first hot ride of the season

[soprano]

Kudos to you Southern ladies who manage to keep it up all summer. I don't think I could do it.

In my opinion, the heat here in Texas is easier to deal with because it is so consistent. Growing up in Ohio, I recall having heat waves that would get to be just as hot as it does here in Texas, but would only last for a week or so. We weren't used to the heat and it was miserable.

Here in Austin, it just gets hot and stays hot. I'm unwilling to spend the entire summer indoors, so I sucked it up, took things slow, and gradually acclimated to our hot summers. When I moved here, I couldn't go running after sunup, but these days I just sort of academically note that it's hot out, and after that I don't really notice it.

[emily_in_nc]

You really do get used to it. I do much better with hot-weather rides in July and August than I do in May. Eventually it's just hot here every day, even in the morning, so it starts feeling pretty much normal. But we had a fairly cool springtime here, so I am not used to rides when it's over the low 80s just yet.