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Hate to mention those words "heat wave" but I am curious. Have you guys been out riding in this weather? I have been commuting on my hardtail all week but it drained me. 99 degrees and 67% humidty was the average up here for the past 3 days. Im dying to get out to the trails and get roughed up (sick of those boring roads) but im exhausted. Anyone else riding or am I crazy? If so how do you keep cool besides jumping in the river after?
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WOW, only 67% humidity. Man, we are always getting 85% plus humidity. Lucky you! 😉
Yes, it has been around 98 degrees plus here in central east FL and we have been riding. It was 97 degrees around 9am when we rode 8 miles out to our local MTB trail today, and then rode a few more out there. Man was it steaming! Then it started to rain and sunshine at the same time just making it even more balmy than it was prior to the rain. Got home, and the exterior thermostat was reading 105 degrees. NO Joking either! It felt like a miserable 115 degrees out, even with the breeze we had riding back home. Thank God for the breeze or it would have been horrible. One guy from Colorado damn near passed out on the trail after one loop from heat exhaustion.
So yeah, its been pretty hot & balmy here, and my wife rides her bike to work everyday of the week & I urban FR 3 times a weeks at least. My son always is complaining how hot it is out.
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Our 60 degrees and rain sux as much as your heat wave
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"ollysj" wrote
Our 60 degrees and rain sux as much as your heat wave
Ah man, 60 degrees makes me jealous bro. I would damn near kill for that…..LOL. I love cooler weather! 😄
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Don’t like it that hot too, but the weather here makes you depressiv 😢
Anyway, I put the raingear on and hit the trails 😄 -
"ollysj" wrote
Don’t like it that hot too, but the weather here makes you depressiv 😢
Anyway, I put the raingear on and hit the trails 😄You must live in the NW States, like Oregon or Washington then. That is depressive weather there. I used to go out that way to dig up gems
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"Bonsai-CP" wrote
[quote="ollysj":2adniv2h]Don’t like it that hot too, but the weather here makes you depressiv 😢
Anyway, I put the raingear on and hit the trails 😄You must live in the NW States, like Oregon or Washington then. [/quote:2adniv2h]Not even close
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"ollysj" wrote
[quote="Bonsai-CP":3gy1i2iw][quote="ollysj":3gy1i2iw]Don’t like it that hot too, but the weather here makes you depressiv 😢
Anyway, I put the raingear on and hit the trails 😄You must live in the NW States, like Oregon or Washington then. [/quote:3gy1i2iw]Not even close
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Is that Germany? -
yep
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I have a German friend who is also complaining about the cold. He said that he can’t go out at night without a jacket, and during the day you need to consider a jacket! Crazy!
But yeah, today was 101 degrees, I don’t know humidity, but it was hot, and I rode 25 miles 😀. My shirt was soaked, I would much prefer 60 degrees. -
"ollysj" wrote
yep
Man, you guys have some serious gnarly DH runs over there in Europe, especially Germany, France, and Italy. My life long wish is to hammer Morzine.
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"Lpwn_Ranger" wrote
I have a German friend who is also complaining about the cold. He said that he can’t go out at night without a jacket, and during the day you need to consider a jacket! Crazy!
But yeah, today was 101 degrees, I don’t know humidity, but it was hot, and I rode 25 miles 😀. My shirt was soaked, I would much prefer 60 degrees.I share that feeling this day riding. I was soaked, and then half soaked by the hot and balmy rain…LOL
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"Bonsai-CP" wrote
[quote="ollysj":2rynp0o4]yep
Man, you guys have some serious gnarly DH runs over there in Europe, especially Germany, France, and Italy. My life long wish is to hammer Morzine.[/quote:2rynp0o4]you need to ride at the Megavalanche at Alpe d’Huez 😉
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"Lpwn_Ranger" wrote
I have a German friend who is also complaining about the cold. He said that he can’t go out at night without a jacket, and during the day you need to consider a jacket! Crazy!
But yeah, today was 101 degrees, I don’t know humidity, but it was hot, and I rode 25 miles 😀. My shirt was soaked, I would much prefer 60 degrees.Yeah, it’s crazy this year, cold and rainy for weeks now 😈
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Where in Germany? I was stationed in Bad Hersfeld back when there was an East and West.
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Koln. I was born after the wall came down.
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"brianW" wrote
Where in Germany? I was stationed in Bad Hersfeld back when there was an East and West.
I’m living next to Frankfurt. It’s 100 miles south of Bad Hersfeld
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9 miles, stating temp 79, ending temp at 10:20 was 94, 15 degree rise in around an hour. Decided to call it a day.
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20 miles, starting temp 52, ending temp at 1:20 pm 63 and pouring rain. Me and my buddy had a lot of fun, even if we had been soaking wet and covered with mud 😆
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Try 110* and 60% humidity. Only way to get out is either in the mornings or at night. I haven’t seen anyone out past 11am unless they’re crazy.
