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*