Tired of the heat!!!!

[bentforlife]

I'm sick and tired of the heat!!!! The Dallas/Fort Worth area hit 107 yesterday and should do almost that today. That means we start the mornings off above 80 which quickly becomes 90 by 9AM and 100 by noon!! My DH will not let me move the bike inside(it's on a trainer right now, knee surgery recovery) so I haven't been able to get on it, I'm not heat tolerant at all. He has a good point, with a length of almost 6 feet, it is hard to find space for the bike(it's a RANS Stratus XL).

I'm praying for a quick end to this heat. Our water bill and eletricity bills are becoming outrageous!! We almost lost the lawn last year but decided to bite the bullet and keep it watered this year. DH is only cutting it every other week to keep it long so it doesn't lose water as fast. Our neighbors don't like it very much but it still meets city codes.

Is anyone else suffering in this heat wave? How are you coping?

I'm going to the gym right now and using their stationary recumbent but it's not the same.

Bring on fall weather, I'm more than ready!!!

Donna

[Geonz]

I actually used the AC yesterday. It's "only" gotten to, I think, 91 here - but nobody is accustomed to that. (It doesn't make me nauseous like your conditions will, but it ain't comfy.) Sleep doesn't happen too easily :-(

[KSH]

I hear ya!

100F is my limit. Anything over 100F, I'm not going outside to ride.

Last night and tonight... I will be sitting in a spin class to get some bike time.

The heat is outrageous!

[Tater]

Yup, it is hot here as well. On yesterday afternoon's commute home, I felt like I was riding in a blow dryer! But at least the nights cool down into the upper fifties and we can leave the windows open to suck in as much cool air as possible.

[pooks]

The nights cool down? I'm so jealous!

Monday night when I came home from teaching my class, it was 93 degrees at 10:30!

I was determined to get up early this morning and ride, but I slept so poorly last night all I did was go back to sleep. Now I'm awake and trying to convince myself to go put at least a couple of miles in on the bike, but it's hard to fathom.

Maybe after I finish my latte. It's going to be 90, though.

Yes, this heat is killing me.

Sigh.

[Kano]

Pooks -- yup, it tends to cool down a lot! 10:30 at night it may still be in the 80's but by morning, it's pretty much always below 70. On the other hand, when we get a 40+ degree change during the day, it heats up pretty quickly when the sun comes up! Once we hit 90 or so, though, things slow down, since there's usually not much more than 10-15 degrees to go!

That blow dryer effect, though -- it's amazing! Hot as can be, but it also DRIES us as we ride! I get a kick out of DH: he says he never starts sweating until we stop riding! A neat side effect of this dry heat is that much as I hate being hot, my body seems to love this climate for riding! Muscles and joints seem to really appreciate an afternoon ride, and I spend much less time "warming up" at the beginning of the ride!

Karen in Boise

[dobielover1]

I hear ya!

100F is my limit. Anything over 100F, I'm not going outside to ride.

Last night and tonight... I will be sitting in a spin class to get some bike time.

The heat is outrageous!

You ride at 100F? I'm in awe of you....anything over 80 or so, I'm done.

[oldbikah]

Even here in Maine it has been hot, hot, and humid as well, but today it was better. Yesterday I stupidly tried to do a 20 mile ride which involved a large, long hill and I cracked big time (I don't know exactly, but I think it was about 90 degrees and 80 humidity.) I got off the bike and could barely stand. ( Yes, I had plenty of water ) I was biking alone, but several friends happened along and rescued me! HOW does one do this at over 100???

[KSH]

You ride at 100F? I'm in awe of you....anything over 80 or so, I'm done.

Ah... well, you get use to it. Honestly, anything from 90 to 100... all feels the same.

Now, I REFUSE to ride in heat above 100 (I think RunningMommy does HOTTER!)... and it has been around 105 here the past 2 days. Hello spin bike in the gym!

[Kano]

What's neat about HOT here in Boise, and actually makes it possible to ride when it's a hunnert degrees or more is THIRTEEN percent humidity!

Now, when it's that DRY you have to have lots of water, and drink almost continually as you ride, but the good news is that you do NOT drip sweat! DH's story is you don't start sweating until you quit riding, but the truth is that you just dry so darned fast you don't notice it happening!

When you stop -- yup, you got it, it runs like standing in the shower!

All that said -- I'm not a native: I know humidity, and I hate it! (used to say, it's not the heat, it's the humidity back in Minnesota, and I'll tell you, I'm sure glad I don't have to live with BOTH!)

Karen in Boise

[mimitabby]

I'm sick and tired of the heat!!!!

I'm praying for a quick end to this heat. Our water bill and eletricity bills are becoming outrageous!! We almost lost the lawn last year but decided to bite the bullet and keep it watered this year. DH is only cutting it every other week to keep it long so it doesn't lose water as fast. Our neighbors don't like it very much but it still meets city codes.

Is anyone else suffering in this heat wave? How are you coping?

I'm going to the gym right now and using their stationary recumbent but it's not the same.

Bring on fall weather, I'm more than ready!!!

Donna

Take the lawn out, plant cactus? uses less water and won't wilt in the heat!

Sorry you can't ride, that must be a real bummer. But in the winter, you guys get a lot of nice riding weather right?

[Bikingmomof3]

I am finding it is not the heat that bothers me (which is odd, since I am originally from a cold climate), rather it is the humidity. It is so difficult to breathe. I have never lived anywhere with humidity like this. As soon as I walk out the door it is like hitting a wall of hot, moist air. Worse of all, my head sweats so badly each strand of hair pours water down my face and into my ears-yuck, I know. Any suggestions?

[Nanci]

I _love_ that wall of humidity when I leave the house. THere must be something wrong with me.

Got two inches of rain last night- nice!

[Bikingmomof3]

I _love_ that wall of humidity when I leave the house. THere must be something wrong with me.

Got two inches of rain last night- nice!

I have never met anyone who enjoys the wall of humidity. Now I can say I have. Why do you like it? How do you cope in it? It has not stopped me from riding. Sadly if I waited until it was not humid, I would never get on a bike. Oh, have I mentioned I have hated where I live for the past 4 years? I am very slowly coming to terms with the opressive humidity. How I miss the dry heat of Wyoming.

[emily_in_nc]

I was born and bred in the southeast, and the humidity bothers me more and more every year, most likely because I am an athlete now so am actually out in it (plus I garden). Hubby and I took a fantastic trip to the southwest US (my first time there) this past May, and I fell in love with the dry heat. Did that ever feel good! We did tons of hiking in six different national parks and a couple of state parks, and I rarely even noticed any sweat. Here, I drip from my face, nose, hair is completely soaked after jogging, hiking, or riding. Ick, ick, ick!

But we are all different: when I was waxing poetic about the dry heat of the southwest to a co-worker after my trip, he said that he didn't care for it all that much. He said whenever he'd been there (he goes to Vegas fairly often on business), he always knew he was home when he got off the plane at RDU (central NC) and felt that humid NC air. He loves it!

I will say, we have low humidity often in the spring, fall, and winter, and I love those days, but the summer, which is long enough as it is, is pretty much uniformly soggy. Like a tropical rainforest. Really hard to get motivated to do anything outdoors this time of year!

Emily