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I did a road ride about 4.30 - 6.30 tonight. Got into the relative cool of my house and then the sweating started, I was absolutely dripping.
Got through 3 bottles of water in 30 miles - filled up at a water fountain when I was empty, drank an entire bottle right there, refilled it and it was empty again 10 miles later when I got home.
Ride was hot! Not so bad under the trees but proper 'Spanish Summer' on the fire-roads
Beer was cold tho. And now it's lovely out in the garden.
Chuffin' hell Martin!
Spent yesterday and today sorting out foundations so that we can move the greenhouse. 150x100 x2.4m lintels take a bit of shifting in this heat as does a tonne of hardcore!
Chuffin’ hell Martin!
Indeed it is. 🙂
I prefer that to shifting concrete in this heat, though.
I,m sleeping in the back garden tonight. My house is to hot for me after today's ride.Just been sussed out by my local bat!Very exciting.
No. It's barely 20c here. Got my thick socks and winter boots on.
(Southern Hemisphere, innit)
My flat is nice and cool.
I almost fainted yesterday when i went out to hang the washing up I had a jumper on!
Mind you tshirt for me at about 16 degrees and total body shutdown at about 22 degreees so being inside suits me fine!
Fortunately for us there is a witch or some other kind of evil spirit buried under the lounge. The tarmac is melting outside and it's still cold in there.
Just woke up in a 30 degree bedroom. Having second thoughts about tonight’s Zwift time trial...
Not quite as hot up here, last nights ride up and round the locals and some bike park fun was brilliant, bit of rain has the tracks riding primo!.
Track session with a run club mate tonight, 12x500m. Gonna be fun.
Warm night, 20C at midnight from local Wunderground station, now already reading 24C! 😮
1.5l of fridge cooled water just about got me around a mostly sub z3 40-miler last night that was ~30C, any short sharp efforts left me gasping for the fluid!
Lounge felt lovely when I first surface ~30mins ago after leaving the windows open and the curtains drawn, but already feels like the temp is rapidly rising.
If I pop out before the possibe thunderstorms from 1600ish, I think it might be a day to use at least two of the 1l squash bottles I have chilled in the fridge and possibly my Camelbak Ice from the freezer on the Topeak bar/post cage mount!
What I want to know is why, when architects are asked to design schools they just build greenhouse? I mean old 50's and 60's schools I can understand they were just built with any old bits of asbestos and glass that were lying around but more modern ones are a mystery to me.
Water bottles one third full and frozen. Take fill and add juice. Ice cold drinks all day. Extra points if you use an insulated flask.
Keep doors open and windows open on opposite sides of the house. If you have Velux windows, open them and access doors. Air has to move to provide natural ventilation.
If all else fails#, ice pack placed on the wrist or run your wrist under the cold tap. DARPA looked at chilled gloves to improve soldier performance and endurance in hot climates.
Hottest place in the country yesterday (32.6C). I quite like it hot actually.
#including the air conditioner in the loft room. Where son2 lives and studies.
ANother top tip in addition to the above, open your loft hatch.
Loft Hatch? Really? Our loft is the hottest place because of course heat rises and it has black felt under the tiles, but does it realistically have anywhere to go fast enough, or will the hotter air "fall" through it?
Done a run, my first exercise in, ooo, four months this morning (and wasn't doing a lot before then) - at 7 o'clock it was jaaaaam hot.
For tomorrow's repeat I might get up at 4.
Ride out at 6am - a fresh 13°, was lovely.
Up to 18° by the time I got back, already feeling sticky.
open your loft hatch
I tried this once, never again. It's roasting up there and feels like the warm air defies physics to pour through the hole! Must be radiating out. If yours is well ventilated or has an openable window up there then fill your boots.
Think I'll have to break out the Ebike for todays ride.
Far to hot for a normal pedal.
First thing in the morning open up everything and close all the curtains. Then when the temps climb you can close the windows to try and keep the 30C air out. This only works if you have good blackout curtains, as thin ones will just let solar radiation in anyway.
First thing in the morning open up everything and close all the curtains. Then when the temps climb you can close the windows to try and keep the 30C air out. This only works if you have good blackout curtains, as thin ones will just let solar radiation in anyway.
Back in the spare room, windows open all night, blackout blinds down - still 26deg at 9.48am. I suspect I shall be a puddle by midday.
Won’t last, Thunderstorms later..
Did a ride in the lakes yesterday and it blew me apart did 4lts water with out going for a piss.
Ended up drinking from becks and a spring
Its so hot in my classroom two hobbits just opened the door and lobbed a ring in!
Did a ride in the lakes yesterday and it blew me apart did 4lts water with out going for a piss.Ended up drinking from becks and a spring
One of the massive pains of lockdown is the severely restricted cafe/supermarket/pub options for refuelling.
