No riding for a week

[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.