January Indoor Challenge

[Owlie]

After a month of feeling a combination of exhausted and sick, I finally got my butt back on the bike (on the trainer) for an hour of ladders. Actually, I did an hour and five, because I had an awesome playlist and wanted to finish the song. I'm not sure I can feel my left sitbone anymore.

Everything hurts now, but it feels good. I'm probably not making my goal this month...

am I the only one who dances on the trainer?

[jyyanks]

I wish I could do an hour on the trainer! Impressive. Right now 30 minutes is tough!

[Owlie]

I wish I could do an hour on the trainer! Impressive. Right now 30 minutes is tough!

I'm finding that it's really hard to just pedal for an hour. Ladders are easiest for me because it's 1- or 2-minute chunks with 3-minute warm-up and cool-down.

[marni]

right now I am working sustained cardio on the trainer since we seem to be having a weekly weather event of pestilence, plague, fire, famine, wrath of God wind hail heavy rain and flooding on the day I usually do a long road ride. This week I made it for an hour at hr 117 ( which for me is the 75-80% ) followed by 1/2 hour of stair step intervals of fast easy spinning. Texas badly needs the rain, and I need the cardio conditioning, but really this weekly terror of the skies is pretty silly.

marni

[Norse]

A little under an hour of Global Vision's Maui Rollers today. Wish I could actually be in Maui! Probably a Spinerval tomorrow.

[tealtreak]

y'all can laugh at me this summer when it is 99 at 9:00 AM- but I had an awesome 3 hours outside in the 60 degrees! heaven..........I am quite lactic acid stupor-ed.........

[Owlie]

y'all can laugh at me this summer when it is 99 at 9:00 AM- but I had an awesome 3 hours outside in the 60 degrees! heaven..........I am quite lactic acid stupor-ed.........

:P

It was the perfect day to ride--sunny, around 40--I'll take it! Unfortunately, it was also incredibly windy. So I ran some errands and have been attempting to do work.

I'll get my hour on the trainer in tomorrow. I slept in today and am still feeling the after-effects of yesterday.

[Catrin]

Sunshine today! 40 degrees today! 30 mph winds today...sigh. 1 hour on the trainer and 1 hour with weights.

[Owlie]

Half-hour on trainer because I forgot what time it was. I also forgot to eat beforehand. (The only thing I've had to eat today was breakfast!)

[Norse]

One hour and 25 minutes doing threshold tempo intervals while watching the unranked Gopher womens' basketball team defeat 9th ranked Ohio State. (sorry OS fans )

[Crankin]

I am not doing the challenge, but I rode my trainer for maybe the 3d time this year (I have been going to spin classes 1-2X a week). I did half the Chris Carmichael workout that someone posted here, 35 minutes of fast spinning and endurance intervals. I did one set instead of 2 of the endurance intervals, as there is no way I can be on the trainer for an hour unless DH is there to talk to me.

[Catrin]

I have met my goal of 30 hours exercising this month - I chose to count all activities to encourage myself. While not that much time was spent on the actual trainer, I did put in a lot of spinning time - and of course there is also the time spent throwing weights around.

I did, however, get in about 2 trainer sessions a week, and that isn't bad considering how hard it is for me to get on the thing.

[Norse]

34 minutes of Spinervals' Time Saver - Techniques session put me over the top this morning.

[rubysoho]

Didn't meet my goal for the month but since I was side tracked with physical therapy for a chronic back/neck issue I don't mind.

[Anelia]

I didn't participate in the challenge because I didn't know what goal to set. Everything depends on the weather and January was too cold because I have 19 hours on the stationary bike. Now the temperatures are really really low, about -4 and +4 F so every day I go to the gym to ride the stationary bike and every other day to do weight lifting. I have 12 times weight lifting (about 40 to 60 minutes each) and 4 times running: about 30 min each. The hours I spent on the bike in January are only 13