I rode yesterday. Starting temp at 7am 86, ending 100 at 9am -
99 degrees? that’s cold to me.. what about 118 degrees here in Phoenix, AZ? eye glasses, watches almost anything when outdoors, close to your body, can practically burn your skin… that’s heat, yeaah 😄
"tjc58" wroteHate to mention those words "heat wave" but I am curious. Have you guys been out riding in this weather? I have been commuting on my hardtail all week but it drained me. 99 degrees and 67% humidty was the average up here for the past 3 days. Im dying to get out to the trails and get roughed up (sick of those boring roads) but im exhausted. Anyone else riding or am I crazy? If so how do you keep cool besides jumping in the river after?
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"dbowie" wrote
99 degrees? that’s cold to me.. what about 118 degrees here in Phoenix, AZ? eye glasses, watches almost anything when outdoors, close to your body, can practically burn your skin… that’s heat, yeaah 😄
Humidity?
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no humidity but plenty of sun radiation and burning desert dry heat, enough to make you wish you were in FL sweating under that humid air 😀
"dozzerboy" wrote[quote="dbowie":f57d4g02]99 degrees? that’s cold to me.. what about 118 degrees here in Phoenix, AZ? eye glasses, watches almost anything when outdoors, close to your body, can practically burn your skin… that’s heat, yeaah 😄
Humidity?[/quote:f57d4g02]
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Everyone thinks Florida is bad, but Georgia is worse. Same humidity but no breeze from being surrounded by the water.
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I bet things like this don’t happen in humid places? 😆
I was lucky that day I wasn’t biking.. it happened at the time I usually head to the trails.. 😐
"dozzerboy" wroteEveryone thinks Florida is bad, but Georgia is worse. Same humidity but no breeze from being surrounded by the water.
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"dozzerboy" wrote
Everyone thinks Florida is bad, but Georgia is worse. Same humidity but no breeze from being surrounded by the water.
LOL….I lived in GA for 5 years working in the EMS field (Fire Rescue & Fire Medic), so I know how the weather is there bro, and it is twice as hot in south GA than north GA my friend. Brother, we don’t get know breeze in central FL, and it is twice at humid and hot inland than on the coast line. I won’t even go winter weather. 😉
@ dbowie…..
I have seen quite a few riders come from out west (AZ, NM, UT, NV, CO, & CA….etc.) and they were astonished how hot and humid it gets here, and how lung searing it can be riding here. I lived out west (smack out in the middle of the Mojave Desert near Death Valley), and I have family on my moms side in CO and family in AZ on my wife’s side. I have experienced both climates and I would rather have the dry heat over steaming heat like here (roasting oven). Enough said…LOL 😉
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Orginally from NM, I gotta go with ‘Bosai’. NM/AZ area usually has a higher temp than GA but the humidity makes it seem WAY worse. Either way NM, AZ and GA got nothing on UAE, 120 deg 68% humidity. Ha ha thats where I spent last summer and there were guys out working (albeit working slowly) in that for 12 hour days wearing jeans + long sleeve shirt + jump suit for $300 a month and never complained a bit!
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Gang,
aaaahhhhh 😎
Phoenix, AZ dry heat is waaayyy harder/tougher in your body than GA or FL hot/humidity… I have been living in Tampa, FL for 3 years and I have NEVER felt this craziness outdoors. While a humid heat may feel more uncomfortable, it’s less likely to cause dehydration.
I’ve have heard the saying about Arizona’s heat "But it’s a DRY heat," which is usually meant to imply that dry heat is better than humid heat, sorry but it’s not like that…. Phoenix is both hotter and drier than most other places in the country, yes, and people from more humid places claim that it feels hotter in higher humidity even when the temperature is lower. But this is how that works:
When your body gets hot, it sweats. The heat from your body is dissipated because it’s spent turning the water on your skin into vapor…. as the sweat evaporates from your body, more sweat takes its place for as long as your body decides that it needs to cool itself down… The advantage is that your body can regulate its temperature. The disadvantage being that you lose water and can dehydrate..
So why does it feel hotter in areas of higher humidity? Because when there is already a high concentration of water in the air, your sweat has no place to go… the water in the air actually condenses on your skin. While you may feel stickier or sweatier in high humid regions, you’re actually sweating less but because the sweat doesn’t evaporate, you appear to sweat more… This also means that the process of sweating doesn’t cool you down much, and you feel warmer… 😛
Now that bottle of water you just sucked down… is going to take almost "45 minutes" to be absorbed by your GI tract into your blood stream !! The average 200 pound human has roughly 5 liters of blood volume (~ 160 oz.). So you are starting your routine in the heat roughly 48 oz or ~ 1500 mls down!!! With the water volume down in the vascular system, the blood is thicker and therefore it flows slower therefor it is harder for your heart to pump out of the extremities up to the brain… 😢
A person biking on a hot Arizona summer day can lose about one quart of water per 15 minutes, and more if going fast…. secondly, when you begin to lose too much water, your body can heat up faster causing you to suffer from heat exhaustion. Initial symptoms include nausea, dizziness, and lack of sweat (because you’re dehydrated). With continued exposure to heat, other symptoms include ringing in the ears, headache, and loss of muscle control. Upon noticing the first symptom, get out of the heat and replenish the body’s water immediately.
