Hot Riding preparation

[malkin]

Yesterday I could hardly go outside!

This morning I went outside early to do some of the work that didn't get done yesterday. It was already mid 70s at 7:00 this morning! Now that the sun is up, it will be hide inside for me.

[Dogmama]

Yesterday I could hardly go outside!

This morning I went outside early to do some of the work that didn't get done yesterday. It was already mid 70s at 7:00 this morning! Now that the sun is up, it will be hide inside for me.

It was 85 degrees at 4AM in Tucson. Phoenix was 92. Maybe it's time to drag out the lights & start riding at 3AM?

[Becky]

It was 85 degrees at 4AM in Tucson. Phoenix was 92. Maybe it's time to drag out the lights & start riding at 3AM?

DH and I have been known to do this. It's actually lots of fun

[malkin]

It was 85 degrees at 4AM in Tucson. Phoenix was 92. Maybe it's time to drag out the lights & start riding at 3AM?

Well, it certainly wouldn't interrupt any sleep because it is too stinkin hot to sleep! We tried sleeping outside, rather unsuccessfully because of the wind.

[Crankin]

Malkin, where do you live? Don't you have AC? Evaporative cooling?
In AZ, people used to hang sheets out on their porches and blow a fan on the sheets, to sleep in the summer, before the 50's, when AC become available. Women and children were sent to San Diego for the summer!
Dogmama, I would not be riding in AZ at this time of year. I might get up and ride at 4 AM now, but I remember walking at 5 AM in the summer and it was already unbearable. I would think my riding season would be the end of October through March.
It was about 82 when we rode on Saturday, but the combination of bright sunshine, eating lunch in the sun, and hard climbing had me cursing the heat. I do acclimate more quickly than in the past, but I obviously need to do this still, this year.

[jessmarimba]

Well, it certainly wouldn't interrupt any sleep because it is too stinkin hot to sleep! We tried sleeping outside, rather unsuccessfully because of the wind.

I'm sleeping on the couch downstairs with a tower fan, since 93 degrees with shaded windows is remarkably cooler than my upstairs, with no porch roofs to block windows and temps of around 105. It cooled to 82 downstairs overnight.

I don't want full-blown a/c because of Raynaud's, but I went to buy a portable evaporative cooler yesterday and the entire Denver/Boulder metro area is sold out. Something's gotta give. 3 days of record heat here in a row. Maybe I'll sleep at my office tomorrow night?

[malkin]

I'm in Salt Lake City.
Our house is pretty far from well designed; the bedroom upstairs heats up like an oven. We're running AC and a portable swamp cooler too, which makes it okay inside, but it's just blasting hot outside.

Next modification to the house will be better insulation and venting the attic space, but really, when it's that hot outside it's just that hot. The sun at this altitude feels nastier to me than it does shining through all the lovely atmosphere at sea level.

Relative humidity is 10% and there are fires all over the state.

Brewer & I were outside downtown this afternoon and ended up making jokes about living on Tatooine and more obscurely "Dune, Arakis, Desert Planet..." So maybe the heat has gone to my head...

Usually June is nice!