coffee stop<\/a>. \u00a0Maybe you've been meaning to tackle that beastly local climb that makes you wish for death every pedal stroke, but pays out with a million dollar view from the top. \u00a0Perhaps you've always wanted to turn down that dirt road on your regular training loop but it's never been in the daily workout plan. \u00a0Or maybe you'll finally have a chance to lay down the power meter and spend some time cruising along the rail trail with your family. \u00a0Leave the gel flask at home, forget the high octane energy drink and switch from your little pocketed tool kit to a saddle bag. \u00a0Fill your pockets with a camera, a map of the local roads and a sense of adventure, plan to wander for a while but without any specific distance or time in mind. \u00a0No matter what your destination, the goal should be fun, not fitness.<\/p>\nAll too often, between power numbers and intervals, build cycles and the Tuesday Night World Championships, we can lose sight of what it means to ride a bike. \u00a0While increasing fitness is motivational and fun in itself, nothing quite beats being able to let it all go, lift your head and take a good look around. \u00a0You'll probably be surprised at the wonders you'll observe, and you never know what you find. \u00a0Maybe you'll find a few new roads to incorporate into your regular training, maybe you'll snap that picture that you frame and hang on your wall, or maybe you just get a few hours of quality time with your family. \u00a0Whatever it may be, it'll be memorable and without thinking you'll maintain the fitness you worked so hard for and refresh your mind.<\/p>\n
Thoughts? \u00a0Comments? \u00a0Get the conversation started below.<\/p>\n
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Since the holidays are here and the season has ended, most of us have put our training season to bed. \u00a0We’re tired, we’re busy with holiday commitments and we’re not really interested in fighting freezing temperatures and precipitation to get a ride in. \u00a0On the other hand, we’re not really interested in setting up the indoor trainer, either. \u00a0So we take advantage of the warm days when we can, and we go out and ride, ignoring training, ignoring goals and ignoring all our power, heart rate and speed metrics. \u00a0We go out and cruise along, sightseeing, taking advantage of this rare opportunity to put in “garbage miles.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,49,21],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[3328,3327,402,3326,788,2575,3234,3233,3322,377,302,313,3323,3320,3325,3324,272,268,982,3321],"wppr_data":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11015,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/11015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwind-coaching.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Since the holidays are here and the season has ended, most of us have put our training season to bed. \u00a0We're tired, we're busy with holiday commitments and we're not really interested in fighting freezing temperatures and precipitation to get a ride in. \u00a0On the other hand, we're not really interested in setting up the indoor trainer, either. \u00a0So we take advantage of the warm days when we can, and we go out and ride, ignoring training, ignoring goals and ignoring all our power, heart rate and speed metrics. \u00a0We go out and cruise along, sightseeing, taking advantage of this rare opportunity to put in “garbage miles.”<\/p>\n