ride?

[lauraelmore1033]

Our weather has been decent, but I signed up for some silly challenge to do 4 barre classes a week for the next 4 weeks and my legs and bootay are just not up to doing any riding after class...

[Crankin]

I use these really cold weeks to concentrate on my other fitness activities. If there's a day that's 35+ with no wind and decent road conditions, I might go for a short ride, but generally, my outdoor riding ends in the middle of December and begins again at the beginning to middle of March. I substitute a hard step class for one hard ride, continue with my normal boot camp, and pray for snow so I can x country ski and snow shoe on weekends and maybe once during the week. So far, that's been twice so far, as we have had a snowless winter, pretty much. I also use my trainer at least once a week, and combine that with an occasional spin class. Each have their negatives for me, but I do a lot of intervals and one legged drills, which do help me in the early season.
I am really feeling out of sorts, due to the lack of snow. We will be traveling up north (where the snow is just so-so) for at least one, maybe 2 weekends at the end of the month/beginning of February. So looking forward to my nordic ski trip at the end of February, to the Methow Valley, WA.