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 

that's what you get for living in HELL.

ericcox

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

botto 

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

ElJamoquio

Mmmm. Racing in the heat. I love it.

UT_Dude

You're racing?!

waterrockets 

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 horse**** 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 

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 You can always put more clothes on, but you can't take them off past a point.

botto 

waterrockets 

...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.

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 

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

ElJamoquio

Uphill both ways!!!

ElJamoquio

Riding in hail truly sucks ass.

botto 

dude, it's currently 52°F here.

UT_Dude

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