Global Warming? (OK, maybe not)

[UT_Dude]

Is it just Texas right now? We haven't had a high lower than 97 for like...the past week or so in Austin. Worse yet, when the actual highs hit, they've been about 4 degrees higher than the published highs, so we've been over 100 almost every day. Next Tuesday, we're predicted to hit 103, so 107??

I'm racing both this weekend and next weekend, and both times, my race falls at about 3 in the afternoon, so it's gonna be HOT! Worse yet, all of the races are downtown crits with tons of concrete and buildings around to block wind.

Yuck! Oh well, gotta adapt, right?

[wanders]

Evolve.:)

[Second Mouse]

It snowed down to about 7,000' here yesterday. Been an unusually brisk spring/early summer. Me likey.

[ericcox]

I don't know why, but the heat is sapping me more this year too. Normally, I don't mind riding in the heat too much, but the past week has really been really draining for me.

We got spoiled by a nice spring and last year's June deluge.

So, Chris, being a college student and all, do me a favor and ride out to Barton Springs for a nice relaxing swim so I can live vicariously through you.

[UT_Dude]

Haha, I wish. I'm stuck in a boring office with no windows :(

It just seems like it's gotten a *lot* hotter considerably earlier than it usually does this year. Lame.

[ericcox]

^^ One factor is that it isn't cooling off. Much has been made by one of our weather guys that we set record high lows for a week straight. For several days, it never got below 80.

[botto]

Is it just Texas right now? We haven't had a high lower than 97 for like...the past week or so in Austin. Worse yet, when the actual highs hit, they've been about 4 degrees higher than the published highs, so we've been over 100 almost every day. Next Tuesday, we're predicted to hit 103, so 107??

I'm racing both this weekend and next weekend, and both times, my race falls at about 3 in the afternoon, so it's gonna be HOT! Worse yet, all of the races are downtown crits with tons of concrete and buildings around to block wind.

Yuck! Oh well, gotta adapt, right?

that's what you get for living in HELL.

[ericcox]

that's what you get for living in HELL.

Actually, both of us live just north of Hell, er, Houston, so purgatory is probably more apt.

[botto]

Actually, both of us live just north of Hell, er, Houston, so purgatory is probably more apt.

hell is bigger than france, didn't you know?

[waterrockets]

Yeah, coming off the hill I work on for the 5pm commute home feels like I'm riding into a furnace. It's into the sun, and into the wind every night. So the IR is reflecting off the pavement, hitting me in the face twice, and the wind is blowing the heated (by pavement) air right at me. 400W to get down this hill, and I can barely get over 20mph. Once I turn sideways to it, it's not that bad though.

I did hill repeats at 100 degrees yesterday, and just decided to play it safe and only do 4. I brought three bottles for that 1.25 hour ride.

I'm holding up in it better than I thought, but 20 minute intervals are just about impossible to churn out the right power for.

Tonight, the Driveway crit :D

[ElJamoquio]

Mmmm. Racing in the heat. I love it.

[UT_Dude]

You're racing?!

Tonight, the Driveway crit :D

[waterrockets]

You're racing?!

I know, it's rare. I'm going to see if I can time my bridge a little better this time.

[patentcad]

Come to Manhattan and do a Spring Series Race in Central Park. It's usually a few degrees on either side of 30ºF, it's dark, and sometimes it's windy and raining. We won't even talk about the horsesiht you get coated with in the rain.

You Texas guys make me laugh. Hey, wear a Camelbak!

Just be happy it's hot, not wet, dark and cold. Or icy. Jeesh.

[waterrockets]

Come to Manhattan and do a Spring Series Race in Central Park. It's usually a few degrees on either side of 30ºF, it's dark, and sometimes it's windy and raining. We won't even talk about the horsesiht you get coated with in the rain.

You Texas guys make me laugh. Hey, wear a Camelbak!

Just be happy it's hot, not wet, dark and cold. Or icy. Jeesh.

Bah.

I did two weeks of 34F rides in the rain in Austin this winter, and didn't miss one day. I'm from Colorado. I've podiumed in downhill races on ski slopes in Feb. I've come back from road rides with 1/2" of ice covering my shoes. I've snowshoed at night, backpacking to pitch a tent and camp at -10F at 10,000 feet.

I can take the cold and the heat.

[UT_Dude]

Give me the Cold and Rain any day over this kinda heat :P You can always put more clothes on, but you can't take them off past a point.

[botto]

Bah.

