What have you done instead of riding your bike?

[Flybye]

It is a whopping -5 here.

Last week I cleaned the oven.

Last night I cleaned the knobs on the oven, the burner pans, and that creepy place under the stove top that collects water from over boiled noodles.

Today I shampooed my carpets.

All the while thinking, if it was warm out, I would live happily with a grease infested oven and grimy carpets while I rode my bike.

Tree Up - check
Presents Purchased - check
Presents Wrapped - check
Christmas Cards Mailed - check
Cookies baked and in the freezer - check
Christmas Candy Made- Saturday with the girlfriends

Work Medicaid Billing done - check
Appointments scheduled - check


What do you do to pass the time??????
Will this winter ever end??????

[7rider]

What do you do to pass the time??????
Will this winter ever end??????

Why, the winter has hardly begun!!!!

Having a house full of in-laws this coming weekend makes it "easy" to stay home on icky days to dust, vacuum, do laundry, and the like. Oh...and the tree is up and the lights are up and most of the holiday doo-dads are out of their boxes and scattered about in an attempt to balance "festive" and "kitchy".

As long as hideous weather is rain or ice, and not snow, I intend to become much better on rollers this winter.
If we get some real snow, or cold with no rain, we'll be heading for the mountains - or hills, in the case of MD - to go skiing.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Pass the time? Oh, if only I had more time to pass!
Aside from my regular day job work.... DH and I play music with friends, or play music for community events. I do most of our shopping, cooking, and cleaning. I do some writing on occasion, and interact a great deal with friends and fellow village dwellers. I garden a little.
When the weather is too cold, snowy, or sleety to bike, I either go fitness walking or snowshoeing.
I had to put aside my knitting, which I used to enjoy a great deal, because I just don't have enough time to do it all since I took up biking and fitness walking.
Perhaps some volunteer work in the community would be something to do if anyone has extra time? Animal shelters, nursing homes, hospices, food pantries, schools, adult education programs, churches, meals on wheels, all these places are struggling and would be thrilled to get a few precious hours of help from a willing soul.

[Thorn]

Instead of biking? Oh, I've been shoveling snow and more snow and then more snow Building up strong arms and back. Looking out the window at great big lake effect-sized flakes...I'll be out for a second and maybe third time today.

Will winter ever end? Nope...got a nice new bike designed for riding on clear, winter roads (wet, but snowless) and the roads haven't been clear since it came home. And, spring will never come....the shop is slowing building up a new Waterford that can't be ridden until late spring. So, no, I don't think the winter will end

But spare time? Nope. I know of no such thing.

[mimitabby]

gosh, Thorn, where do YOU live?
I've been doing more watercolors, socializing kittens, and catching up on household stuff.
I'm also going to a spin class 2-3 times a week, which beats riding on a trainer in the basement.

[limewave]

Riding the trainer.

Our weekly women's ride has switched over to a weekly hiking group. A few more inches of snow and we'll be a snow shoeing/cross country ski group.

And I signed up for a yoga class

[Thorn]

I live in Wisconsin, Mimi (20 minutes from Waterford)...right now the standing joke is "well, it didn't snow yesterday so today we'll have snow". Can't complain too much--at least we haven't gotten any 12" dumps of snow, but we get enough about every other day that the roads are not getting down to pavement except in the drive lanes. And, it is enough you have to shovel.

We've been in our house for about 15 years...this is looking like it is going to beat out our snowiest winter. Most people don't remember trivial details like that, but since I refuse to buy a snow blower, I can pretty much tell you how deep the drifts at the edges of the driveway were each year. I'm surprised how tall they are given that our biggest single snow fall this year was only 4-5".

[northstar]

Riding on the trainer. Jogging outside. Begging my DH for snowshoes for Xmas.

Oh, and eating a lot.

[mimitabby]

wow, Thorn, according to this map, Wisconsin is the snowiest state!


http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/SnowDepth.html

[short cut sally]

Becoming more and more inactive as the days go on. I hate it. It's my own fault. I procrastinate awful. I eat more. I get lazier and lazier. My clothes are getting tighter. I've bailed out on trying to lose weight, And this is just the beginning of winter. I've decorated though, haven't done that in a couple of years. Have decorated the tree now twice-(have posted a thread about my cat and the destruction of my tree, he's managed to do that another time)! I can't bring myself to ride that stationary bike that I thought was really great up until I realized what a bike should fit like, and I don't have a trainer or rollers. It indeed is going to be a long winter. I wish we would get some snow so at least I could x-c ski or something. Nothing but rain or sleet or ice. YUCK.

[Geonz]

The riding is taking longer - studded tires and the caution in our yuck (which isn't *that* yukky - we've dodged the worst of it) - but I'm still cycling. That's how I get to work.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Becoming more and more inactive as the days go on. I hate it. It's my own fault. I procrastinate awful. I eat more. I get lazier and lazier. My clothes are getting tighter. I've bailed out on trying to lose weight, And this is just the beginning of winter. I've decorated though, haven't done that in a couple of years. Have decorated the tree now twice-(have posted a thread about my cat and the destruction of my tree, he's managed to do that another time)! I can't bring myself to ride that stationary bike that I thought was really great up until I realized what a bike should fit like, and I don't have a trainer or rollers. It indeed is going to be a long winter. I wish we would get some snow so at least I could x-c ski or something. Nothing but rain or sleet or ice. YUCK.

Shelly, If i lived closer to you I would take you on my 3 mile brisk walk around the town where I live. Even when it's cold and grey and drizzly, I'll bundle up and get my lazy butt out of the house and go for a walk. Do you have any friends or acquaintances that you could set up walking dates with? It's very motivating and fun to have someone to walk with.

[invsblwmn]

Been off the bike since a little accident on 9/26, but I am getting better. Starting outpatient therapy tomorrow! Finally out of the house every so often. Can't wait to be able to get my leg over the bar and get on the trainer in a couple of months. Enjoy each day you have, it is all that we are guaranteed.

[Starfish]

Pass the time? Wow, I wish that was the issue!

Right now instead of riding, I'm mostly doing the gym. These days, mostly cardio circuits...15 minutes each on the bike, elliptical, cross trainer, and rowing machine...as many circuits as needed for the scheduled time frame. Also abs & back, which helped a LOT last year.

Unfortunately, I don't currently have a 4WD, or I would be up snowshoeing and X-country skiing a lot more.

[elk]

I'm liking riding in the cold..layers of wool and a wind cutting jacket, a buff, gloves and I'm happy. I take my big dog trotting for about a mile a day on the bike and I walk her 2 miles a day. AM and PM.
She's my personal trainer.

Of course I do live in a rather temperate zone. 30-45 degrees, overcast, drizzle or flurries...If it's RAINING hard...I just do the walks.

By now I' get it that I'll feel ALOT better about lying in bed reading all day if I've gotten out and MOVED...that's the bottom line. It's just the getting out the door part that's hard...