THE MAKING OF NOPINZ
We think it’s time for the bookies to stop taking bets on ‘pingdemic’ entering the Oxford Dictionary in 2022. It’s July and not one but two of my children have had the isolation ping. Essentially, it’s a ping for me as well, 18 days of being homebound in the middle of the tri season. Farewell Eton’s Castle to Coast Triathlon, hello the paddling pool and the dusty turbo trainer.
The problem, aside from my failure to ever commit to turbo training no matter how many Zwift trials I’ve started, is the temperature is nudging 34°C and my breeze-starved patio is closer to Dante’s Inferno than Dorney Lake. Enter the SubZero range from Nopinz.
The Devon-based brand has form in ‘why hasn’t this been done before?’ moments when its race number pockets arrived in 2014. The SubZero range mirrors this simple yet effective approach to a common endurance sport problem. Namely, how do you remain at an optimum temperature on the turbo when a cooling fan just won’t suffice?
While many brands have created indoor clothing
