monday June 30th ride (whine)

[GLC1968]

yes, ma'am (hanging my head) I am serious. Isn't that pathetic?

Nah - it's ok. You are not alone!

DH and I joke about how everyone around us is moaning about the humidity. 50% humidity is not humid to us....at all. Try living in Florida in the summer where the humidity doesn't drop below 80% EVER. It's even sweltering in the middle of the night!!

I'm SOOO thankful that this odd PNW weather is happening while we are still somewhat adjusted to NC weather. It's not bothering us like it does everyone else. If this happens again next year, I'll be complaining right along beside you, Mimi!

Oh, and no one rode at lunch today. Usually, half the bikes on the rack disappear at lunch time - but today - mine was the only one to leave for the hour.

[Triskeliongirl]

Hmmm compared to the 100s of last week 95 felt pretty good today....

YOU GUYS ARE JUST WIMPS!!! Once you start moving you don't notice it anymore. But, I do like to jump in my pool when I get home.

[mimitabby]

I did drink plenty of water, thanks! and yes, Trisk, i won't deny I am a wimp. And daschund, sorry, I can't avoid the hills. Seattle is a city built on 5 hills. and I live on one of them.
I'm cooled off now. and tomorrow I will ride again, likely with similar results!

[GLC1968]

Oh, and in case anyone thinks we are too wimpy here in the PNW - it did top 100 degrees on Saturday in Portland. So it's not all cold and rainy around here!

[elk]

I'm with ya Mimi...We had a thunderstorm last night and I was thinking ahhh it'll wipe away all that humidity...so I went to take my big dog for a walk...

it was AWFUL...the sky was all green, the air was fetid and I felt like I was moving through soup....my dog agreed.

It puts me in THE foulest mood....and to top it off...we have MOSQUITOS!!! something we usually don't have to contend with so much.

I was about ready to scream...

I don't care what you Texans or FLoridians say....this is unbearable!!!! How can you stand it!!!

Cold and rainy is bliss compared to hot and rainy...ick!

[Zen]

it was AWFUL...the sky was all green, the air was fetid and I felt like I was moving through soup....my dog agreed.

I love it when it's like that...to walk outside at midnight and it's still warm?
to stand in the rain when it's 80-90 degrees out? Tropical bliss-ahhhhhhhh!

[7rider]

As the guys on the LBS's ride like to say whenever they hear whining..
WAH, WAH, WAHHHHH!!!!
As you know, mimitabby, I was in Seattle last week. With a bunch of folks from Maryland, Florida, and Louisiana. We know humidity. You don't have humidity. We didn't want to leave!
I invite you to join me on one of our famous "95/95" rides. That's 95 degrees, 95 percent humidity.
Today's ride home was a 80/80 ride. In the rain. Oh joy and rapture!

eta: See??? Zen knows....

[mimitabby]

As the guys on the LBS's ride like to say whenever they hear whining..
WAH, WAH, WAHHHHH!!!!
As you know, mimitabby, I was in Seattle last week. With a bunch of folks from Maryland, Florida, and Louisiana. We know humidity. You don't have humidity. We didn't want to leave!
I invite you to join me on one of our famous "95/95" rides. That's 95 degrees, 95 percent humidity.
Today's ride home was a 80/80 ride. In the rain. Oh joy and rapture!

eta: See??? Zen knows....

7, THAT's what I want to know. How come you can do that?
how come I can't????

[DDH]

I try to do my riding as early in the morning as I can, and it's already in the
80's by 8 and the humidity is usually up there pretty good in the summer months. I just looked and it's 8:30 and the temp is 85 and humitidty is 38%.

I get the heat headaches real easy and usually have one by the time I get home from every ride if I don't get out there early enough. I do the same thing if I mow the lawn. I can't seem to get away with doing anything in this heat without getting a headache.

I guess it's all what you get used to, but some extremes are hard to get use to.

I just know I have to quit letting everything get in my way. If it's not the heat, it's the wind. I have to make myself get out there.

[Susan126]

Same here dex, and it is called acclimation. When we moved to the Seattle area in 1997 from Philadelphia (my husband worked for the helicoptor division of Boeing back east and got a transfer to Boeing here in this area in 97) we left Philly in July with daily temperatures of 103 degrees and 98% humidity. And at night it did cool off, down to a chilling 77 degrees! Our first summer here it was in the mid to upper 80s. People were telling us how hot it was while Joe, the kids, and I wore jeans, sweat shirts, and jackets. And complained about how cold it was!

Now 11 years later we are used to the Seattle climate and when I go home to see my parents in Pittsburgh I die! Pittsburgh has white summer skies from the high humidity.

Oh mimi, I rode on Saturday and Sunday, our hottest two days this week, not in the morning but mid day on both days. 30 miles on Saturday and then 40 on Sunday. I guess I still have some residual back east conditioning or I was just delirious from the heat.



Sue