Had a great weekend and a productive one to boot! My dad came up to visit and we got to spend a great Father’s Day weekend with him! Gave him a new cycling jersey just like the one that was torn up from his accident. It’s his favorite and might be the only one he ever wears, the New Mexico jersey. The f made him ribs which apparently turned out pretty good and was kind of a joke considering my dad’s own ribs are still recovering. I had some vegetarian “meatloaf”.
On Saturday I had a good run hadn’t ran hills in a while and did about 5.75 miles with 2.5 miles of uphill but what goes up must come down, yay! Sunday was a nice 25 mile bike ride also with some hills. With the smoke and allergies it made for a very snotty bike ride but I survived it. I have to admit it’s kind of gross when you are flying down the hill and you can feel the snot escaping your nostrils and not sure where it’s landing, ewwwww. Yeah well back in the day when I was still single I remember learning real fast that cycling dates usually wasn’t the best first impression, you’re dressed funny, you have to pretend that the lighting fast speed that seems so easy for them as they chat away is not making you lose your breath, and at the end you have to try and wipe yourself down inconspicuously and make sure there isn’t anything oozing out or some leftover saliva on your chin. J
So the f and I had a discussion about heat exhaustion and the two schools of thought on it. I believe you can acclimate to heat by training in it more and that once you’ve experienced heat exhaustion it doesn’t necessarily mean you are more prone to get it. He believes and has been told that you are more likely to have a heat “casualty” as he calls it, sounds so deadly, once you have had one. We looked up articles and it seems that the experts are still on the fence about this one. What is your opinion? This came up because on the days I’ve been doing my bike commutes I seem to be overheated the rest of the evening. Apparently one of the nights after tossing and turning for hours I got up and turned the swamp cooler on in my sleep, which is very unlike me. And when he asked me if I was ok I mumbled “I don’t feel right” Then later that morning I woke up freezing wandering why he had turned it on, Ha!
Happy Monday! A new week a new training schedule! :-)
3 comments:
- I like the jersey
- In my opinion, going downhill is harder on the legs then uphill, put way more stress on the legs. Easier to get down a hill, but the muscle fatigue in the quads are a killer
- I avoid the heat, I dont want to be a "casualty" If I am out in the heat, as long as I am sweating, I am good to go, but once the sweat stops, I panic, the first signs of heat stroke
I am a total snot machine on rides. Hot! LOL!
I tink we all have to get re-acclimated to the heat every summer. And it sucks. ;)
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