{"id":4172,"date":"2013-03-21T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2020-07-10T11:02:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T18:02:35","slug":"cycling-weight-loss-healthier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/averagejoecyclist.com\/cycling-weight-loss-healthier\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cycling in Winter Helped me Lose Weight and Get Healthier – the Cost of Cycling Weight Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

The High Cost of Winter Cycling – AND the priceless Health Value of Cycling Weight Loss and Fitness<\/h3>\n

I did it!\u00a0 I reached the 2,500 km of cycling mark this past week<\/strong>.\u00a0I have cycled this winter through some of the foulest rain storms ever, but hey, in Vancouver if you don\u2019t do it in the rain, then you just don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

But becoming a winter cyclist<\/strong> was quite a learning process. It went something like this.<\/p>\n

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  1. Get caught in bad weather without proper gear<\/li>\n
  2. Arrive home wet to the skin and freezing, with numb hands<\/li>\n
  3. Start the expensive process of buying proper winter cycling gear<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    First I hit a sale and bought two pairs of gloves \u2013 one Louis Garneau pair and one Axiom pair.\u00a0I soon discovered that no matter how much they cost, and what they say on the packaging, there is no such thing as completely waterproof cycling gloves<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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