On 2017-07-29 12:11, wrote:
On Friday, July 28, 2017 at 6:14:54 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 7/28/2017 8:00 PM, Joerg wrote:


The was no drinking water source the whole 20mi and it was up and
down all the time.

Gosh!

Last Thursday I rode 25 miles in very high humidity and the sweat was
pouring off of me. I was wearing a cycling cap under the helmet and
the water came off it in a steady stream. I didn't take a sip of
water for the whole time (1 hour 20 minutes) and had a small cup of
coffee before starting back. By that time the humidity had gone down
and the wind had picked up so I did another 40 miles without a drink.
I did have three beers at the end of the ride. For all of the talk
about alcohol dehydrating you I don't find that to be true.


I'll second that on the beers. As long as it's the good stuff from small
breweries. What it does to some riders though is making them tired. That
is why I can hardly convince anyone to stop at a pub, mainly because out
here it's all uphill from those places. In Belgium that was very
different. The whole riding group would loudly cheer at the first
suggestion and then immediately find a pub.

Some riders had a demi-bouteille (smaller bottle than the usual 0.7
liter) of red wine in one of their bottle holders and then let that
circle. Yep, drinking it from the bottle. In France they'd probably have
a hissy fit about that and I guess in America a cop who'd see that would
arrest the whole peloton.

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Regards, Joerg

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