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Old 06-28-11, 10:04 PM
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Riding in hot weather gets you used to riding in hot weather. See http://www.sportsci.org/encyc/heataccl/heataccl.html
If you overheat you can't put out as much power, so you get less of a training benefit. And there is some danger of heat stroke.
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