Hotter Than Hell 100s This Week In Wichita Falls

I do not recollect a time previous during my exile in Texas when the seven day forecast had the temperature over the century mark day after day after day.

Last month when I spent a couple weeks in the Arizona desert I don't think we had a week solidly over the 100 degree mark day after day after day.

The SEVEN DAY FORECAST you see above was screen capped from this morning's Wichita Falls Times News Record.

In a couple weeks bike riders from all over the world will be arriving in Wichita Falls to join thousands of other wheel rollers in the Hotter 'N Hell 100 event.

If I remember right, last year, during the Hotter 'N Hell weekend, the temperature did not get hotter than hell, staying under the 100 degree mark, with clouds and maybe some rain, again if I am remembering right.

I have never felt even a slight desire to ride in the Hotter 'N Hell event. I have enjoyed visiting the end of the race event site at the downtown Wichita Falls MPEC zone.

If the temperature is not way over 100 I may join the throngs at the MPEC again this year. Maybe...

Up Early This First Day Of September Thinking Of Biking 100 Miles While Hotter Than Hell

I am up early on the first day of September. It is a dark quarter moon Wednesday morning. We are looking out my bedroom window, at the darkness and the pool, in the picture.

The weather predictors are predicting it will be very cloudy today, with a chance of wet stuff falling on the first 3 days of September.

Yesterday morning I was quickly greeted by computer trauma. This morning, I am at least an hour into being on my computer, with very little trauma, so far. Knock on wood.

This morning I feel no sore after effect from pedaling my bike for 13.646 miles yesterday.

This morning I read Steve A's blog account of his 100 mile ride in the Wichita Falls Hotter 'n Hell bike ride. I can't imagine pedaling for 100 miles in pleasant temperatures, let alone 100 degrees or hotter.

I think I'll be in the pool as soon as the sun makes its expected arrival and stay in it an extra long time, due to yesterday's time being cut short due to my computer malfunction worries.

And then, mid-morning, it is off to points to the north. If I get on my bike today, it will be late in the afternoon. I see a trek to the Tandy Hills for some relaxing, salubrious hiking to be more likely than biking.

P.S. September is off to a start with a good omen. I clicked on the spell check and was told "No Misspellings Found." This happens about once a month. To have it happen on the first blog posting of the new month has to be a fortuitous sign of something.

Hotter N' Hell 100 In Wichita Falls

I was pleased to learn, this morning, that Gar the Texan has taken me up on my challenge that he get his scrawny self in good enough shape that he can be in Wichita Falls on Saturday, August 29 for the annual Hotter N' Hell Hundred.

Last year almost 12,000 people braved the HOT Texas August sun to ride their bikes for 100 miles in the Wichita Falls zone.

Wichita Falls is named for a little waterfall that long ago disappeared in a flood. So, so as not to confuse visitors, Wichita Falls built a fake falls that looks quite real. In a Disneyland sort of way.

Reading Gar the Texans' Blog this morning I was disheartened to read that his training program has not gotten off to a good start, with a case of the vapors popping out even before he got on his bike.

Despite my always optimistic nature, I fear boondoggle ahead as Gar the Texan continues to try and muster the energy to go outside without having a vapor attack. That boy was in much better shape before his more recent marriage. Why? I do not know.

Below is a YouTube video of me trying to catch up with Gar the Texan in Palo Duro Canyon. He was able to pedal fast back then, prior to his marital duties apparently keeping him in a state of exhaustion and the vapors.