For a reason when I hit the trails I just see:…, cacti, rocks, rattle snakes, scorpions and some crazy coyotes !!… yeaahhh 😄 cacti
"Bonsai-CP" wrote[quote="dozzerboy":al5lqfqj]Everyone thinks Florida is bad, but Georgia is worse. Same humidity but no breeze from being surrounded by the water.
LOL….I lived in GA for 5 years working in the EMS field (Fire Rescue & Fire Medic), so I know how the weather is there bro, and it is twice as hot in south GA than north GA my friend. Brother, we don’t get know breeze in central FL, and it is twice at humid and hot inland than on the coast line. I won’t even go winter weather. 😉
@ dbowie…..
I have seen quite a few riders come from out west (AZ, NM, UT, NV, CO, & CA….etc.) and they were astonished how hot and humid it gets here, and how lung searing it can be riding here. I lived out west (smack out in the middle of the Mojave Desert near Death Valley), and I have family on my moms side in CO and family in AZ on my wife’s side. I have experienced both climates and I would rather have the dry heat over steaming heat like here (roasting oven). Enough said…LOL 😉[/quote:al5lqfqj]
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Georgia= the only state where summer weather can be over 100 degrees and still have a week long ice storm in the winter.
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I’ve been riding. I just get out first thing in the morning or late in the evening. Have done a couple of mid-day rides but I have been absolutely soaked through by the time I’m done. Also, I find that I just don’t have the strength to ride as long of distances in really heavy heat… It’s tough.
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"dozzerboy" wrote
Georgia= the only state where summer weather can be over 100 degrees and still have a week long ice storm in the winter.
Not true. Wisconsin, my home state, has been having temps close to or just over 100 and it gets frickin cold and snowy in the winter. Minnesota has been even hotter, well over 100 degrees! Oh, and they have high humidity too….
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Denver = 100 in summer and snow storms in winter.
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Here in Massachusetts we had a few days of near or over 100 degrees; i don’t think there was much riding going on. Twice I went outside to see if I wanted to head out and made the sane decision to pass on it. The liquid and energy is just sucked clean out of you, and when you’re brain-dead, that’s when you do stupid things on a bike and hurt yourself.
It broke this Sunday, though, and the riding has since commenced again!
And of course today, it’s dang near 30 degrees cooler… New England. [i:1fpr7y50]Sigh[/i:1fpr7y50]. If you don’t like the weather, just wait ten minutes. 😄
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I have to laugh when folks from GA complain about weather, yes it does get hot here in GA but it stays that way. Nothing like 100 one day and the following in the 50’s. I remember a storm front in NH that dropped the temp 38 degrees in 20 minutes. Changes like that all the time take a toll. You never get used to anything. Also a week when ice/snow on the ground is nothing. Snow storms are measured in feet not inches.
High humidity does suck. Nothing like going out and the sweat just doesn’t go away.
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@ fitch, hot days like that is why there is Kimball’s Farm.
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I know that Georgia’s weather isn’t the worst but having humidity that fogs up you contacts sucks…
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I got …humidy….sucks out of that… 😆
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I know it s hot every where and only getting hotter every year, no debate over that statement.
That said……..I went to bed at 12am with an outside temp of 81 degrees and woke up with it at 80 degrees, this is getting totally ridiculous, especially with the humidity at 94% this morning. Yesterday it topped out at 103 degrees, and the heat index was 116 degrees. Supposed to get hotter today by a few degrees. I live on the east coast and not a lot of breeze either, so this BS is a total bummer!!! 😕
My poor AC is working its butt off just trying to cool off a portion of our home to at least 77 degrees, even at night. I wish we had at least some kind of cooler weather at night, especially with a lower humidity level.
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"Bonsai-CP" wrote
I know it s hot every where and only getting hotter every year, no debate over that statement.
We had two ski resorts open until July 4th this year.
Monarch Crest still has snow on it.
One never had been before. We’re having a mini ice age out here!
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"maddslacker" wrote
[quote="Bonsai-CP":wiq0en9q]I know it s hot every where and only getting hotter every year, no debate over that statement.
We had two ski resorts open until July 4th this year.
Monarch Crest still has snow on it.
