Tired of the 100 degree + days!

[PinkBike]

just checkin in with the extreme heat discussion.
last week riding in to work (at 2 in the afternoon) it was what i call "scary hot." i think it may have been 114. when you can't get enough O2 its so dry and hot. you get chills. the air burns on your legs. it is truly like sticking your head in an oven.

but i for one just love it.

my commute is 6 miles, only about 25 minutes.
i call them my "tanning rides."
my coworkers call them my "melanoma rides."

then you wait next to a car at a stop light and feel the heat from their engine compounded by their a/c running at full bore. whoa.

i think we're just paying for such a mild winter - and even june.

[shootingstar]

just checkin in with the extreme heat discussion.
last week riding in to work (at 2 in the afternoon) it was what i call "scary hot." i think it may have been 114. when you can't get enough O2 its so dry and hot. you get chills. the air burns on your legs. it is truly like sticking your head in an oven.

but i for one just love it.

But ask yourself, if you would be saying the same thing 10 years from now, meaning loving such high extreme dry heat and sun.

[sundial]

Feels like it. I did do 62 miles on the 12th but otherwise it is just so dang hot. I really have no motivation for it.

I hear ya! I've cut my rides short for now--nothing over 30 miles. I learned that in high humidity things can turn ugly fast! Last season I was on a long ride and felt my speeds decreasing, my heartrate climbing, temps in the mid 90's and then had a tire blow. I knew I needed to get off the road fast and into the air conditioning and got a ride back to the car. Sometimes having plenty of fluids just isn't enough. Mother nature can be so brutal.

[Kano]

just checkin in with the extreme heat discussion.
last week riding in to work (at 2 in the afternoon) it was what i call "scary hot." i think it may have been 114. when you can't get enough O2 its so dry and hot. you get chills. the air burns on your legs. it is truly like sticking your head in an oven.

but i for one just love it.

But ask yourself, if you would be saying the same thing 10 years from now, meaning loving such high extreme dry heat and sun.

Not Pink, but...

Twelve springs ago, we were transplanted from Minnesota to Idaho. Northern tier still, and you wouldn't think the climate would be so different. We do have seasons, snow in winter, heat in summer -- plenty of it! The primary difference -- it's much hotter and drier in summer, and winter is more mild. When we got here, I found I liked the extreme, dry heat, and all the sunshine.

A dozen summers later, yup, I can still say I love it. You learn how to live in it -- and quite honestly, I find it lots easier than the "not the heat it's the humidity" back in Minnesota! That stuff is just NASty!

Karen in Boise

[Crankin]

I'm sorry, 115 is 115. Or 100 is 100 for that matter. No temperatures that any human being should be outside in, let alone exerting themselves in. Humidity is irrelevant. I don't like humidity, either, but, I prefer a more moderate temperature, short bouts of high humidity, a couple of heat waves, and change.
Mostly, I don't have to plan my riding around the temperature, only the chance of rain.
In the winter, I just put my wool on and get outside to snow shoe or x country ski! Again, we don't have the extreme humidity for 3 months, below zero temps for months, or many days above 90 degrees. No tornadoes, either. Yes, the weather here is changeable and weird at times, but that's what I like. It grates on my nerves to hear people complaining about the weather, as most New Englanders seem to do.
Hey, it's just my opinion, but then, I was one who got SAD from endless days of eternal sunshine and unbearable high temperatures.

[Aggie_Ama]

I definitely notice a difference in our lower humidity days and higher humidity days were the temps are the same. When the humidity is high it reminds me of trying to exert myself at altitude, you can't breath as well. Plus your sweat doesn't cool you are well because it doesn't evaporate as much. I agree both 100 degrees with humidity and without are bad but I still feel (and DH has said the same) it is harder when the humidity starts getting high.

As a native Texan I used to chuckle at people complaining about the heat but the past two summers it has worn on me. I like having mild winters but we have had record hot summers the past two years and it does make even those of us who love Texas whine.

36 days of 100+ and it isn't even August yet, last year we had a close to record at 50 days. Sometimes we pay for our 300 rain free days a year.