Watch Out-Jennifer Is Clipless!

[Lise]

I am going out in this heat today and taking my camelBak-I would rather look dorky then become dehydrated.

Have a great time. Remember to pack it with ice before you pour in the water. Take something with electrolytes, too, some salt, like one of the many gatorade/cliff shot/sport bean things out there. Let us know how it goes!

[Bikingmomof3]

Lise,
Love my CamelBak and thank you for the ice suggestion. I was able to tolerate the heat because I had so much ice water handy.

[Kano]

Lise,
Love my CamelBak and thank you for the ice suggestion. I was able to tolerate the heat because I had so much ice water handy.

Yes, but how did you do with your new pedals??????

Have you been out and about with them yet, or have you still been keeping cool indoors? Do you love them????

Here in the high desert, the sweat doesn't catch up with us until we get home. When you "wetlanders" are out riding in the humidity, is sweat a bigger problem than for me????

Thirst still happens on a grand scale -- DH says he doesn't start sweating til we get home, one just doesn't notice it, since the air is so dry, it just sucks the sweat right off you!

Karen in Boise

[Bikingmomof3]

Karen,

I lived in Wyoming for 6 years. I really miss dry heat. Here sweat begins by just being. You do not need to even exert yourself. The humidity and dewpoint have been beastly high. In Wyoming my hair would be dry within 5 minutes of me hopping out of the shower, here it will stay wet for hours. I know many like the humidity, to me it is very oppressive. You know how a wickedly cold day (say -20-gosh I miss those temps) suck the air from your lungs? Well, high humidity does the same thing only in a not as nice way. Or at least it does to me.

Yes, I can indeed clip in and out of my pedals while riding. I am not comfortable yet, but i am getting there. Part of me knows I will be fine, the other part of me fears losing half my skin on the road. I begin riding with my right foot and always clip the left foot first when stopping. That little system appears to work for me.

I will go out again this evening.

[Kano]

Karen,

I lived in Wyoming for 6 years. I really miss dry heat. Here sweat begins by just being. You do not need to even exert yourself. The humidity and dewpoint have been beastly high. In Wyoming my hair would be dry within 5 minutes of me hopping out of the shower, here it will stay wet for hours. I know many like the humidity, to me it is very oppressive. You know how a wickedly cold day (say -20-gosh I miss those temps) suck the air from your lungs? Well, high humidity does the same thing only in a not as nice way. Or at least it does to me.

I remember! Grew up in Minnesota, and it's not that your hair stays wet for hours, it's the sweat keeps rewetting it! Skin too! At least that's my theory! First time we went back to Minnesota, I recall getting off the plane and feeling like we'd stepped into a steam room with duck tape on our mouths and our noses pinched as we tried to breathe!

Yes, I can indeed clip in and out of my pedals while riding. I am not comfortable yet, but i am getting there. Part of me knows I will be fine, the other part of me fears losing half my skin on the road. I begin riding with my right foot and always clip the left foot first when stopping. That little system appears to work for me.

I will go out again this evening.

Same thing's working for me, Jennifer, and I am planning to go out too: they vacuumed up the chips that have been all over the neighborhood, so the new chipseal stuff isn't quite as dangerous tonight, and once I eat something, I'll have plenty of energy for a nice ride! (think I can get DH out of his chair????)

Karen