I did two weeks of 34F rides in the rain in Austin this winter, and didn't miss one day. I'm from Colorado. I've podiumed in downhill races on ski slopes in Feb. I've come back from road rides with 1/2" of ice covering my shoes. I've snowshoed at night, backpacking to pitch a tent and camp at -10F at 10,000 feet.

I can take the cold and the heat.

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/216500/216507ntVS_w.jpg

[waterrockets]

:roflmao2:

...now it's getting cold in here. Anyway, I'm not going to have anybody tell me I can't handle some cold weather just because I carry a TX driver's license. :thumb:

[ericcox]

Yeah, the hot wind makes the commute even more fun. My ride is about 80% into the headwind on the way home. At least that translates into a tailwind in the morning...

And Pcad -- quit yer whinin' I got caught out in a lovely thunderstorm the other day. Nothing like 40-50 mph wind gust, and the threat of hail (in hell) and tornados to make life interesting.

Botto -- the thing about hell is we're not sure how big it is. Maybe we need to get into a discussion of layers of hell. Let me consult Dante.

[dmotoguy]

its been a ****ty cold spring/summer here... its still in the 60's in mid june!!! and an hour from here it got 6" of snow yesterday..

[botto]

Yeah, the hot wind makes the commute even more fun. My ride is about 80% into the headwind on the way home. At least that translates into a tailwind in the morning...

And Pcad -- quit yer whinin' I got caught out in a lovely thunderstorm the other day. Nothing like 40-50 mph wind gust, and the threat of hail (in hell) and tornados to make life interesting.

Botto -- the thing about hell is we're not sure how big it is. Maybe we need to get into a discussion of layers of hell. Let me consult Dante.

to quote Camus, from The Fall: Have you noticed that Amsterdam's concentric canals resemble the circles of hell?

[ElJamoquio]

I did two weeks of 34F rides in the rain in Austin this winter, and didn't miss one day. I'm from Colorado. I've podiumed in downhill races on ski slopes in Feb. I've come back from road rides with 1/2" of ice covering my shoes. I've snowshoed at night, backpacking to pitch a tent and camp at -10F at 10,000 feet.

Uphill both ways!!!

[ElJamoquio]

the threat of hail

Riding in hail truly sucks ass.

[botto]

its been a ****ty cold spring/summer here... its still in the 60's in mid june!!! and an hour from here it got 6" of snow yesterday..

dude, it's currently 52°F here.

[UT_Dude]

Everyone who has temperatures below 70 degrees right now, I hate you. That is all.

[patentcad]

I can't believe it snowed outside Seattle this week. I get the feeling 'outside Seattle' means up the Snoqualmie Pass, and I think that's 50+ miles east of Seattle.

[patentcad]

Everyone who has temperatures below 70 degrees right now, I hate you. That is all.

I had the arm warmers and the Don't Flatten Me Yellow Fred jacket on when I left here @ 7AM. By 7:30AM the jacket was stowed under my favorite pickituponthewayhome log and the arm warmers were off.

[ericcox]

dude, it's currently 52°F here.

And TX sucks? I will stop complaining now.

Actually, the answer is that we should all live in San Diego.

[ElJamoquio]

No. San Diego is evil. Evil I say. Don't move there. If you currently live there, leave.

[UT_Dude]

It's not *that* bad....to visit. I don't know if I'd want to live there, but my mom's whole family is out there, so we visit often enough and I like it.

[botto]

Everyone who has temperatures below 70 degrees right now, I hate you. That is all.

yet another post where you whine about something. how unique.

[merlinextraligh]

84 here in Florida. Actually rather pleasant.

[brians647]

84 here in Florida. Actually rather pleasant.

Yeah, that is. I thought you were supposed to be suffering almost as badly as the Texans right about now?

[UT_Dude]

Eh, like I said, it's unusually hot for us right now. Then again, most people are probably envious of our Winter weather. Gotta take the good with the bad! Texas (or really Austin) is still a great place to live.

[jkizzle]

ditto. i have to bring cologne with me everywhere to cover up my sweat smell. i guess commuting on a fixed gear doesnt help, not being able to coast and whatnot.

[ericcox]

Got home. Thanks to the heat, my wheels now look like this:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1015/623010589_f9e825787a.jpg?v=0

A banana and much water has me feeling better. Now to cook fajitas for dinner.

edited to fix image tags

[merlinextraligh]

Yeah, that is. I thought you were supposed to be suffering almost as badly as the Texans right about now?

Proximity to the ocean moderates things.

[CCFISH81]

HTFU?? I dont miss the heat- I left houston May 4th right before the serious heat came up from hell-

I miss it.... a little maybe...