RodTi Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Hello all! Took a flip up Paarl Rock this afternoon. Got home as the wife arrived - temp on the car thermometer read 40deg, and this was well after 18h00... Even the breeze was hot. Ran out of water. Fell into the pool. Won't do this again soon. Which had me thinking about the Epic riders, and those other stage races... They get hot - don't they? So why not share some war-stories on what the hottest verifiable temperature was that you've ridden in, and how you felt on during the ordeal Me: I think I had an out-of-body experience, and had a casual chat with Hell's marketing department. I think I told them that based on my previous career - which apparently guarantees me a spot down there anyway - I'm not so scared anymore, since Paarl is hotter
Yang Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 45º on the Gorongosa road, Mozambique, about 4 years ago. Measured by the thermo in my Mitsubishi escorting bakkie. The road surface was chip and spray so wasn't melting, but I was. Without the escort car to supply water I would't have been able to ride.
The_Break Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 I pulled out of my first ever race in Kentucky last year. Was 40C with 90+% humidity and a hot blazing sun with 40 guys wacking it in a full blown Pro/CAT1 crit. There were not even enough finishers to complete the prize money properly. Boy was it hot!
GTRacing Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 56deg at 13:00 doing the van gaalens nissin race a few weeks back. felt the heat come of the ground.
vanniri Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 This morning at 5:30 it was 31deg on my balcony with no direct sun exposure(Salvador, Brazil). Drank 2 litres of fluid in 1,5 hours of training + 8 glasses of water before till now, went to the bathroom only 2 times today...
RodTi Posted January 4, 2011 Author Posted January 4, 2011 56deg at 13:00 doing the van gaalens nissin race a few weeks back. felt the heat come of the ground. No way!!! 56!!! Did the race organisers tell you guys that!? Would've thought they would have stopped things - that's pure insanity! I would've died. No two ways about it. Dead. Finish. Klaar.
epoh Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Somewhere in the 50's for a few hours through the Negev desert.
rudi-h Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 I think about 3 years ago they recorded 38deg C in the Umkumaas valley during day 2 of the Sani2C, being close to the C, they humidity was also no joke. I guess that's why they introduced the halfway stop with cold showers!!! Finished 2.5 x 3 litre camelback bladders that day!
_freak_ Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 56?!?!... weet darem niemy warmste was 45 in Marloth Park
Ingo Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 56?!?!... weet darem niemy warmste was 45 in Marloth Park Measured 44 at van Gaalens at around 11:30. But ask the same question again after Attas...
Bos Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Both of mine was unoficial, but I did a Solo Cederberg excursion( lekke stupid) end of feb last year. I had 110km to cover on my mtbike and I had to ride from ceris up Gaydo pass into the cederberg with a backpack. I left at 5am but by 13:00 I still had this hell of a climb to go, It was 100km of hell before and must have been well over 40, no shade in sight, my water had ran out 30 minutes before. I was in a spot of trouble actually. It took me more than a hour to get to the top of that pass, When I rode I breathed so hard I couldnt swallow(mouth had gone to dry) so I had to ride the easy bits in granny and then push the real steep bits. I stopped about 3 times where I literelly wanted to give up but I couldnt, there was no shade, no water, no cell phone reception, nothing. Probably the most Id ever suffered. Also the dumbest thing Id ever done. The second was last year at the Xterra Grabouw. Race started at 11am, swam for 30 minutes, then started a 24km mtb with 930m of climb.
rudi-h Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 hou op k@k praat: Volgens Wikipedia is die warmste temperatuur nog nooit gemeet: (1.6m bokant die grond gemeet) 57.8 °C (136.0 °F)Al 'Aziziyah, Libya13 September 1922. So indien wel, is Van Gaalens en sy kamma 56 grade Celcius moer naby aan die Hel
The_Break Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 hou op k@k praat: Volgens Wikipedia is die warmste temperatuur nog nooit gemeet: (1.6m bokant die grond gemeet) 57.8 °C (136.0 °F)Al 'Aziziyah, Libya13 September 1922. So indien wel, is Van Gaalens en sy kamma 56 grade Celcius moer naby aan die Hel Shade temp or????
Guest Big H Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 42*C in Angola between Ondjiva and Humbe. We had Camelbacks and two bottles each on the Tandem. It was not enough but we got water from the Chinese Contractor in Xangongo. Measured this on the Polar HRM. maybe the 56 was 56*F????????
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