a) Pouch or old sock
b) Make cord to fit around your neck connected to pouch or old sock
c) Freeze two small bottles of water or one larger bottle of water. d) Put the ice bottles in the pouch or old sock
e) Put the sock or pouch around your neck, resting on your chest.
f) The ice in the pouch or sock will cool your chest for at least two hours.
g) punch a small hole in the bottom of the ice bottle. That allows the melted water to drip out, resulting in evaporative cooling on your core.
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If you are riding a standard, upright, diamond frame bike put the bottles in the back pockets of your jersey.
2) Freeze you water and nutrient bottles so that they melt, retaining the cold as you drink them
3) Wear a sun shade under your helmet to keep the sun from burning / heating your head, ears and back of the neck
4) Wear white sun sleeves to cool your arms and reflect the sun away from exposed skin
5) Wear white leg coolers to cool your legs and reflect the sun away from exposed skin
6) Don’t hammer on hills or flats.
7) Consider buying goggles instead of the shield that goes with most helmets.
8) Don’t use gel gloves. Get simple white fingerless gloves (Coolibar, Outdoor Research)
9) If you have a crew they should replace the frozen water bottles in the ice `necklace’ on the fly,
10) If you are riding solo never go more than 15 – 20 miles from your vehicle (with frozen water bottles in an ice cooler).
11) Carry a Mylar blanket in the event you have a mechanical issue that requires you to be exposed to the sun while you hitch-hike back to your vehicle.
12) Stop every
two hours to lay down in the shade or your vehicle for ten or fifteen
minutes.
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