The Potentially Serious Consequences of Mountain Biking in the Heat
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2016
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, I talk about an extremely hot mountain biking ride from a few years ago that could have ended in disaster, if not for a trailside call to 911 and a rescue from the local volunteer fire department. Aaron also talks about his own heat-related emergency during this year’s Off Road Assault on Mount Mitchell mountain bike race.
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| 0:20.2 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Single Tracks podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | Today we're mixing things up a little bit. |
| 0:25.2 | This is Aaron. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm hosting today, and we're going to be talking to Jeff, who usually hosts this show. |
| 0:31.1 | And it's really hot out there. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm sure you guys know, it's summer. |
| 0:34.6 | So on the topic of heat, we wanted to hear from jeff his story of heat exhaustion |
| 0:40.8 | in arkansas i believe so that's right why don't you set the scene for us jeff gladly so it was back in |
| 0:49.5 | 2012 that this happened and i wrote an article about it on the website a few years ago, but |
| 0:55.0 | thought it would be cool to tell the story and give a little bit more detail. So really, it all |
| 0:59.2 | kind of started at the beginning at 2012. I was training for the Cahatta 100, which is a 100-mile |
| 1:05.6 | mountain bike race that happens in Tennessee each year, like in April. So I was, I was training all through the |
| 1:12.4 | winter, you know, building up my mileage and yeah, I rode the race in April and I finished it. |
| 1:19.0 | And, you know, I had this like huge confidence boost after that just like, man, you know, |
| 1:23.5 | I'm in great shape, best shape of my life. You know, I finished the race. And after that, |
| 1:29.8 | I kind of stopped training. I wasn't, obviously wasn't training for the race anymore. I got back |
| 1:34.9 | into my usual routine. And so maybe I may have lost some of that fitness, I guess, but I definitely |
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