There’s plenty of room inside the bar mitts. That bike is SRAM Rival, electronic shifting. It’s just a tap of a button.
However, I also have a Shimano 105 mechanical shifting road bike. There is still plenty of room inside for the travel of the levers.
Except for my hands, I don’t have much trouble keeping warm. Something about the cold air, washing over my hands. The bar mitts have been a great addition.
The same as the last three weekends its forecast to be wet after a nice work week, fortunately I was working at home today and was able to escape for some Vitamin D 
Bald -1 was originally in my plan but I used alternates to shorten it from 60minutes to 45minutes. I still tend to ride 60mins but that gives me time to get to and get the workout done on roads which are more conducive to workouts, whilst not exceeding my lunch hour too much. The alternates function gave me Neige. Ive not got a PM meter on my commuter/winter bike but I’ve ordered Favero RS2’s on a Black Friday deal so it may have in future on days like today
Down the London Road cyclepath to Yaxley (where I started the workout). The workout went down Holme Road (to Holme funny enough) before doing a loop on the broken road around old Connington Airfield (now Peterborough Business Airport, a big name for what is a little private airfield). Before heading up the Old A1 to Norman Cross to finish. I was then able to take the cycle way all the way home and stay in the recovery HR zone. There was a gap up by Yaxley which meant you had to go on the busy and fast A15 (not ideal for staying in zone, but they’re building new houses with a good quality cycle path through it. Its not exactly direct so most of the traffic goes straight to Yaxley but it suits for a chilled-out cooldown 
Aah, my mistake. I totally misread. Here I thought your hands were on the outside of the mitts for a bit of bump-softening.
To the track for Disaster -1
Then up to the Domain for parkrun
Cloudy early but then the sun came out. Was nice on the bike but cooked a number of parkrunners. 
Edit to add: Sauce for Strava is wigging out because I haven’t put my weight in. Means it’s saying my run is worth infinity donuts. 
You ran three 7:29 miles immediately after doing Disaster-1? If so
Haha, thanks. But I had an extended cooldown plus 15 mins stationary at the start line. Also I think I didn’t properly trash myself on Disaster like I should’ve. 
The mountain was calling
And today was the first truly clear & dry day in the last six weeks in which I wasn’t
So I answered
With my scheduled workout, Monitor +3
The climb was longer than the workout so I finished it out at low Z2, & got my second-fastest time on strava for the climb. (My fastest time was when I did Monitor +5 & almost ran out of hill.)
Upon summiting I said hi to some rocks & some fine ozothamnus ledifolius specimens
Caught a bit of traffic on the way down. Everyone else not at work seemed to think it was a nice day too, fancy that! Popped a couple of sprints: one to dispose of some traffic, another to avoid being disposed of by traffic. 
As a result I got some totally unplanned power PRs in the 8-to-13-second range.
Looking very summery! 
Always a good hike!
2026 thread?
Looks like a few of us have been busy. Myself included. You’re welcome to start a new thread. Just copy & adapt some of the text from the first post. 
