In reply to UKC Articles:
Noooooo!
The queues are bad enough as it is.
I'm a crap rock climber who feels good because he can almost mix it with the B team in winter. Articles like this will wreck my ego!
To add to Andy's advice; learn to suffer, winter road cycling is great for this. Go out with your local club on their winter training loops, imporved fitness, weightloss and most importantly suffering threshold raised