Quote Originally Posted by mimitabby View Post
Good grief, how do you people DO it?
It's hard to ride in the heat!! will i ever get over the puffing and red face and losing 3 gallons of fluid every time I ride 5 miles?
total for the day: 15 miles.
I think it's even harder on us this year than usual in the PNW , because there wasn't really a ramp-up to the warmer weather. It's like someone flipped a switch and we went from cool gray early spring to sunny hot summer practically overnight, and no one is acclimated.

I can't even stand the thought of getting on my bike right now. Mostly because I don't want to have to climb the hill to get home at the end of my ride. (It's ok, y'all can call me a wimp. The heat has always just destroyed me.)