Quentin Muhlert | Online Marketing Professional

Fall / Winter

Winter is not a good time to be a cyclist.

Rich foods and a lack of dry open roads (at least here in the NorthWest) make it easy to pile on pounds, and almost impossible not to lose form. I’m a bit of a stickler for riding in the rain, in that I bloody hate it.  You’re cold and miserable the whole time, and you know you’re wearing down your drivetrain tremendously. Plus once you get back home, you’ve got to clean the whole bike once you’ve dried yourself off and warmed up.

And that’s without going into the whole vehicular danger issue.

I’ve been managing well this winter though, mind you I’m sick right now and can’t do much for the next few days – but I”m on a regular program of stair climbing and power squats that seems to be keeping me from getting fat too quickly.  I have a trainer as well, but I’ve found that trainers tend to rub through your tires quite quickly, so I only am on that once a week.

Keeping weight off in the Winter is a challenge for anyone, but when I start being able to hit the mountains again in the Spring, it’ll pay off.

Late Season Rides

Had a great weekend of weather – unfortunately I was out of town for most of it and couldn’t get much riding in. The problem with late season riding isnt just that it’s getting colder and wetter out as we travel into fall, but also that the days are getting shorter. As someone who ends work at 5pm, I can only get an hour or so of riding in before it’s too dim to be safe. Managed 70k over the weekend just the same, which is not too horrible – should have been 170k though. Dropped down to 186lbs as well, which is great.

I know there are plenty of people who ride late into the night, but i’ve had too many close calls to take the risk. Daylight riding only for this guy.

I’ve been watching the “road to paris” youtube movie about the US postal service team training for the 2003 tour de france – pretty awesome.

Check it out here:
The Road to Paris