Winter Blues do you suffer ?

Mondays I do speed intervals, Wednesdays endurance intervals, Fridays are a hard distance session, Tuesday/Thursday and some Saturdays are slow steady state sessions of 10-14km. Usually works out about 50-60km a week
 
Street said:
Mondays I do speed intervals, Wednesdays endurance intervals, Fridays are a hard distance session, Tuesday/Thursday and some Saturdays are slow steady state sessions of 10-14km. Usually works out about 50-60km a week
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How long per session in minutes? Are you mega fit?
 
Most sessions are around an hour or less including warm up/cool down. I can do a sub 7min 2km (just) so am reasonably fit for a lightweight.
 
It helps that I actually enjoy it and I've made it part of my routine. I also always need a target to aim for otherwise I think I'd stop. In the summer I was off to the alps so was keeping my fitness up for that, now I'm aiming for a race in February. I still really struggle for motivation in the mornings during the winter months though, so vit D, Hue lights and the radio coming on help me not just hibernate!
 
Street said:
It helps that I actually enjoy it and I've made it part of my routine. I also always need a target to aim for otherwise I think I'd stop. In the summer I was off to the alps so was keeping my fitness up for that, now I'm aiming for a race in February. I still really struggle for motivation in the mornings during the winter months though, so vit D, Hue lights and the radio coming on help me not just hibernate!
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Think I’ll buy a concept2...best place to buy one ?
 
LuckyBenski said:
Agreed. I reckon if I could drag myself into exercise every morning I'd be less depressed :)
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10 minutes of good pushing will be enough to make a difference. 1 minute slow warm up, 2 minutes steadily getting faster every 30 seconds, then drop down to a slow go for 1 minute. another 2 minutes of push, 1 minute slow, 2 more minutes of your max push and then final minute slow cool down and you're done. will feel good and not be much of your day lost.
 
easyrider said:
Think I’ll buy a concept2...best place to buy one ?
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I ended up buying a new one direct from them. I looked around eBay for ages but they were all either abused ex gym machines or fairly old and the price they went for wasn't much off the price of a brand new one.
 
Forgot to mention earlier that I bought a turbo trainer last Xmas, effectively turning my road bike into an indoor exercise bike. It enabled me to keep training/exercising on the bike during the prolong Beast Of The East winter, but it gave me very little help with combating the SAD fatigue, compared to riding outdoors. I coped with winter 2017 far better with the outdoor riding of ~60mins most days, but winter 2018 was a real struggle and the woolly feel lasted well into June, due to a lack of recreational rides from January until April.

I've yet to use the turbo trainer this autumn, but depending upon the weather, I intend to strike a much better balance of gentle recreational rides outdoors and power training indoors to hopefully make getting through this winter far easier than last.
 
Street said:
I ended up buying a new one direct from them. I looked around eBay for ages but they were all either abused ex gym machines or fairly old and the price they went for wasn't much off the price of a brand new one.
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Can get one on interest free for 12 months. Might just do that :)
 
I've not really noticed it but then I've not particularly analysed it either (i.e. tried to identify if my mood is any different).

I tend to get stressed/feeling down at Christmas but that's more to do with family history than the weather, I also dislike snow because it makes it very difficult for me to see (cataracts) and walk around safely.

I guess I do notice the converse a bit, e.g. when the clocks go forward and it becomes light when getting home from work, that feels like a bit of a win, in contrast to winter when I leave the office knowing I've got a couple hours in the dark before getting home.
 
We don't have winter in Australia. We just have a brief period during which the skin cancer rate drops by ~2%.
 
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