Burn you like the mid day sun.............

IT IS SO FRICKIN' HOT OUT THERE YOU GOTTA PISS EXCELLENCE AND BE ENDOWED WITH BALLS OF IRON TO RACE TONIGHT IN THIS HEAT............................

  

if Farrah says its hot, then it's hot.  

In this kind of heatwave you have to really think about your race preparation carefully.  You don't want to head out with insufficient water.  For god's sake look what happened to Evan Tanner.  Poor guy.  But aside from the obvious, you want to wear your coolest socks (mine are Assos Skin Web), and if can get away with it and break up your team kit you wear a lighter set of bib shorts (again, Assos).   If it's crazy hot I like to wear different, lighter shoes.

Last week I saw 2 guys crash at the same time, on the same corner.  Both had tires blow off.  I can't see that glass would have done that to 2 different guys.  I bet it was over-inflated tires in concert with the intense heat outside, and the heat of the brakes on that corner.  So I am keeping my tires at 110psi tonight so I don't eat pavement.

I like to throw my 2 race water bottles in the freezer for a while before I head out. I don't want them frozen, but a little slushy or frosty is good.  It really sucks when you are in the final third of the race and your water is hot.

I normally don't like wearing gloves.....but I know I'll be sweating like an Arch Bishop at Sunday school class if I don't......... and if I get to wet I can't hold onto my bars.

There's also a lot of accouterments that you also need to sort through prior to leaving to race.  I like to use chapstick so when I start getting dehydrated I can't really taste and feel the salts forming on my lips. I need to apply my skin conditioner/chamois cream at the last moment.  The last thing I want is to get more saddle sores.  Those little non-STD related bastards have ruined more than 1 race for me.

I like to also make sure I have the proper liquid chilled to perfection waiting for me as soon as I get home.  I don't think I've ever raced, or ridden for that matter, and not finished with a cold bier.

My only weakness