It is official, an Arctic “weather event” is on its way to Atlanta; finally all of this cold air is going to produce a little winter precipitation, or at least that is what the newscasters are getting everybody amped up for. The best thing about all this cold weather is that today it forced me inside on the trainer for about an hour and a half instead of getting out on the road. Why is this good? Because for once I could do a reasonable “blue zone” (aerobic) training ride – something I am never able to do outdoors on the road. I don’t know what it is, but whenever I am running or swimming, it always seems easy enough to do a specific planned workout, whether easy or hard. but on the bike, all I ever do is hammer, hammer, hammer. I go too hard on my easy days, and probably not hard enough on my hard days – because let’s face it, all of my bike days are hard. So today since it was so cold (22 degrees – I don’t ride under 28) I popped in a Spinervals DVD and did a nice one-and-a-half-hour long sub-lactic threshold workout. Awesome – I gotta do that more often. There will be time enough to hammer next time I go out chasing after Todd.