monday June 30th ride (whine)

[7rider]

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

Actually....I have no idea. I hate the stuff. I'm a delicate flower. I wilt.
Actually, it comes down to acclimatization (after 5 summers in MD, I'm ALMOST getting used to it...but maybe not), pacing, LOTS of liquid, and an adequate warm up. And a single minded focus on a cool shower and central air conditioning at the end of it!

[bmccasland]

How do we do it???

Ideally, a bottle of water, a bottle of electrolyte solution, another bottle of water for your head. And if you keep moving, the evaporative cooling works, somewhat.

That said, I whined recently about having trouble with heat exhaustion....

I think I could easily handle humidity somewhere around 50% and a balmy 85 degrees! That would be terrific riding weather.

Just don't give me cold, nooooooo
I like x-country skiing, but biking in the cold drizzly weather, noooooo

[dex]

Actually....I have no idea. I hate the stuff. I'm a delicate flower. I wilt.
Actually, it comes down to acclimization...

+1
The first few couple of summers after I moved out to Seattle from Tennessee, I couldn't understand what people were complaining about on the "hot" days. I absolutely remember thinking it was pleasant, gorgeous even. Now that I've been here for eight years? Nope. Uh-uh. Don't like it one bit.

When you rarely have to deal with heat and humidity, then even a little tiny bit of either or both gets really uncomfortable really fast. *shrug*

[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

[KnottedYet]

rode my 2 1/2 hour commute home in the heat today. Wearing my *work* clothes. (bad plan!) The ride home involves going up and down 3 of the 5 hills of Seattle.

Just picked up my bra (which I took off along with everything else as soon as I got home) and it is SOAKED with sweat. Ewwwww....

[JLMitchell]

I don't think there's an answer. I think you get better at riding in that type of weather (acclimation), but there's just no way to stop the sweating, especially in the summer going up and down hills. I sweat on command, basically, so I just bear it. If you can, maybe take a few minutes to squirt your face with cold water and dry it lightly so it cools you as it dries?

I agree with the southerners: 84° with 40-something % humidity sounds wonderful! It rained on the Saturday morning ride, but it was still about 88° and we loved it.

[elk]

well..I'll try not to be a weenie...but i'll defend my right to whine....
it's one of my hobbies....I love lettin' loose.....

[SouthernBelle]

47% humidity?! I'd kill to be able to ride in that in the summer. I just rode to work in 65% and really don't consider that bad.

What's the humidity in N.O.? Now they have some killer temps with humidity.

JL, where in TN are you?
Andrea is in Memphis and I'm in Lebanon.

[JLMitchell]

Hi! I live in Eads, but a month ago I started riding with rec groups in Memphis.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

The weather was fine this morning. Husband and I did a nice 24 mile ride after breakfast.

[SouthernBelle]

Ah, you are close to Andrea then. I'm a long way away.