In the winter I try to get outside for a ride when we get a warm day – over 45 degrees F works for me.  But most of the winter in New Jersey it is too damn cold to ride outdoors and I have nasty cycling withdrawal symptoms.  My cure is to suffer indoors with the bike on a trainer watching crazy training videos from The Sufferfest with loud music to distract me from the misery.  Once a week I go to a spin class at 3Sixty Cycling Studio in Montclair.  I only go to ones taught by Vince Carr.  He plays great music and doesn’t get into all sorts of silly moves on the bike – more like what a road rider would like.

Here is a gigapan of me on (and off) my bike on the trainer in the library of my house.  You can scroll around and zoom in on the image.

The torture chamber