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Re: Cycling and heat exhaustion
Posted: 16 Jul 2022, 6:56pm
by Tiggertoo
My typical Sunday hike is around 15 miles and I can get through 2-3 24 oz bottles in that time in 90+ heat. When it is a lot cooler I need a lot less water.
Re: Cycling and heat exhaustion
Posted: 18 Jul 2022, 7:11am
by Sweep
Someone at film4 has a sense of humour.
Today as the sun reaches its height they are showing White Christmas.
Re: Cycling and heat exhaustion
Posted: 18 Jul 2022, 8:12am
by Cugel
Tiggertoo wrote: ↑16 Jul 2022, 6:56pm
My typical Sunday hike is around 15 miles and I can get through 2-3 24 oz bottles in that time in 90+ heat. When it is a lot cooler I need a lot less water.
Well .... I was brought up with the imperial system, including that Farenheit. However, I notice that the less commonly used imperial measurements have now faded from my wetware as the metric has slowly been installed.
Inches, feet and yards - no problem, even though millimetres, centimetres and metres are now the lengths I mentally visualise when doing woodwork or any other activity involving lengths. But ounces for liquid measurement? A mystery. And the only Farenheit temperatures I seem able to grok are 0 & 72. Even the in-between values are no longer useful to me in deciding how to dress for a bike ride.
Only that revolutionary colony over the Atlantic, with one or two other ossified backwaters, seem to retain the imperial measurements. Perhaps they have a secret hanker for a monarchy tending to the absolute sort - that tea-abuse was all a mistake? Great King Trumpet perhaps? He would surely favour rods and chains, of both kinds.
Cugel, supping litres as a forecast 33 degrees (not-F) degrees impends.
Re: Cycling and heat exhaustion
Posted: 18 Jul 2022, 8:32am
by Jdsk
Cugel wrote: ↑18 Jul 2022, 8:12amAnd the only Farenheit temperatures I seem able to grok are 0 & 72.
Is that 0 °F or 32 °F?
Cugel wrote: ↑18 Jul 2022, 8:12amOnly that revolutionary colony over the Atlantic, with one or two other ossified backwaters, seem to retain the imperial measurements.
The USA is much more metric than commonly thought:
viewtopic.php?p=1702139
Jonathan
Re: Cycling and heat exhaustion
Posted: 18 Jul 2022, 8:59am
by Cugel
Jdsk wrote: ↑18 Jul 2022, 8:32am
Cugel wrote: ↑18 Jul 2022, 8:12amAnd the only Farenheit temperatures I seem able to grok are 0 & 72.
Is that 0 °F or 32 °F?
Jonathan
Gawd, only the 72 F remains in me head then! I recall it as the temperature of a very warm but bearable day on Marsden beach, when I was 11 years old, 173 years ago.
Cugel, modernised in parts.
Re: Cycling and heat exhaustion
Posted: 18 Jul 2022, 9:03am
by Jdsk
: - )
Jonathan
PS: Must check the individual candidates' positions on archaic units...
Re: Cycling and heat exhaustion
Posted: 18 Jul 2022, 9:06am
by Cugel
Meanwhile, here is a frightening prediction for all of us to contemplate, even the climate-septics, living-my-one-lifers and others dismissive of what we're all wreaking for perhaps even the short, proximate futures of we olepharts.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... me-weather
Heat exhaustion!? That's nothing!! When I were a Boomer we had to live on our own fried feet, cooked by the pavement as we hopped from the fridge to shoe shop only to find it was closed. We had to do this every day as our shoes were the only things left to eat! Sometimes we returned to find the fridge had become another oven, as the lecky had gone off again!!
Cugel, feeling even more doomed than usual.
Re: Cycling and heat exhaustion
Posted: 18 Jul 2022, 3:48pm
by Tiggertoo
Cugel wrote: ↑18 Jul 2022, 8:12am
Tiggertoo wrote: ↑16 Jul 2022, 6:56pm
My typical Sunday hike is around 15 miles and I can get through 2-3 24 oz bottles in that time in 90+ heat. When it is a lot cooler I need a lot less water.
Well .... I was brought up with the imperial system, including that Farenheit. However, I notice that the less commonly used imperial measurements have now faded from my wetware as the metric has slowly been installed.
Inches, feet and yards - no problem, even though millimetres, centimetres and metres are now the lengths I mentally visualise when doing woodwork or any other activity involving lengths. But ounces for liquid measurement? A mystery. And the only Farenheit temperatures I seem able to grok are 0 & 72. Even the in-between values are no longer useful to me in deciding how to dress for a bike ride.
Only that revolutionary colony over the Atlantic, with one or two other ossified backwaters, seem to retain the imperial measurements. Perhaps they have a secret hanker for a monarchy tending to the absolute sort - that tea-abuse was all a mistake? Great King Trumpet perhaps? He would surely favour rods and chains, of both kinds.
Cugel, supping litres as a forecast 33 degrees (not-F) degrees impends.
It is really because America didn't fall over backwards to suck up to the Europeans as did Britain in abandoning the Imperial system of measurements.
Re: Cycling and heat exhaustion
Posted: 18 Jul 2022, 4:07pm
by Jdsk
Tiggertoo wrote: ↑18 Jul 2022, 3:48pm
Cugel wrote: ↑18 Jul 2022, 8:12am
Tiggertoo wrote: ↑16 Jul 2022, 6:56pm
My typical Sunday hike is around 15 miles and I can get through 2-3 24 oz bottles in that time in 90+ heat. When it is a lot cooler I need a lot less water.
Well .... I was brought up with the imperial system, including that Farenheit. However, I notice that the less commonly used imperial measurements have now faded from my wetware as the metric has slowly been installed.
Inches, feet and yards - no problem, even though millimetres, centimetres and metres are now the lengths I mentally visualise when doing woodwork or any other activity involving lengths. But ounces for liquid measurement? A mystery. And the only Farenheit temperatures I seem able to grok are 0 & 72. Even the in-between values are no longer useful to me in deciding how to dress for a bike ride.
Only that revolutionary colony over the Atlantic, with one or two other ossified backwaters, seem to retain the imperial measurements. Perhaps they have a secret hanker for a monarchy tending to the absolute sort - that tea-abuse was all a mistake? Great King Trumpet perhaps? He would surely favour rods and chains, of both kinds.
Cugel, supping litres as a forecast 33 degrees (not-F) degrees impends.
It is really because America didn't fall over backwards to suck up to the Europeans as did Britain in abandoning the Imperial system of measurements.
Continued here:
viewtopic.php?p=1709328#p1709328
Jonathan
Re: Cycling and heat exhaustion
Posted: 25 Jul 2022, 8:48pm
by briansnail
I am reading a cycling magazine.Dehydration causes the blood to thicken.A 3% reduction in body fluid causes a 10% reduction in cycling efficiency.