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Old 05-21-25 | 06:42 PM
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I lived in west Texas for a time, and found myself riding a club TT at 115F. I was acclimated and managed. Fast forward after a few years of living in the PNW and we had that heat wave a few years back, I thought I'd be fine riding the 5 miles home at 115F, due to Texas experience. Nope nope nope. I made it halfway and fortunately there was a Target to stumble into and cool down.

Acclimation is real, and heat tolerance does fall off with age.
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