How are you coping with the heat?

[BigonaBianchi]

Heat?....this is how it should always be!

I find riding in the sunshine much easier than the cold driving wind and rain that blesses this part of the world 80% of the year.

Heat is what happened in Kansas...this is 'pleasant'.

 

[Cubist]

Haven't been able to ride to work as every day I've needed the car for work, but making up for it by some late rides..... 9 pm starts with lights for the last stretches.

 

[Rob3rt]

Not been out on the road, but parked on the turbo riding in just my shorts with a massive fan and next to an open 6ft window I have noted that my power has been down during this "heat wave", about 10W down on the last couple of Sweetspot sessions (HR unknown since the strap gave out last week and Garmin haven't sorted it yet, but I suspect HR would have been elevated), absolutely dripping in sweat and unable to drink enough to cope with the rate of sweating without feeling sick from all the liquid.

 

[Peteaud]

Working a 12 hour shift in an un airconditioned machine shop with 40 or so lathes and mills throwing out a nice warm heat does drain me a bit so really have not been out.

 

[numbnuts]

it's better than freezing your nuts off

 

[Saluki]

I'm coping by bitching and moaning, eating Soleros and sitting in various states of undress on the sofa.

Sounds like me when indoors. Our flat is boiling hot, even with all the windows open. Our cold water Axolotl tank has those ice-cooler things floating in it and being changed every 6 hours to keep the water temperature vaguely cool. The dogs are miserable with the heat and being walked at 5am and 9pm and a couple of quick pee outings in-between.

Outside, for riding my bike, I am adoring the weather. Lovely sunshine, got my first leg tan since leaving Australia and my customers are laughing at my 'stripes'. Its far lovelier outside than inside. I am out on the bike most evenings and its fantastic.

Calipo lolly things have become my best friend in-between clients though. The car is baking!

 

[Lanzecki]

I'm not coping. I'm in an air conditioned office for 10 hours a day, going outside it like walking into a brick wall. The car is just stupid. My aircon has been, for the last few years has been like an asthmatic, but I've never really needed it.

Monday morning I thought I'd check the cabin filters were not blocked... Here is the result. I'm now having a chat with my local main dealer that's serviced my Jeep every 15000km. If they didn't change the cabin filters, what else havn't they changed.

I've left the filters out and the aircon is now like sitting in a fridge The problem is that I'm now in an aircon'd building and Jeep. So when out of them I'm sweating like a sweaty thing in a sweating competition.

Cycling, 11pm, or 6am (much better)

 

[SamC]

After a week of cycling in Zante where it was 37 degrees and like cycling with someone holding a hairdryer on full 1cm away from your face, this weather is lovely!

It is thirsty work though. I drank loads in 32 miles yesterday, whereas last week I did the same ride without drinking anything.

 

[tyred]

[QUOTE 2540903, member: 30090"]By covering myself in mirrors.

Not only does it keep me cool by reflecting heat, but it's great for alerting other road users to my presence.[/quote]


Are you Noddy Holder?

 

[Brandane]

I'm coping by bitching and moaning, eating Soleros and sitting in various states of undress on the sofa.

Come home ABV; it's not TOO hot up here! Mid 20s, so very comfortable. Did the 3 ferries route yesterday (Gourock/Dunoon; Rhubodach/Colintraive; Rothesay/Wemyss Bay) and it was as good a cycle as you could get anywhere. 52 miles though, and not sure if that is what has sapped my energy today! Went out this morning and caved in at the 20 mile mark . So today I am coping with the heat - by being lazy .

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

That sounds wonderful! I took my hybrid over to Rothesay this time two years ago and tried to cycle around it in a jersey dress and leggings and almost died by the time I got to that posh house with the garden centre. I think it was about 30 degrees that day with no breeze and not one of my best ideas (especially given the amount of gin my mother poured down my neck on the ferry over).

 

[R600]

Heat wave' i live 20 miles from john o'groats . What heatwave!!

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Well, recovery is well known to be an important part of recovery, so allow yourself some!

Yes I guess you are right I will have a rest tonight as my legs are aching a bit.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Do they do

My cycling mates are always going on at me because I never wear my sunglasses. On Saturday a bee hit me square in the right eye whilst I was going at about 25mph. I now wear sunglasses.

sun glasses without the shading element?...Gogles if you will? It's often hot and muggy but not sunny so some sort of eye rpotection is needed from the beasties and perhaps even a mesh for ones mush.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Heat wave' i live 20 miles from john o'groats . What heatwave!!

Not north of, I hope.