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Bonking on a Hot Day

Bike Noob is pleased to present a guest post from John T. Cash. John T rides with the Noob occasionally, and he also comments here under the name “johnt.” He just took up biking last year. Over the weekend, he … Continue reading

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Hot Spots

One of the discouraging aspects of last weekend’s metric century was a recurrence of the hot spot in my foot that bothered me in last fall’s Imperial century. It creeps up on me. At first, I don’t notice it. Then … Continue reading

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I Think I Bonked – Almost

Guest poster Jeff Hemmel is back in Florida after summer in cool upstate New York — and he finds that reacclimating to hot, humid weather can be tricky. I like to think I’m in pretty good cycling shape. But today … Continue reading

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Today I Bought Bananas

It’s a mild summer in Austin. Here we are in August, and today will be our first 100-degree day of the year. That’s way different from last year, when we had 69 100-degree days — nearly every day during the … Continue reading

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Hot Weather Riding – A How-To

Well, summer is here, and that means hot weather riding. We’ve already talked about dealing with humidity. And for many of us, getting an earlier start helps beat the heat. But you can ride when the midday sun is beating … Continue reading

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Handling Humidity

Texas — and much of the rest of country, from what I’ve been seeing online – is going through a patch of very humid weather. I really felt its effects on last weekend’s club ride. I was drenched in sweat … Continue reading

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Biting off more than we can chew

I bonked today. But so did four of the six who started our Sunday morning “B” ride. It started out routinely enough. We were going to do a well-known biking route, the “Tour de Austin.” As the name implies, it’s … Continue reading

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Beating the heat

We had a bunch of errands to run this morning, then the grass needed cutting. I can stay home some weekdays, so today was a day to attend to those chores. By the time I was done and starting to … Continue reading

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It’s a long, slow road to progress

Today should have been a great ride. I decided to combine two rides I do often into one, and come out with about 35 miles. I did the ride as recently as last week. But today it was agony. Things … Continue reading

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Finally — a break in the heat

I had a post all ready to go tonight, moaning about the record hot temperatures we’ve endured in central Texas for the last two weeks, and how it’s affected my biking (I don’t get out as much). But a little … Continue reading

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