Heat fatigue
Aux1
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It's gotten real hot and damp here in the past few days, over 30 degrees celsius. I commute with my backpack and the city ride annoys me now... You simply can't ride easily, you have to brake, accelerate, avoid stuff, cars and people everywhere, actually it's even fun but not when it's this hot and your whole back gets soaking wet. Go, stop, avoid... It gets real strenuous then. Gonna buy those bags for the real wheel and dump the backpack in this heat!
Whenever I come back from a hurried city ride, I feel like cr@p for 15 minutes until I drink some water and have something sweet and cool down. It's worse than climbing a whole mountain in freedom, peace and shade. I feel I have no energy in the city, I can't go and step on it, jump, drop, I must conserve my strength. But when the sun goes down, I can go fast like mad and do all stuff, guess I don't tolerate heat and direct sun well.
So good my mountain trails are all in the shades of trees! I can still ride and climb normally on weekends. It's the city heat, the masses of cars, pedestrians, stops and the tarmac heat glare that drains you... I'd forbid all cars in the city lol, for all those healthy enough to ride bikes! [:D]
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Whenever I come back from a hurried city ride, I feel like cr@p for 15 minutes until I drink some water and have something sweet and cool down. It's worse than climbing a whole mountain in freedom, peace and shade. I feel I have no energy in the city, I can't go and step on it, jump, drop, I must conserve my strength. But when the sun goes down, I can go fast like mad and do all stuff, guess I don't tolerate heat and direct sun well.
So good my mountain trails are all in the shades of trees! I can still ride and climb normally on weekends. It's the city heat, the masses of cars, pedestrians, stops and the tarmac heat glare that drains you... I'd forbid all cars in the city lol, for all those healthy enough to ride bikes! [:D]
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KTM Ultra Flite 2007
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I would imagine a large part of feeling lethargic in town would be breathing in all those exhaust emissions from cars....maybe an anti-pollution mask might help?
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Remember those electrolytes in the hot weather.
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Ohh it's not that bad, I actually avoid major traffic arteries, and tend not to ride behind somebody's exhaust pipe... Just wanted to say how cars seem totally inappropriate in a city, how they make all the noise, heat, smell, how their poor drivers look bored and nervous, worrying about getting to work in time, finding parking spaces, paying fuel costs and car service while waiting in loooong queues at red lights and I just speed along on the bike. I mean, cars are a great invention, but out on the open road... Poor 5km-in-45-minutes city drivers, I kinda feel sorry for them [:(]
Btw, electrolytes, what's best to replenish them? Isotonic drinks maybe?
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Btw, electrolytes, what's best to replenish them? Isotonic drinks maybe?
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Best is something like Diarolyte, which a doctor might prescribe after food poisoning or severe diarrhoea, but a prescription is not required.
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