How Climate Change Affects Your Winter Sports
Rough Kentucky Winter Cycling
As a competitive cyclist from Louisville, Ky., Samuel Hartman depends on winter weather for training in order to build up “low-end cardiovascular endurance.” He said the yo-yo effect of sporadic warm days during winter can be chaos for the body as it tries to adjust.
“Just as the body gets used to riding in 40-degree weather, it switches to 70-degree weather … it throws the body, and mind, out of whack.”
Hartman also said that the warm/cold weather is horrible for biking trails. “[It] creates a ‘freeze/thaw’ effect that allows the trails to get super muddy during the day. Winter riding should be on frozen trails, and this rarely happens anymore."