Am I alone in hating hot weather?
- Thread starter Globalti
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What's a Blacksmith?
looking forward to the commute this evening!
LCpl Boiled Egg
Three word soundbite
I'm not a fan, give me a bright and cold autumn day any erm... day.
Flick of the Elbow
Guru
- Location
- Edinburgh
I melt in anything above 21 degrees. 18 is about right for me.
Threevok
Growing old disgracefully
- Location
- South Wales
33 degrees here at the office. Be glad when they finish installing this air-con 
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
No - and if it's not solar-powered, you should be taxed to obscene levels on it
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Another one here who isn't so keen once it's up above 25C. I love summer weather, but there's just right and then there's "I'm melting"...
Fortunately house is shaded by trees, so it's not as hot as it could be. My neighbour's bungalow is in full sun and it's at least 10 degrees hotter in his place than in mine. Chez Casa Reynard it's 25 degrees downstairs and 28 upstairs.
Fortunately house is shaded by trees, so it's not as hot as it could be. My neighbour's bungalow is in full sun and it's at least 10 degrees hotter in his place than in mine. Chez Casa Reynard it's 25 degrees downstairs and 28 upstairs.
Its been a hot few days. I've booked this week off from work and cycled 70 miles on Monday across Wales. The sweat was pouring off me. The foam pads in my bike helmet were that saturated in the stuff, it was becoming a pain in the backside as it dropped into my eyes making them sting.On Tuesday night it was that hot in my dad house I ended up sleeping out side on his sunlonger on his sunterrace. It's right on the edge of the beach and was nice and cool with the sea breezes.. Today I made the return journey of 70 miles and wasn't looking forward to it after hearing it was going to be hotter still. I set off this morning at 7 while it was a little cooler to avoid the mid day sun. It was comfortable cycling weather up until around 10 then the temp started to rise drastically. I didn't wear my bike helmet on the way back in vein to get a cooling breeze over my head. You could feel the heat difference between the old road surface and the new blackened tarmac. The new stuff was radiating the heat out like crazy and felt horrible to ride over. Plenty of drinking water and stops on the way home, and a dip in a shallow river I found on a secluded Snowdonia pass was lovely.
It was hard going but thoroughly enjoyable. Would it do it again? Absolutely! :-)
It was hard going but thoroughly enjoyable. Would it do it again? Absolutely! :-)
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Globalti
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I have ridden in temperatures over 30c in the Cape Argus race but you start at dawn and I carried two bottles with electrolyte tabs in them. On the first two years I got bad cramp but by year 3 I had either got fitter or got the water supply sorted so I didn't suffer cramp.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
British like only something named after a Polish-born Dutch-resident member of a German Hanseatic family can be!
So have I on holiday but it's less fun after getting up for work at 3am and cycling home in the heat of the afternoon...but I did improve after the shock of the first day.
