ScottM
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iBazinga!
Let me start by saying that I do ride bicycles a lot. So what I did today is not an infrequent type of activity to me.
Today I set out for a nice ride. It was the biking with Benzie ride through the rolling flat landed corn and soybean fields of central Illinois. I decided to do the 75k instead of the 100k as the temps today are to be in the middle 90's with high humidity and no clouds. I started at 6:30 am for my ride with two partners. By the first rest step I was already having problems but they were no bad.
Prior to the ride I drank 24oz of fluid, during the first 9 miles to the first rest stop I again consumed 24oz of water. I was warm at the first stop but not too hot, my energy reserves were great and my legs had loosened up nicely. I drank another 24oz of water at the stop and had a banana. Then I took off for the next stop about 19 miles away.
During that leg the temps had started to climb. I drank 24oz of water and 24oz of water+cytomax (high tech Gatorade). I did start to feel a little energy depleted and very hot. That is when I noticed I just was not sweating.
The last ride I had sweat like a pig, on a 100k ride I urinate about twice the entire time. On this ride by 15 miles I had urinated 3 times eventually 7 times by the end. Before you think this so strange, on these long rides to survive you have to know that you are eating and drinking enough so counting things like that is pretty normal. The frequent urination was telling me I was getting enough fluids.
When I got to the second rest stop, I was feeling a little dizzy and very warm, my skin was clamy but not wet. So I drank 48oz of fluid, ate another banana, and had a 1/2 PBJ. I spent about thirty minutes resting in the shade before taking off.
Once on the road again I started having trouble right away. I could not think straight, was dizzy, and headachy. These symptoms plague me all the way home. I had to pull over 4 miles later and lay in shade, pour water over my head and rest. When I felt better I started again, two miles later a flat, DOH! Had to change that and the SAG wagon came along and gave me some cold water. But I was feeling good again so off I went.
By the time I got to the third stop I had consumed 68oz of water during that leg. I had another 24oz while I waited and rested in the shade. Then I took off for the last leg. I was still not sweating much if at all and I was getting worried. I had to stop about every 4 miles from the heat which was tremendous!!
At the end another 24 oz of water, a couple of pieces of cool watermelon and a rinse down in the bathroom to cool off. I still had to drive home and had to stop a couple of times to go inside an air conditioned restaurant (no air in the car).
This was so strange I never really sweated yet my riding partners did quite a bit and they of course did not have heat problems. My energy was fine the whole ride it was just the heat.
Any ideas?
Today I set out for a nice ride. It was the biking with Benzie ride through the rolling flat landed corn and soybean fields of central Illinois. I decided to do the 75k instead of the 100k as the temps today are to be in the middle 90's with high humidity and no clouds. I started at 6:30 am for my ride with two partners. By the first rest step I was already having problems but they were no bad.
Prior to the ride I drank 24oz of fluid, during the first 9 miles to the first rest stop I again consumed 24oz of water. I was warm at the first stop but not too hot, my energy reserves were great and my legs had loosened up nicely. I drank another 24oz of water at the stop and had a banana. Then I took off for the next stop about 19 miles away.
During that leg the temps had started to climb. I drank 24oz of water and 24oz of water+cytomax (high tech Gatorade). I did start to feel a little energy depleted and very hot. That is when I noticed I just was not sweating.
The last ride I had sweat like a pig, on a 100k ride I urinate about twice the entire time. On this ride by 15 miles I had urinated 3 times eventually 7 times by the end. Before you think this so strange, on these long rides to survive you have to know that you are eating and drinking enough so counting things like that is pretty normal. The frequent urination was telling me I was getting enough fluids.
When I got to the second rest stop, I was feeling a little dizzy and very warm, my skin was clamy but not wet. So I drank 48oz of fluid, ate another banana, and had a 1/2 PBJ. I spent about thirty minutes resting in the shade before taking off.
Once on the road again I started having trouble right away. I could not think straight, was dizzy, and headachy. These symptoms plague me all the way home. I had to pull over 4 miles later and lay in shade, pour water over my head and rest. When I felt better I started again, two miles later a flat, DOH! Had to change that and the SAG wagon came along and gave me some cold water. But I was feeling good again so off I went.
By the time I got to the third stop I had consumed 68oz of water during that leg. I had another 24oz while I waited and rested in the shade. Then I took off for the last leg. I was still not sweating much if at all and I was getting worried. I had to stop about every 4 miles from the heat which was tremendous!!
At the end another 24 oz of water, a couple of pieces of cool watermelon and a rinse down in the bathroom to cool off. I still had to drive home and had to stop a couple of times to go inside an air conditioned restaurant (no air in the car).
This was so strange I never really sweated yet my riding partners did quite a bit and they of course did not have heat problems. My energy was fine the whole ride it was just the heat.
Any ideas?