '94..or was it '95?..anyway, the heater barely worked and I could see my breath while inside sitting on the couch, so I can feel your pain. I live in Southern California now so I don't really have to deal with that kinda stuff anymore.
11-10-11, 07:13 PM
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how about an Omniheat electric jacket.
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11-10-11, 08:43 PM
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Hey Blue,
Gotta eat in the morning...one of the most important meals of the day
I have a bowl of oatmeal, 24 almonds (I know kinda weird right?) and follow it with an apple when I get to the office.
As it has already been said, you need food for the body to adequately generate heat. Some say carbs, others say fat. I say eat.
One of the guys I train with is a nutritionist, and a personal trainer. He's always after me about eating, not eating enough, and the absence of hunger with the kind of riding we do as a symptom of over-training.
I can relate to not turning on the heat when it makes the bills unbearable. One word about that. Polypro. Keeps you warm but not so warm that you sweat and subsequently get cold. If it does go with a lighter weight. Portable space heaters are pretty good now days, and they are a damn sight cheaper to operate at full than your furnace.
I live in Atlanta, but it still does get cold here too. It's going to drop to 29 tonight. But I will be riding in the morning. I can deal with the cold as long as there isn't a 25mph headwind like today. That makes it miserable real quick.
Just my take, I hope you get it worked out soon.
Gotta eat in the morning...one of the most important meals of the day
I have a bowl of oatmeal, 24 almonds (I know kinda weird right?) and follow it with an apple when I get to the office.
As it has already been said, you need food for the body to adequately generate heat. Some say carbs, others say fat. I say eat.
One of the guys I train with is a nutritionist, and a personal trainer. He's always after me about eating, not eating enough, and the absence of hunger with the kind of riding we do as a symptom of over-training.
I can relate to not turning on the heat when it makes the bills unbearable. One word about that. Polypro. Keeps you warm but not so warm that you sweat and subsequently get cold. If it does go with a lighter weight. Portable space heaters are pretty good now days, and they are a damn sight cheaper to operate at full than your furnace.
I live in Atlanta, but it still does get cold here too. It's going to drop to 29 tonight. But I will be riding in the morning. I can deal with the cold as long as there isn't a 25mph headwind like today. That makes it miserable real quick.
Just my take, I hope you get it worked out soon.
11-12-11, 12:14 PM
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3m window film? Or any plastic will work and you should feel the difference. I was in a place where I used blankets over the patio door one winter and it made a HUGE difference. Your body needs the food so start the stove or oven and cook some food. Insulate your gut!
