Effin suvveners think the sun only shines on them.
Any northern guys been out? I did 70 miles, drank four bottles of water and haven't stopped drinking since I came home. Still not been for a pee. ⁹
Too work about to head back not ubber far but all up hill.
I'll be a massive puddle by the time I get home
Did degla black and felt bloody awful about halfway round. Three big bottles of water, 4 glasses of coke and got home and had 3 bottles of beer and I've still not had a wee.
Off to the Lady Canning work thing for 6. gonna be hot work.
27 miler in the Dales, not exactly going full gas. Only one big bottle on the ride, a few cans of Coke waiting for the train. I'm winning in the pissing competition though, I'm happy to report.
It's been thunder & lightning for the last few hours around here...
**** no, it's far too hot for exercise but we have been over to the allotment to do some pottering. The tomatoes are ripening at last!
Yeah, I'll have done 6 miles on the MTB today. Set no great times on Strava, just enjoyed it and it was lovely.
It’s been thunder & lightning for the last few hours around here…
Tell me about it!!! I went out at 8AM in a forlorn attempt to stay cool. Thunder has passed for now, but just seems to have made it hotter.
Headed out this morning for a quick couple of hours' spin. It was definitely hot and increasingly humid by the end. There's a few thunderstorms brewing now I think with strong winds heading towards them
Spun up to Loch Einich at 9 this morning. It was exceedingly breezy and we were happy with the cold spray off the loch. Many of the puddles were warm though.
Not me & maybe not a long ride but kudos to the bloke who had his fluorescent yellow rain jacket on today, hottest ever day in Edinburgh.
School holidays so has to try a bit on the turbo, wasn't a good idea.
It was 35deg when I went to pick the van up. Crawled there (2miles tops) on the commuter and was bathed in sweat. The thought of doing anything more does not appeal
Just looked at raintoday.co.uk and the big black clouds just missed us in the Skipton area and tracked northwards about 30km west of here. Some serious showers in there by the looks of things. Currently a band of storms from about Grasmere in the Lakes across to Barnard Castle or so.
Went out last night about 6.30pm, it was still really hot and muggy. Did one massive hill out of the Goyt Valley, fortunately had a nice long open descent to cool off on afterwards but I was a right little puddle of sweat when I got in.
Going to give the riding a miss tonight in favour of a cold beer and the TdF highlights.
I went for a run at 11 last night. Fabulous going through the pine woods in the dark and the cool evening air.
Did a good trusty old loop at grizedale today, parkamoor, bresty haw, claife heights and back for the black run.
It was hot, I sweated, but I'm alive!
1700ml of water plus a pint of coke in the boozer next to Beatrix potters house.
Made it back to the car just in time before the heavens opened. Watching the lightening over the Fylde Coast from the m6 on the way home was pretty impressive
I read an article on outsideonline.com titled 'What it feels like to die of heat stroke', whimpered a bit and crawled into the fridge to hide. Always carry an ice-bath kids 🙂
https://www.outsideonline.com/2398105/heat-stroke-signs-symptoms
10 miles in 33 degrees 10 mile loop with a swim in Rydal water with Gelato @ Kimis in Staveley
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how can thee ride bikes when ya supposed to be down pit ?
I walked down the road to the shop to buy all the ice cream and then walked back. Does that count?
Down't pit? That's for posh folk. I ain't got shoes to walk to't pit.
Sat in the paddling pool, thinking about biking
Yeah ..did a 30miler in the North Pennines ( full Bolts Law route )
The heat was brutal as was the weight of water I lugged around in my camelbak
Dry & dusty with the odd wet patch here and there ..half pissed now as I hit the " refreshment " in the fridge pretty hard when I got in ( no work tomorrow ) 😁
12 miles yesterday west of Durham at 1 pm - only time I can easily manage midweek. Mostly at full gas though and drank a pint and a half of water before leaving so didn't have any hydration issues. Love it though when the sun is out, and wet trails after the thunder storms keeps things interesting 🙂
10 miles around that there Heptonstall, I'm now sitting in a puddle of sweat, even the soles of my feet are sweating
70 miles?...... Of road biking? ...... my eight year old neice would laugh at that.
Real hills..... That's where it's at.
Only three pints to cool us down so I can't have been working hard enough.
But then I am just a Southern softie.
16km on the gravel bike, at 2000 once the heat had receded a bit. I’m not daft
But then I am just a Southern softie.
One of many!!!
10 mile 1800ft ascent winch and plummet in the woods, shade and breeze were welcome but I went through nearly 4 litres of fluid.
Well hard northerners lol! The long extinct stero type.
12km at leeds bike park, got out of the car and it felt like sticking my head in a hot oven and trying to breath, forgot my gloves and just couldnt grip bars, kept slipping so took it easier
Three hours in the Pennines and finished with a swim in a rock pool. Was ace.
I did an 18km, fairly hilly route from my door in Hudds. Closest I've come to vomming from exercise in a while!
Got home, got the garden hose out and doused my head to cool down.
Another 20 miler. 'Tis very sticky out.
Had a reet dab on, just taking bent axled pedal of the mashed threaded crankarm,Victim of Leeds bp last week.List of replacment bike bits, now thats making me sweat🥴
Northerner here, but down sarf. About 25 emiles(<1 battery seg) with a midway alfresco fry up at jumbos van. probably win interesting rights of way blockage prize - first blockage was a pop festival and blockage two was a bloke in a model t ford who was clearing a tree
A bit cooler today so 75km on the road bike, partially through some lovely, cool woodlands. Headwind was a pain at times.
24 miles yesterday from Langstrothdale, over Fleet Moss & down to Horton & back via Birkwith Moor.
3ltrs of water, a pork pie & an ice cream.
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Last two days I've been fitting a 'fitted wardrobe/units' to two walls of our bedroom - in this heat. Still not wee'd 🙂 Another day tomorrow and should be done.
Did degla black and felt bloody awful
Sorry you posted in the wrong thread! Llandegla is certainly not in the north