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Let's see your winter training facilities

Old 12-22-09, 11:04 AM
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Let's see your winter training facilities

My USOC-financed winter training complex, complete with crash protection on both sides. Please post pix of yours. Californians, Texans, Australians and others in warmer areas are of course welcome to post pix of their outdoor facilities ;-)

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Roads have too much ice so might aswell get the Mountain bike out
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Winter training facilities: (brought to you by HTFU)





Year round, baby.
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Florida, baby! Currently 60 degrees, going up to a high of 68 today.

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Originally Posted by mattm
Winter training facilities: (brought to you by HTFU)
Year round, baby.
Where's H in HTFU? All I see is lovely tropical climate.
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Originally Posted by Flash
My USOC-financed winter training complex, complete with crash protection on both sides. Please post pix of yours. Californians, Texans, Australians and others in warmer areas are of course welcome to post pix of their outdoor facilities ;-)

Hope you don't have downstairs neighbors.
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Originally Posted by Flash
My USOC-financed winter training complex, complete with crash protection on both sides. Please post pix of yours. Californians, Texans, Australians and others in warmer areas are of course welcome to post pix of their outdoor facilities ;-)

you wearing enough clothes to ride indoors?
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I ride outside on the weekends. However, weekdays after work, I ride inside due to lack of natural light.





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Just do a google satellite view of Texas; that's my winter workout facility.
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Originally Posted by diverguy
Florida, baby! Currently 60 degrees, going up to a high of 68 today.
You suck. Oh. Did I mention you suck? Oh wait, maybe, instead...you suck!
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Don't have a pic but:

Cheap Nashbar fluid trainer (looking to upgrade to a KK Rock and Roll)
Performance Travel Trac rollers.
Outside in the snow.

Sorry, none of that deserves pics.
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I am still able to get some outdoor rides in, however that might change with 1-2 feet expected between christmas eve and christmas day.

Indoor setup: Please ignore the bed, we currently have family staying with us over christmas.

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Originally Posted by gsteinb
you wearing enough clothes to ride indoors?
My house is like an icebox in the winter. I'm very cheap with the heat. My brother was over with his family recently and he told me he kept his thermostat at 68 degrees. I said "68 degrees? Why?" He responded: "because we're civilized"

My wife and kids are pretty much used to it, we dress accordingly and as you see the indoor cold allows me to dress as if I were riding on the road in the cold.
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Originally Posted by boostedcvc
I am still able to get some outdoor rides in, however that might change with 1-2 feet expected between christmas eve and christmas day.
Where you located? That sounds like our forecast here in MN.
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Originally Posted by milliron
I ride outside on the weekends. However, weekdays after work, I ride inside due to lack of natural light.




Now that's a nice setup. I like the look of those rollers.
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Originally Posted by mattm
Winter training facilities: (brought to you by HTFU)



Year round, baby.
there's no HTFU'ing over here until the snow and ice are gone.
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Originally Posted by boostedcvc
I am still able to get some outdoor rides in, however that might change with 1-2 feet expected between christmas eve and christmas day.

Indoor setup: Please ignore the bed, we currently have family staying with us over christmas.

my first thought upon viewing this was: great idea, ride rollers like a demon, collapse in nearby bed.
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Originally Posted by khatfull
Where you located? That sounds like our forecast here in MN.
Northwest Suburbs - Brooklyn Park
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Northwest Suburbs - Brooklyn Park
Woodbury here...looks like you'll get more than me according to Dave Dahl...he says NW burbs get more than E and SE. You ride with the TCBC at all?
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Ha! I wish I had a picture of my training facility.
If I'm not outdoors, I train in my daughter's room. It's away from the main bedroom and helps keep the noise down since I'm on the trainer at 4am.
The room is bright pink with yellow trim. There's a lot of furry animals and cute posters and pictures. The TV is old and small. I have a table next to the bike with a box on it and the fan sitting on that.

I'm not in there to even watch TV. I put it on ESPN and leave it - without sound. I'm there to grind at my teeth in pain.
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Gary wins (for indoor training). Nothing can beat that setup!
But can you see the screen from your bike over the elevated highback chairs?
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