... and if you are an endurance athlete in New England this year the woman who appears most scorned is Mother Nature. And who wants to be on her bad side? After a winter of record setting snow fall, where much of my strength training came from shovelling snow, we thought perhaps we had earned some respite from her scorn. However, April and may had more rainy days than not. Not warm rainy days that make you want to dance in the street to get cool, but those dreary days hovering in the low 50s with maybe some slight low 60s, but those were rare.
Than about two weeks ago we literally went from low 60s and raining to 2 days later having upper 80s with Georgia like humidity. Wholly crap, what happened to spring? Things settled down to a little more normal intmeritten rain and low 80s for about a week. So Mike doug and I planned a 5 hour ride on Thursday. Turns out it was going to be 98 and humid. We were doing the housatonic course which is relentless, up and down and a pain even on cool days. The first lap was not too bad as we left at 930. We got to our cars and each decided we only went through one bottle of water so would be fine with one bottle for lap # 2... big mistake. ABout half way though the temp had shot up and we all sucked down the bottle... luckily the garden store in Roxbury had potable water and we soaked out heads and filled out bottles. MIke left us and Doug and I continued for anohter 90 min but half way though jumped in the wonderful cool river ... I was barely pushing 130 watts back to the car and suffering..
Flash forwad 2 days... Early morning ride so i could have a nice family day. plan for 4 hours on TT bike, IM pace. 10 min into the ride, 60 degrees and it starts to pour... I had my rain slicker and was not able to take it off the entire wet, miserable ride.
Please, I know the weather gods are pissed, but a couple weeks of 75-82 degrees with low humidity is in order.. hey bikes are good for the carbon footprint right?
Ryan
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