Temps are down. Speeds are up.
 

I swear that heat absolutely kills me on the bike. Now that temps are lower, I have been going considerably faster. I wish race season was in the fall here.

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Ditto here.

Wouldn't help on race season, everyone else would be going faster, too. Consider randonneuring, ride year round.

Getting cooler ever day... tick tock, tick tock

As long as I have water, the heat doesn't seem to bother me. I usually ride in the mornings, so that helps. I would much rather cycle in heat than in the cold, if I had to pick a poison.

The temperature has been going up here.

I envy all of you.

If you were going fast enough, the heat wouldnt bother you because of the wind. :whistle:
But yes, usually its easier to go faster when its 70 F than 95 F

I can always put on more clothing if it is cold; there is only so much I can take off (especially in public) if it is hot. Thusly, I much prefer cold to hot :)

When it's hot, I ride faster to have a breeze. And when it's hot, the air is slightly less damp, putting up less resistance. If it were a million degrees, I could go the speed of light!

Its near the freezing mark in the morning. Good times are over........

exactly what I was thinking.

What's "considerably faster"?
It's been discussed ad nasuem that avg mph is a worthless bit of data, but I'm still interested only because I'm completely the opposite, if I prepare correctly I tend to be much faster in the heat (at least that's what the numbers over the last 3 years say).

FWIW - it's all mental, if you're racing in the heat everyone else is suffering as much as you are.
Some just don't bother thinking about it. Or if they are, they're thinking about how much the heat is bothering the other racers and using it to their advantage.

my 2cents

It was still 110 degrees F here today. Definitely not getting cooler.

Heat effects everyone differently. I'm largely unaffected by it but I have a buddy I ride with who barely sweats at all and he does terrible whenever its hot (85F+).

But it's a dry heat.
Here on the east coast we have this thing called humidity which makes 95 degrees feel like 110.
So I guess we're even in that respect.

I was in SC all summer in the high 90s w/ that humidity. I can tell you that it sucks both ways, and both have their pros and cons.

You need to move to Prescott, best weather in the world.

True that. My blood would love training in that 6000 feet elevation too.

So back to the subject at hand, doesn't your body expend more energy trying to stay warm than it does trying to keep cool?
But then again, Lance's coach Anthony Lim says the trick to being fast in the heat is to keep your core temperature low - so maybe a "cooling vest" filled with ice cubes is the answer to getting that speed back up there in the summer months.

Temps are down. Speeds are up.

effing A!

Let's bring this up again in January.

Extremes are not good in either scenario. Really Hot and Humid here in the Big Greasy but thats what we get for have mild winters. Its road bike season pretty much all year round though:innocent:

My avatar wants a threesome with your avatar and ptle's.

What will it take to arrange that?

To answer the how much faster I have noticed a 1ish mph increase on rides of the same intensity and length. May not seem like much, but it also feels a thousand times easier to keep it at a high pace. My HRM has been on average 5 bpm lower on rides as well. Kansas has the worst heat (ive traveled) and now that its been in the 70s/60s the last few rides I have been flying.

My main riding partner is small, 5 4' 125ish (I am 6 2' 180). He kills me in the heat, but I have been dropping him lately. Something I havent done in 4 months. Im sure a big part is mental, but I just cannot go hard in 95+ temps. The humidity is also down. Which makes it feel 20 degrees cooler around here.

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