Tired of the 100 degree + days!

[Puckerbrush]

I am really new to cycling, but I've been trying to get into better shape lately. We're in central OK and mercy it has been wicked hot here. I've been taking my walks early in the morning. It has irritated me to no end when I get up at 0630 for my walk and it's already in the mid 80's

All this heat makes me miss living in Maine so very much .....

Fish Lady, you aren't missing any good weather in Maine this year! May was okay, but June and July have been unusually cold and rainy...DH and I both did the TAM and it was the wettest 180 miles I ever rode! Sunday the 19th was the nicest day yet this summer and it didn't even make 80 degrees. We are longing for just a tiny taste of the Southern heat!

[BeeLady]

I'm in South Texas and we've had a string of about thirty 100 degree-plus days. I was ill in March, and the wind was so strong through April that I basically quit riding. I ride mainly for errands and since moving out to the country, the closest grocer is 15 miles or more.

My solution? An electric assist for my Big Dummy! I sold my car, bought an eZee Electric Hub Motor Kit w/ Lithium Battery and hit the road. Did my 20-mile shopping trip today, came back with my bags loaded and survived. I still got a heck of a work out, and 98 degrees (in the shade) when I returned is still sapping whether there's help on the hills and in the wind or not.

I have goats to milk in the mornings now, but right after that's done, I can hit the road. I plan on at least two trips into town each week and riding my Bianchi Volpe for fun when the weather cools down.

[Kano]

It's here too, the dry, desert heat. I have learned that if I can't ride in the morning, late evening, 8:00 or so, is a nice time to ride. Riding in the morning is a challenge for me -- I hate morning! -- but I'm working on it.

Time to change -- I need a ride! (missed two days in a row, and I don't do that happily anymore!)

Karen in Boise

[PinkBike]

just checkin in with the extreme heat discussion.
last week riding in to work (at 2 in the afternoon) it was what i call "scary hot." i think it may have been 114. when you can't get enough O2 its so dry and hot. you get chills. the air burns on your legs. it is truly like sticking your head in an oven.

but i for one just love it.

my commute is 6 miles, only about 25 minutes.
i call them my "tanning rides."
my coworkers call them my "melanoma rides."

then you wait next to a car at a stop light and feel the heat from their engine compounded by their a/c running at full bore. whoa.

i think we're just paying for such a mild winter - and even june.

[shootingstar]

just checkin in with the extreme heat discussion.
last week riding in to work (at 2 in the afternoon) it was what i call "scary hot." i think it may have been 114. when you can't get enough O2 its so dry and hot. you get chills. the air burns on your legs. it is truly like sticking your head in an oven.

but i for one just love it.

But ask yourself, if you would be saying the same thing 10 years from now, meaning loving such high extreme dry heat and sun.

[Kano]

just checkin in with the extreme heat discussion.
last week riding in to work (at 2 in the afternoon) it was what i call "scary hot." i think it may have been 114. when you can't get enough O2 its so dry and hot. you get chills. the air burns on your legs. it is truly like sticking your head in an oven.

but i for one just love it.

But ask yourself, if you would be saying the same thing 10 years from now, meaning loving such high extreme dry heat and sun.

Not Pink, but...

Twelve springs ago, we were transplanted from Minnesota to Idaho. Northern tier still, and you wouldn't think the climate would be so different. We do have seasons, snow in winter, heat in summer -- plenty of it! The primary difference -- it's much hotter and drier in summer, and winter is more mild. When we got here, I found I liked the extreme, dry heat, and all the sunshine.

A dozen summers later, yup, I can still say I love it. You learn how to live in it -- and quite honestly, I find it lots easier than the "not the heat it's the humidity" back in Minnesota! That stuff is just NASty!

Karen in Boise

[Crankin]

I'm sorry, 115 is 115. Or 100 is 100 for that matter. No temperatures that any human being should be outside in, let alone exerting themselves in. Humidity is irrelevant. I don't like humidity, either, but, I prefer a more moderate temperature, short bouts of high humidity, a couple of heat waves, and change.
Mostly, I don't have to plan my riding around the temperature, only the chance of rain.
In the winter, I just put my wool on and get outside to snow shoe or x country ski! Again, we don't have the extreme humidity for 3 months, below zero temps for months, or many days above 90 degrees. No tornadoes, either. Yes, the weather here is changeable and weird at times, but that's what I like. It grates on my nerves to hear people complaining about the weather, as most New Englanders seem to do.
Hey, it's just my opinion, but then, I was one who got SAD from endless days of eternal sunshine and unbearable high temperatures.