I can sort of relate. A few years back I did a ride around Napa Valley here in California. We were riding mountain bikes and the ride was about 55 miles. The temperature was between 95-100 but humidity was not so high. One of the strangest things was about 2/3 way through the ride, the water in my bottles was ambient temperature (98 degrees) so taking a drink of very warm water did not help cool you down at all. That was the biggest problem, cooling down.
Congrats on your ride! -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, June 9, 2008, 8:56:41 AM, you wrote: C> Yesterday (Sunday) was one degree F below the record high temperature. C> It was 98F, with a 110F heat index (which means humidity was insanely C> high too). So how did i spend my day? Why, going for a 100k bike ride C> for charity of course! The "Tour de Cure" for diabetes research rolled C> through town and a few of us from work set up a team for the 63 mile C> (100k) ride. The longest ride I'd done before this was 40 miles so I C> thought this would be a nice challenge and for a good cause. C> Here's the ol' Trek, resting after a metric century (Shot with the Optio S): C> http://links.pictures.aol.com/pic/af70brGLOS2f4K3nV1HBLLFUs7Jh4DTnmbJzv4xQp5Fd3Ig=_l.jpg C> http://tinyurl.com/6h79lo C> People have been asking "how was it?" C> Hot. C> Christian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
