Indoor training...

Boy do I look lousy on Strava this month and...well...last month.  I know I haven't been cycling as much but I just can't bring myself to log my indoor cycling.  Just sitting there spinning away getting no miles on Strava.  I guess it's good to at least get the exercise but it does mess up tracking my speeds, calories burned, effort, etc.  On the plus side I feel like I sweat like a madman so I must be putting in some effort.  On the downside, there's really no way to replicate the burst of effort it takes to get up that 10% grade.

Using the indoor training skewer outdoors...

That can't be all bad, can it?  It doesn't really add that much weight, does it?  Maybe I'm just lazy because I didn't want to switch out the Kurt Kinetic training skewer for the Reynolds Cycling skewer that came with my carbon wheels.  I really need Spring to come quickly...

Less packs of people during the winter?

So it's mid-December and I'm noticing that there are less packs of 3-10 people cycling around San Diego.  During the Spring, Summer and Fall there are a lot of small packs that I see cycling up and down the coast or even inland.  With December now it full swing I still see those weekly group rides with 20-30 people speeding through Encinitas but I don't see a lot of the smaller groups.  Interesting phenomenon.  I blame it on the light fog.  Who wants to end up better rear-ended by a car while cycling down Pacific Coast Highway?

Cold fingers...

So it's now almost mid-December in San Diego and I think it's finally time to take out those full-finger gloves.  It really isn't that cold outside if I just put on a base layer underneath my jersey but the tips of my fingers do get dang cold.  It almost makes it want to do long slow climbs as opposed to ride near the coast.  Less velocity means less chilly air running across those fingers.  Or maybe I should stick with the regular gloves so that I stick with climbing training during the winter.  How that for logic?