Our team, together and individually, has been hitting the hot pavement of Midwestern roads and byways this summer especially hard. Why? Because mid-summer in North America is similar to mid-winter in India. Sunny. Hot. Humid. Temperatures in Kolkata, Mumbai, and Hyderabad were in the upper 80-degrees Fahrenheit when Joe James and John Hay, Jr. were there the last few weeks of January 2006. And that was unseasonably cool, we were told. So, we're riding as much as we can, day after day, while the weather's hot in order to simulate what will be a daily experience throughout the month of January and the first week of February 2007.Heat/weather issues we're preparing for/anticipating:
(1) adequate and consistent hydration
(2) access to lots of purified bottled water
(3) preventing heat exhaustion
(4) adequate salt/sodium levels
(5) UV protection from cloudless skies day after day
In the photo above, Bob Yardy leads Joe James and a group of riders across the Upper Penninsula of Michigan during a week-long ride in July.
