No riding for a week

[tc1]

I know this will make those of you in other parts of the world laugh, but
The weather in Seattle today is 90 degrees F! And it is predicted to be this hot through Thursday at least, and possibly even to 95!
I won't be riding, my morning commute is cool but the ride home is in the heat of the day.

And my normally hyper dog is lying around like a piece of furniture.

[Biciclista]

no kidding! just got back from riding 15 FLAT miles in that HEAT
phew! I wouldn't want to go any further than that and I sure wouldn't want to tackle much in the way of hills (Besides the unfortunate fact that i can't get home WITHOUT climbing a hill)

[malaholic]

I really, really, really hope it's cooler than they're forecasting. I don't even like to be outside in this heat, let alone riding in it. RAMROD is this Thursday...I finally got in this year, and after all the training I've put in over the last few months I'll be ticked off if I DNF due to heat exhaustion. </rant>

[salsabike]

We got up at 5:30 am today to do our 45-mile hilly tandem ride so we wouldn't die in the later heat. Got home well before noon and I have been totally sluglike ever since.

My spouse is also doing RAMROD and is under strict orders to DNF if he starts feeling bad. No ride is worth heat stroke, I think. Although I totally understand, Malaholic, why you want to go, because it's so damn hard to get a riding slot. Just be careful out there, okay?

I have a triathlon in the Portland area on Saturday. Am a little worried about that as well.

[shootingstar]

Today feels like southern Ontario summers...humid, hot.
I set off at 7:00 am. today. And finished with more fish shopping at end by 9:00 am.

Amazing that I did do several loaded bike trips over several weeks each, in Ontario years ago. I was "stronger" as a cyclist in certain ways but certainly never had much enthusiasm for hills when living there. Nothing like doing a hill when there's a smog alert.

Though I'm still not completely used to normal summers in Northwest Pacific with abit of cool edge/tinge in air even at 80 degrees F, would still like to adjust/acclimatize quickly if I have to ,whenever I return to Toronto to visit family in warm weather.

Last time I was there for several weeks, it was more humid than how we're feeling on the Northwest Coast. I biked daily to stay fit. Usually no more than 30 kms. at most. Kept my weight stable after the numerous dinners/meals with family, friends. The west has the challenge of hills and mountains for cyclists...whereas other areas have the heat/humidity ..to build cycling "character".

It's nearly amusing that the lightning storm (rare for Vancouver, BC) we had last night made front page news in local news. Jeepers. That is the norm in southern Ontario (and probably parts of northern Ont. also).

[kenyonchris]

I know this will make those of you in other parts of the world laugh, but
The weather in Seattle today is 90 degrees F! And it is predicted to be this hot through Thursday at least, and possibly even to 95!
I won't be riding, my morning commute is cool but the ride home is in the heat of the day.

And my normally hyper dog is lying around like a piece of furniture.

LOL! I was REJOICING about our cold front that brought our temps down to 90/95 last week. It was GREAT!
I know lots of non-native texans who suffer in this heat...I suffer in the heat, but am used to it. Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!

[oxysback]

It's supposed to be in the triple digits next week down here in the Portland area. Ugh.

[meggiestardust]

It was 100+ here today and supposed to be 95+ all week. I think I may be catching up with my napping and swimming, and slacking on my cycling. I just can't bring myself to do it.

[Dogmama]

105 degrees here today. But it's a dry heat. Just like hell.

I'm on the road by 5:30. Usually we're at a balmy 80 degrees. By 8:00, it's bake-city. I especially hate stop lights with cars throwing heat, sun beating down and sweating from every pore. At least the snow birds and the college students are still somewhere else.

[LilBolt]

I watched the remaining FSA track races today at the Marymoor Velodrome. They had to finish off the races they weren't able to complete last night due to the showers that rolled through. It must have felt like they were riding in a giant crockpot. Those are some amazing athletes.

DH is riding RAMROD, too. I'm glad I didn't get in...my training probably would have gotten me through only perfect riding conditions. Cool tailwinds to everyone doing it this year.

[lauraelmore1033]

I only managed to change my saddle before I was drenched in sweat from head to toe. A couple of laps around the block to fine tune the fit and I was DONE. Came in and saw that the cats were strewn across the floor (with foster babies, that makes 6) in front of the fan. Looked like a crime scene.

[arielmoon]

Hot here is a fact of life. BF said his computer read 108 at one point on our ride on Sat. We did 22 miles out and back.*shrugs*

[OakLeaf]

It's all what you're acclimated to. Let's not let this turn into another one of the p*ssing contests like "my weather and my hills are bad, and yours aren't."

I like heat, and the one summer I spent in Florida, I didn't hesitate to go running at noon when it was 90-95°F. Shades of "mad dogs and Englishmen;" if the natives did their workouts outdoors at all, they'd go in the early morning or after sundown.

But the weather has been so cool here this year that on the two or three times the temperatures have topped 85°F, everyone's really suffered.

To give you an idea - "normal" temps for this time of year would be daytime highs of 85 most days. As it is, with the changing climate, no one knows what "normal" is any more. I've ridden in long-sleeved jerseys three times this past month, and when I did my laundry yesterday, there were two long-sleeved wool base layers in the load. We haven't turned our AC on since 2007 (hope it still works!).

Riding in temperatures you're not acclimated to is dangerous and requires care, period, whether that temperature is 115°F or 85°F.

[redrhodie]

I'll take 50º over 90º any day. I just got back from a very humid ride (and it's only in the 70s today), and I feel like a chewed up piece of gum. Ick.

[Biciclista]

my DH is doing ramrod and his plan is to ride as hard as he can early, to get as far as he can during the cool part of his day.
Whatever is hot for anyone is hot. I would never live in places like Florida or Texas because it's too hot. A lot of people live in the Pacific NW precisely because they are weather weenies, so our true colors really come out when we get stuck in a heat wave.