On the plus side, I now know where all the outside taps are in a 40 mile radius of mine!
On the plus side, I now know where all the outside taps are in a 40 mile radius of mine!
There used to be a convenient one on an old barn in the Chilterns, conveniently on the edge of what I could ride on a bottle and probably fed from a tank full of leigionella and dead pigeon but it never killed me.
It's now been re developed into a massive house and I've not found a replacement 🙁
Loft Hatch? Really? Our loft is the hottest place because of course heat rises and it has black felt under the tiles, but does it realistically have anywhere to go fast enough, or will the hotter air “fall” through it?
Our's is just a curtain across the ladder/stairs, but yep it's open and so is the velux in the loft.
I imagine it only encourages cooling if the loft is ventilated enough to let the warm air out.
Seems to work best for us late afternoon/evening as once the house has warmed up the upstairs is sweltering unless you give the air somewhere to go.
Was looking forward to a ride today, shall not be bothering
Just back from a 25 miler, mix of road and tracks with as few hills as practicable. Drank 3 litres of water without needing to per and just downed another litre as I got in. 22-23 degrees is my limit usually so this 30+ is hellish.
Nah, today was a nice cool 39degC so garden time with the kids and then going for an evening bike ride.
3 year old complained of cold exiting a paddling pool yesterday as it was 35degC!
Couldn’t face working at home today so I decided to face it on the bike instead. 75 miles to the south downs and back, mostly tarmac but some nice excursions off piste including the stretch of the South Downs from Lewis to jack and Jill. Absolutely roasting up there though, the breeze seemed to be missing the ridge line.
Extra water carriage didn’t quite get me home so had to dip into a corner shop for a coke and an ice cream about 7 miles out. Now attempting to get all that water back in me.
I've been putting up a new fence in full sun since 10am! I'm just about to head into the shaded part of the job. Herself is really enjoying this, I've sent her out in the car (to enjoy the aircon) to collect the spade for me to do a bit of digging.
Just did a 20mile pootle with stupid tarphat on and two bottles with iced water on the bike. Then called in the supermarket and bought 8 beers from the fridge and have practically inhaled 2 of them sitting under an oak tree in the middle of a field as I watch the red kites going about their businessdidnt get much above zone 3.5 on the ride.
cellar dweller here (well the office and turbo are down here)
its been a solid 18.5 all day :p
39 in my mancave. Took my bottles out of the freezer to defrost an hour ago. Zwift TTT here I come (gulp).
26 miles from home to and round some lovely tracks at the local Windfarm. Out at 10, back about 1230 by which time it was about 27 degrees. Bumped into a couple of older chaps early in the ride, on ebikes, who were keen to know the best route in and around so I gave them a tour. Just about bloody killed me and my HR was doing things the cardiologist says I’ve to avoid... it is only now back to something approaching normal !
I was on my Genesis Fugio, shoulda taken the ebike too !
@crazy-legs - I recall doing a handful of Munros by Crianlairich with @donald, weather was stonking so it was a full day of heather bashing. On the way back, roasting hot, passed a low capacity burn gurgling past. Were both down to t shirts and shorts anyway, t shirts off, lying face up in 1' of tepid water, magic. Then some other walkers headed past, rather quickly I thought.
Main job today was changing a large motor in the blower room, which is pretty warm in the middle of winter.
Took the thermographic camera in and the 12 blowers in there were all over 80C 😮
3 hours later in full PPE & masks we were finished and I mean finished!
All my clothes were sodden and my eyes sting from the sweat dripping in them, to cap it all i'm on call this week 🙁
Ah, after a scorching morning, the heat has broken and we're at a balmy 25deg. Perfect.
Got out early today as it was overcast with a bit of wind. Still very muggy but comfortable enough on the bike. Been back an hour now and the cloud has gone so the temperature is rising up again.
I had a moment of inspiration this morning, after two days of insane heat... I set up my Honeywell E900(?) turbo fan by the pc! 😆
Has anybody installed a split AC in the upstairs landing so as to cool the whole house? With decent insulation and DG windows I reckon it ought to work pretty well.
I live in a hot country so split ACs in every room. In fact our open plan area has four!
My experience is that they generally only work properly for the immediate area they're actually in. Don't expect satellite rooms to be cooled (without making the hall a fridge and still not great) or even a larger open plan to be uniform. The cool area doesn't really spread out much unless you get a fan involved.
Best to pick a living space, eg an open plan living room or kitchen diner and have this as the cool space. Basically, you'll end up with a lovely cool landing and an OK hallway. Probs not the priority!
Works surprisingly well with a curtain across and open door to outside if you want kids coming in and out. If that makes sense.
If sleeping is the issue then it's tricker. Making sure the room, and everything in it, doesn't heat up during the day helps. Doors, curtains, windows closed. Then open windows at night with a fan to get cool air in and give a breeze.