One never had been before. We’re having a mini ice age out here![/quote:wiq0en9q]
Yeah I heard ya’ll had an amazing snow year! Wish I had been out there!!!
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"maddslacker" wrote
[quote="Bonsai-CP":3gskn1io]I know it s hot every where and only getting hotter every year, no debate over that statement.
We had two ski resorts open until July 4th this year.
Monarch Crest still has snow on it.
One never had been before. We’re having a mini ice age out here![/quote:3gskn1io]
I am totally jealous, but it is getting much warmer here and I wish we could get a mini ice age…LOL.Winter here is non-existent here, though a lot of snowbirds think it it is cold here during the winter season. Go figure…LOL! I am in tank tops and shorts during the winter season here, and a few days of the year I may put on a long sleeve shirt and pants, but only a few days a year.
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Funny, was just on the Oregon MTBR site and they are complaining about how cool and wet their weather has been. Nothing but hot and sticky here in Virginia. Been riding anyway…..
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"CraigCreekRider" wrote
Funny, was just on the Oregon MTBR site and they are complaining about how cool and wet their weather has been. Nothing but hot and sticky here in Virginia. Been riding anyway…..
Yeah Weather.com headline yesterday read something along the lines of "East Coast Sweltering in 100+ degree heat, and Northwest still waiting for summer to arrive"
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"dbowie" wrote
Gang,
aaaahhhhh 😎
Phoenix, AZ dry heat is waaayyy harder/tougher in your body than GA or FL hot/humidity… I have been living in Tampa, FL for 3 years and I have NEVER felt this craziness outdoors. While a humid heat may feel more uncomfortable, it’s less likely to cause dehydration.
I worked the flightline in AZ, GA, Africa, and Afghanistan. I "enjoyed" the AZ weather over all the other ones, by far. You can’t even think about touching anything metal without getting first degree burns but it’s much easier to cool off in a dry heat than it is in humid weather. Your sweat needs to evaporate to cool you down. The drier the air, the quicker the evaporation. The quicker the evaporation, the quicker you cool down. It’s true, you do have the possibility to dehydrate easier in the dry heat because you don’t notice you’re sweating. As far as which one is easier to overcome, it’s a lot easier to drink water from your camelbak than pull out a mini-AC unit
Regarding the OP’s question:
I rode a few times during the heatwave here (heat indexes of 105+.) I rode in the morning or around 9 PM at night. The green trail I rode to get to the blue/black trails was in full sun. I swear that one was harder than the more technical trails in the woods! I drank water when thirsty and used clif shot bloks as an electrolyte source about 40 minutes into the ride. I rode for 60-70 minutes each time. -
+1 for the dry heat. Those who say otherwise have never experienced it properly…
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Got lucky yesterday. Another hot day, but all of a sudden in the afternoon the humidity lifted. Must have been a dry wind out of the northwest. Rode a couple of hours after work and it was great. 😃
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I try to get in at least two rides a week: one evening ride after work and one morning ride on the weekend. Usually we go real early on the weekends even when it is not hot, but it has its advantages when the heat is on.
Last weekend we went a little later than normal. I don’t usually have much problem, but I did hit the wall. When I got back to the truck, I spent 5 minutes with the AC blowing on my head and drinking water before I put my gear up. I felt beat the rest of the day.
We’ve had two days of "cool" weather (low to mid 90s and lower humidity). I’m riding tonight, and the heat is turning back up tomorrow. Looks like dawn patrol rides are in order this weekend!
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We have been "enjoying" the heat and humidity like much of the country. My riding buddy and I planned to drive to Dark Mountain Trail at W. Kerr Scott Resevoir. We drove through one of the worst storms I have ever seen. Tons of clouds to ground lightening and eventually the rain was so strong that it seemed like we had submerged like a submarine. <Had a picture I am not sure how to post it.>
We got to the park and the sky stayed a little cloudy but the woods was like riding through a sauna. The heat came back and soaked us through and through.
Sweet ride ended by wading into the lake to cool off and and refresh.
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"RidingPastor" wrote
My riding buddy and I planned to drive to Dark Mountain Trail at W. Kerr Scott Resevoir…Sweet ride ended by wading into the lake to cool off and and refresh.
Definitely on my list of places to ride. Was that your first time riding there?
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"fleetwood" wrote
[quote="RidingPastor":1agfpmk9]My riding buddy and I planned to drive to Dark Mountain Trail at W. Kerr Scott Resevoir…Sweet ride ended by wading into the lake to cool off and and refresh.
Definitely on my list of places to ride. Was that your first time riding there?[/quote:1agfpmk9]
No I have ridden the Overland Victory trail before but not Dark Mountain. It was a ton of fun and lots of options on DM. I think there are 6 trails off the main road. OVT has a 2.5 mile loop off of it.
Good times you should check it out.
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