New Mexico here:
my Preference is to hike the mountains between say noon and 3:00 coz the temps are up in the upper 90s - 100s and there aren't as many people around. I did all my centuries in the summer coz - like Kaybee - when the temps drop below 60 I'm cold. I'll take the heat ANY day over cold....course it's a "dry" heat!!
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09-10-2007, 10:58 AM #1
I love headwinds! Really?
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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming: "Yeah Baby! What a Ride!"
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09-10-2007, 11:39 AM #2
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Dh and I didn't have much choice in doing or final training long ride in weather that was as obscene as it gets. We had a century a week away and needed to get in at least 65 miles. We left at 6:45 a.m and it was already miserable out. Humid as heck. Luckily, the humidity got "slightly" better as the clouds dissipated, but by the time we got home 67 miles later at 12:30, the temps were up to about 108.
Horrid. Yet ... I can say I did it and survived! Poured TONS of water on the head and all over my body throughout the ride which REALLY helps. I would typically avoid riding in that type of weather if I had any choice, but this was the only day we could do it and I so wanted to ensure myself that I was as ready as I could be for my first century. What a blessing it was to do that century in the most perfectly beautiful weather ever!!! 65 at the start along the coast of Southern California.
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