November 2010. The snow. The cold. The rain. The ice. The dark. The salt. All things that would deter even the hardest, most determined cyclists. Now, I like to think I'm a pretty hardy bloke but I'm also not stupid. There was no way I was about to ride £1000 of 3 month old shiny metal through snow, ice and grit. So the shiny bike was retired for the winter and I was back on the rusty hack bike for the commute.
Although I did cycle to work every day throughout the winter of 2010-2011, the training really suffered. Deciding to do something about it, I bought a turbo trainer in the run up to Christmas. I managed to get a bargain on a Tacx Satori Stripes Ltd Ed trainer, picking it up for around £140. It proved very useful in helping to lose some of the excess weight gained by beer, turkey and boxes of Quality Street big enough to sink a battleship.
Although the turbo trainer proved useful, I did and still do, find staying in one place pretty tedious.
As the end of January approached, I hoped the weather would clear soon....
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