But can you be well acclimated to both heat & cold at the same time? I don’t know, but guess so if you spend a lot of time outdoors or anywhere there are large temperature shifts.
I cycle to work in cold temps, and use the steam-room too; will that make me Universal Soldier?
I wondered that myself a bit tbh, my guessing is that your body would have an easier time cooling so not working as hard, unless it’s really cold and it’s trying to keep warm!
You mean it’ll be worse than the last 5 months??
I’ve been out on my bike once this year, not happy!
Cold acclimatization I think just comes from increasing your BMR, you probably do not want that whilst training for endurance activities since it will just place even higher demands on getting calories into the body.
Ultimately I guess, a lot of being able to cope with hot/cold environments just comes from experience, common sense and moral fibre!
Reminds me of this…
“Shorter” swim this morning
3000m (with 3-5 sec gaps per 500m to press the lap button twice and adjust goggles)
Got a fraction quicker on each 500m, but all still with 10 seconds of each other
I’m pretty good in both but definitely have a reduced tolerance for the very cold since all the operations.
Redeemed myself today with a 10km treadmill run at 5.15.
Yes, my hands do suffer a bit more than they used to, in the cold.
With Cotswold 113 looming on the horizon, I’ve started tri training in earnest for the first time in a couple of years this past month. Previous couple of years have been TT’ing and doing track athletics - sprints and jumps - and the odd swim but had a run niggle late summer so basically took Sep–Dec off.
Anyways, I’m feeling very refreshed and invigorated after a solid if unspectacular Feb. Trained all but 4 days, with 2-3 easy runs, 2/3 turbo/wattbike workouts, 1/2 swims a week. Loving being back running, and still no niggles; been super cautious on that and will do nothing quick until I’ve had a few back to back 25 mile weeks. Looking forward to TT season starting soon, and hopefully some better weather to get out and do some longer rides. 50 mile TT end of April will be a key marker event.
EDIT: using training peaks for the first time, CTL up from 27 to 40, I’d expect that will go higher as the run volume ramps up. Still seems very low compared to some of the figures knocking around on here! It’s not seemingly counting swim in that though
Despite yesterday’s crapathon, and my run just now being an easy recovery run, i felt as fresh as a daisy! Weird.
Was also enjoying running along in a bit of sunshine in just shorts and tshirt … and then with 1 km to go the wind picked up and i got absolutely dumped on with a blimmin freezing shower! Drenched to the bone and shivering cold. All in the space of 5 mins. Kind of spoiled things a bit!
Good to see you back on it @PhilleusPhogg, i’ve noticed your runs becoming more frequent and consistent, hopefully everything holds itself together now!
odd isn’t it… went out for a gentle spin on my bike to try and shake off this damned head cold that has layed me low for 2 days, and felt great… rode up a local hill and smashed my all time 1min power average by 20W… 
It’ll take as much as 60 days to stabilise to a meaningful comparable number as it uses a rolling calculation, so thinks you’ve been sat on the sofa prior to using it… 
Amongst other things, despite a crick in my neck I managed a pretty easy 25:43 1500m full stroke.
2km morning swim, 135km IMUK bike, 5km run off the bike.
That’ll do.
A day straight out of the @Matthew_Spooner playbook
But I swam 
mine was in Playa Bolton.
A balmy 2 degrees, with snow on the tops.
Is that what you call lolz 
If you don’t laugh on that course, you’ll cry, so yeah - I DID IT FOR THE LOLZ
