misterE0

So today it's about 90F, and is supposed to be in the mid nineties for the next few days. I know that when it gets like this I just start sweating profusely and can't stop. I can barely function when it gets like this, so riding is limited to the cooler mornings and evenings. Anyone else deal with this? I guess since I'm already sweating, I should go out and ride anyway, I just don't feel like doing anything but drinking iced tea on days like today.

Mr. Beanz

Nope, not a dripper! The heat will fatigue me but don't sweat noticeably. I was on a training ride once. I hit the first hill and thought I had a flat. Didn't so I rode back cause I thought I was sick. Found out a bit later it was a record hig 115!


Did this ride a few weeks ago. 40 miles of climbing. I stopped at a park to rest. I wa shocked I was sweating this much. Turns out it was 105 that day. But the heat doesn't stop me from riding. Only the rain cause I don't like to risk the components on the bike. I don't pay much attention to the weather report unless it looks like rain!

Richard_Rides

The hotter it is the better I like it. Today, on my regular 28 mile route, it was 105. I like...

chirojeremy

What is wrong with sweating when working out? I love to sweat while working out. Its the sweating while in clothes and no one else is sweating that I dont like. As I have started riding in the hot weather I believe it is helping me not sweat as much in other venues. I say, sweat on brother! It surely has not stopped me from riding!

jakereed

Same problem here in Florida but I refuse to stop riding, so I get out around 6:00am and finish by 8:30am. I see a lot of people at that time now that I usually saw in the afternoons.

kenseth03

100 degrees hear today! Did not ride because I had to work. Tomorrow is supposed to be about the same but I may ride early in the morning. I will not ride at 100 degrees!

East Hill

You guys are killing me! I hate the heat, it always triggers a migraine. No matter how much I hydrate, if I have to go up a hill, a migraine awaits me at the end .

East Hill

misterE0

I know how you feel EH...I've been saying for years if I could find a place that was 75Fish year round I'd move there tomorrow.

East Hill

Seattle's as close as I could manage. I would rather be wet in the winter, than boiling hot in the summer .

East Hill

misterE0

I've never been...I don't think I'd care for all the grey and rain. Where I lived in Northern Indiana got an average of 71 days of sunshine per year...man that gets old. I forgot what a proper sunset looks like.

CACycling

I can pump out gallons through my skin! I love the "performance materials" that get a lot of it away from me. Still have to clean it off my bikes, clothes, glasses and helmets. Been like this forever so I just ride, drip and drink.

Big_e

I love the hot Texas weather. I sweat alot on my bike rides but I feel that this makes me more resistant to the heat when I work or hang with friends. At work,I'm an inspector and I do alot of walking as I inspect large properties. Property manager and workers often ask how I stay so fresh as they start to lag with the heat. Workers often walk fast to try and wear me out but I just effortlessly clip along behind them and halfway through inspections, it's me who rushes them to hurry up and then, I'm merciless. I tell them, "Let's go the the front of the property to look and the siding again." or "Let's go the rear property line to inspect the back fence." and the management crew is sweating bullets.
Ernest

Wogster

Okay, sweat is a natural process, as you sweat, the sweat evaporates off the skin, leaving the skin cooler, this means the body can circulate more blood to the skin, cooling the blood, and preventing the body from over heating. This works really well in places that are hot, dry and breezy. However if you have a hot and humid area, with little or no air motion, then sweat tends to build up on the skin, and you feel hotter, because sweat is less able to evaporate. Air motion is why you can be riding, and feel comfortable, but as soon as you stop, you feel much hotter, because your forward motion is causing more evaporation. Today here it was nearly 90℉, but because there was a stiff breeze, we had good evaporation, so it didn't feel hot. That's actually rare around here, most hot days it's still as can be, the humidity runs over 90% and you have no relief other then the A/C or sipping your ice tea under a nice old shade tree.

tntom

I sweat like a pig. I sometimes sweat my shoes wet. That's when it gets good. This time of year in East Tn. if you don't sweat you would die. I was out walking around this afternoon for about 30 min. There was not dry place on me. I have to get used to riding in the heat. I have a metric on July 5th. Starts Downtown it will most likely be 80* when we start. Ride-Sweat-Drink-Repeat.

DieselDan

Quit the whining.

misterE0

troll

tntom

I aint Whining. I love it. It's the SOUTH and I love the SOUTH

We don't even know hot. Where you live it is realy HOT.

Tom Stormcrowe

https://www.mapmyride.com/ride/united...ette/739977507

Doing this at 92 degrees tomorrow, with 20-25 MPH winds from the SSW.

Argus

I know it's not as hot as it's down south but it was 31C (87f) today but last week it was 17C (62.6f), I hate the heat but it's usually not to bad after you get started, but I say the same thing when it -20C.

Fribley

I sweat constantly! I was actually riding today and just dripping and was thinking to myself "I wonder how bad this is for my bike...?"

StephenH

I pumped out my share of sweat today, I know.

"I know how you feel EH...I've been saying for years if I could find a place that was 75Fish year round I'd move there tomorrow."
I think there's some pacific islands that may come close- seems like Guam is 80ish year round.

uofiblue

That's why I'm moving out there at the end of July. I've been in the midwest the first 23 years of my life and I love having all 4 seasons, but I'm sick and tired of the 18 inches of snow over a day or 2 the past couple of years and the strings of 90 degree days during the summer. Bring on the rain and temperate climate baby!

wayne pattee

I figure that I create my own 15 to 20 mph breeze when I'm riding and with the polyester clothes that dry faster, I like riding in hot weather.
Now working in it (construction) is a differant story.
They will send us home from work because its too hot and I'll jump on my bike.

chirojeremy

Guam is hot and humid. When my dad was alive, that is where he lived. It is too humid there. Try Hawaii...

4SEVEN3

I was thinking the same thing, if it's anything like Okinawa you can cut the humidity with a knife!

I cant really do a lot in the heat either. Im a total sweathog and have to really watch my water intake. Ill get a dehydration/heat headache in a split second if Im not careful.