Hear Ye Hear Ye 🎧
“Hear ye, hear ye,” said my legs this morning. “We don’t feel fit. We don’t want to ride any 35-40 miles.”
Sometimes it’s better to listen when your body starts talking like that. The trick is knowing when you’re simply not quite in the mood for a ride; and when you really need to back off. There are days when my legs start to feel a lot better after riding easily for 10 minutes; and there are days when those muscles simply won’t “snap out of it”.
Today it was the latter. Not only were my legs tired and heavy; the wind was really hard to deal with. It felt like I could hardly make any headway. So when those legs kept crying, “Hear ye, hear ye,” I finally decided to cut the ride short.
Heat Index 🥵
Our heat index is taking off, which doesn’t help. There was a heat advisory posted from noon today, lasting until tomorrow evening. At 7:00 am this morning, it was already nearly 80 degrees! I did my first experiment in using my lightweight helmet liner as a cooling beanie.
I learned that it doesn’t work well. As long as the liner stayed wet, it did make my head cooler. After about half an hour, the liner was too dry; and my head was getting hot. I’d need to re-wet that liner about every 30 minutes; and that’s rather impractical. When the heat index rises over 100, I need to drink my water! So I have to find other ways to keep cool.
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ABOUT ME
I began this website primarily as a way to present the story of how I accomplished a century ride on an adult tricycle. Other riders of adult trikes might want to know whether it’s possible. It sure is! You can read all about it in My Story.
I live in New Orleans; and retired in January 2023. More time for cycling!
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