"While alcohol may make us feel hotter, it actually aids in decreasing core body temperature. Normally when we feel cold, it is because blood has flowed from our skin into the organs to keep our core body temperature warm. After alcohol consumption, though, blood flows into the skin, giving us that warm feeling and making our faces flush, but leaving our body temperature to decrease rapidly."
To combat this, a few of my roadie friends used to put the bottles upside-down in the cages on sub-freezing rides.I have more of an issue with the nipple freezing.
To combat this, a few of my roadie friends used to put the bottles upside-down in the cages on sub-freezing rides.
It doesn't work quite so well if you have leaky bottles.
The nature of winter riding tends to be lower intensity, so the factoid that you dehydrate faster in the winter is an incomplete truth. You go slower, work less intensely, and thus sweat less. If needed, I can go 3 hours on 1 bottle in the winter and be fine. In the summer I'd be hallucinating if I tried to do that.
Hydration: make sure you pack yourself with at least two bottles of water. Since we dehydrate more during winter than summer, you need them.
Why is that the body dehydrates more in the winter vs. the summer?
I heard from some place that the lower humidity in the summer (drier) make sweat evaporate more quickly hence, you body needs to sweat more to keep your body cool.
Who knows, I know I don't drink nearly as much now as when it is 90*.
but we do not need to be packed for the dessert.
Why is that the body dehydrates more in the winter vs. the summer?
Humidity is higher in summer, and lower in winter. That's why people run the dehumidifier in summer and the humidifier in the winter.
All I know is that I drink 3x's more water in the Summer then I do in the winter. Oddly enough, I drink 2x's more beer in cold winter nights than the Summer??? :hmmm: