All of this and more is just interesting reading!
Several things here:
My body has acclimatized to different CAnadian regions. Right now the prairies, it's much drier, colder than Ontario or southern coastal British Columbia where there's generally more humidity in the air and where I used to live and bike for many years.
I believe over the past decade, my tolerance to cold temperatures, has increased. My tolerance for heat, especially humid heat (ie. humidex over 75%) has dropped alot. 7 years ago , I loved Hawai'i but didn't truly "enjoy" tropical heat..and they get Pacific ocean winds. My partner often wears at least double the top body layers, compared to myself.
I love cycling in 0-15 degrees C in winter/early spring/fall where I live. As long it's very light breeze or none at all! In our part of the world, we can get drastic strong wind for a few hrs. because it comes off the Rocky Mountains.
It's drier temp. I often wear long sleeve jersey, light fleecy and medium weight cycling jacket. As it gets warmer, would wear a light fleecy vest instead of long sleeved fleecy under cycling jacket. If it does get warmer during day, short sleeved jersey instead of long sleeved jersey works for me for those temperature ranges. I haven't yet "hardened" my cycling legs yet this spring, since we had some snowflakes today!
Our winters do annually drop as low as -25 to -35 degrees C for several days.
I don't mind the annoying heat engine inside me for exercise activities. It's more when I wear dressy lovely clothing..off bike...
Good to know that hot pee after short bout of exercise can..um normal for certain age brackets.
I also seem to need a tiny energy snack or similar for bike trips shorter than ie. 15 years ago. Or maybe my stomache has become like Pavolov's dog..primed to eat sooner.




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