the guy factor

[mimitabby]

Yesterday we planned a ride in the earlly afternoon, despite the fact that it was getting warm fast. (temperature reached 85 degrees that afternoon)

When discussing the ride, i suggested the ride be shorter, up to 20 miles I said because we had just done a really fast paced (for me) ride the day before.

dh came up with 25 miles, including a bunch of hills. normally hills don't scare me too much but i was stiff and sore from the day before and did i say it was getting warm out?
we left the house at 130pm, when it was already quite warm and the rays of the sun rather piercing. He changed the itinerary with choices for me to make,
i made the one on the nicest roads and also sort of flattish.
We went along at a great clip right off the bat, we did almost 2 miles at 19mph on a road where cars go really fast (above 60, speedlimit i think is 50)
but on weekends, it is almost abandoned. I still wanted off there fast. by the time we got off the highway onto the bike trail (about 5 miles) i was feeling a bit peaked, so when dh said, hey your blinking light isn't on i stopped in the shade and turned it on. (got off bike)
at mile 11 I took advantage of a bathroom, I was so hot. all of me was wet, and I put my wrists under the faucet and ran cold(ish) water on them
and washed my face. While i did this, dh was doing laps around the park we were in. (he ended up with 1.5 more miles than me!)
We ended up riding 24 miles, and I took a cople more mini breaks in the shade.
He was rather uptight about all my stops, but when my face looks like a beet
and it's not sunburn, it seems like a signal for me to slow down!
(we did slow down, but probably not enough)
well,after all that fussing, when we got to my mother's house, who do you suppose it was that reclined and was half asleep for the next two hours?
ME? no.. HIM.
So here i was feeling guilty because i was not fast enough; and taking breaks, ( "holding him back" ) and he's the one horizontal and wasted.
When we got there, i suggested that he COULD go on and ride another 20 miles... he didn't want to for some reason!

[DebW]

Well, there are always solo rides...

[mimitabby]

I didn't mean to say his company wasn't welcomed, (heck, he has a map in his head!)
I just meant, they act like it's never too hot, too high, too fast or too hard.
Why can't they just be honest with themselves?
(on the other hand, if it's cold and rainy; he wimps out faster than i do!)

[Geonz]

Right, it's that perception thing.

I do believe it's embedded pretty deeply in the wiring and has nothing to do with logic, reasoning and maybe even experience.

So they need us to keep 'em from going too
far... and we need them to push when we need to :-)

[mimitabby]

Right, it's that perception thing.

I do believe it's embedded pretty deeply in the wiring and has nothing to do with logic, reasoning and maybe even experience.

So they need us to keep 'em from going too
far... and we need them to push when we need to :-)

Geonz, i think you're right. although a part of me wanted to ride yesterday (and i knew i needed to) left to my own devices, i would have just wasted time until it was too late to ride and i could just drive instead..because wahhhhhhhh i was too hot.

[caligurl]

. (temperature reached 85 degrees that afternoon)

reached? our mornings start at 85 and go up from there!

[Cassandra_Cain]

I didn't mean to say his company wasn't welcomed, (heck, he has a map in his head!)
I just meant, they act like it's never too hot, too high, too fast or too hard.
Why can't they just be honest with themselves?
(on the other hand, if it's cold and rainy; he wimps out faster than i do!)

It must be the testosterone....you know, never lost, never hot, never slow, er, well until they get sick. Then it is pure waaaahhhh

[mimitabby]

reached? our mornings start at 85 and go up from there!

oh, i'm sorry i forgot to put in the disclaimer about how here in Seattle most of us say it is a hot day if the temperature climbs above 75!

so for us, 85 is BROILING.

[caligurl]

oh, i'm sorry i forgot to put in the disclaimer about how here in Seattle most of us say it is a hot day if the temperature climbs above 75!

so for us, 85 is BROILING.

lol! ok! disclaimer noted!

[caligurl]

..........well until they get sick. Then it is pure waaaahhhh

[Crankin]

Well, my husband does his fair share of complaining and we often say we have been married so long, we both wimp out and/or complain about the same conditions before we know the other one feels the same way. But, he can deal with riding in the heat better than me. I've really acclimated myself to it much more this year, but it does take more out of you. We both don't like riding in very cold weather and sometimes make big plans to go out in the late fall or early season and scrap them for less mileage or doing another outdoor activity where wind chill isn't so much of a factor. His limit used to be 28 and now it's about the same as mine, around 40. We do mountain bike in temps down to the 30s, since I, at least am not going very fast!

[mimitabby]

. His limit used to be 28 and now it's about the same as mine, around 40. We do mountain bike in temps down to the 30s, since I, at least am not going very fast!

do you mean, a wind chill of 28???????

[chickwhorips]

It must be the testosterone....you know, never lost, never hot, never slow, er, well until they get sick. Then it is pure waaaahhhh

maybe he had a little extra in his breakfast.

[bikerbarb]

My situation is very different. I've worked on turning my husband into a biker.

Last year we were biking in Vermont and after climbing a rather long hill, I was waiting at the top for him and saw another woman crest the hill from the other side and stop as well. Then, after a while a man caught up to join her...and then my husband caught up to join me. We never spoke, but it occurred to me that it really ran against stereotype.

He got a new bike this year, a nice, lightweight road bike. He's done pretty well so far, though he did end up in the hospital on one ride at mile 57 of a metric century. It was hot and the rest stops were pathetic. Kept him overnight, rehydrated him by i.v. and then get this--gave him a stress test the next day!

Last week we climbed to Independence Pass at 12,026 feet out of Aspen Colorado. He has to show everyone the pictures, he's so amazed with himself. I just smile.

[KSH]

HA! HA! He wore himself out!

Yea, around here... Dallas, TX, I have been riding in 100F degree weather for about 2 months now... I know what heat does to a person! Gotta take a nap after my rides (I typically do 30-50 miles a ride).