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Re: North America Summer Living [Thom] [ In reply to ]
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FIP’s go home!

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Re: North America Summer Living [M----n] [ In reply to ]
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M----n wrote:
The Bay of Fundy is cold, but New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI have beaches with water warm enough to go Speedo for a workout. Can't speak to Newfoundland.

I've lived in Atlantic Canada all my life. Nova Scotia is beautiful, and a great place to train from mid-June to October. Not a lot of traffic, beautiful scenery, rolling hills, etc. Same for New Brunswick.

Newfoundland, beautiful place, awesome people, but the weather sucks. I grew up there, and I'd never go back on account of the weather. Great place to visit, if you can time it with the 2-3 weeks of summer they get.

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Re: North America Summer Living [novaboy] [ In reply to ]
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Another vote for almost anywhere in NH, VT or ME. I live in the lakes region of NH, and summers are perfect. Hottest days you will see are high 80s sometimes (like 5 times a year) hitting 90. Typical days are mid high 70s. Nights are 50s.

You can ride bikes on flats or climbs all the way to Canada without hitting a red light, I swim in a mountain lake that has water clarity to 35 feet, and you have awesome other choices such as hiking and MTBing. The drivers are really good with bikes. To me it is perfect. There are numerous tri club activities and group rides. We even have a local weekly TT series that alternates between a flat and a hillclimb.

The only negatives like there are everywhere is some roads can be pretty rough, and there are some bug periods that effect different activities.
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Re: North America Summer Living [endosch2] [ In reply to ]
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To echo all the other NH/VT votes. I live in the Upper Valley right on the border of the two states. White and Green Mountains are both great. Plenty of trail running if u prefer trails. Awesome climbs with few cars and most people aren’t accepting of bikes. And the lakes are gorgeous. As another poster said visibility is often to the bottom of then lake in 20-30 ft waters. Temps are very moderate too
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Re: North America Summer Living [Rumpled] [ In reply to ]
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Re: North America Summer Living [TheStroBro] [ In reply to ]
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If you were to spend 3-4 months living anywhere in North America each year for the Summer with a view to having a great training and outdoors environment, where would you choose and why?

What are you training for? I love Phoenix, it's hell on earth in the summer. However, if it's specifically for Kona...it's super hot and brutally humid. Perfect combo.

If you think Phoenix is humid, you’ve obviously never trained in Florida.
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Re: North America Summer Living [Skyline Chili] [ In reply to ]
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Skyline Chili wrote:
TheStroBro wrote:
hodgey wrote:
If you were to spend 3-4 months living anywhere in North America each year for the Summer with a view to having a great training and outdoors environment, where would you choose and why?


What are you training for? I love Phoenix, it's hell on earth in the summer. However, if it's specifically for Kona...it's super hot and brutally humid. Perfect combo.


If you think Phoenix is humid, you’ve obviously never trained in Florida.

Georgia was the next best thing...

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Re: North America Summer Living [Skyline Chili] [ In reply to ]
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Skyline Chili wrote:
TheStroBro wrote:
hodgey wrote:
If you were to spend 3-4 months living anywhere in North America each year for the Summer with a view to having a great training and outdoors environment, where would you choose and why?


What are you training for? I love Phoenix, it's hell on earth in the summer. However, if it's specifically for Kona...it's super hot and brutally humid. Perfect combo.


If you think Phoenix is humid, you’ve obviously never trained in Florida.

Actually. at 115-120 degrees and 50 or 60% humidity there is actually more moisture in the air than in Florida.

Also, if you think Florida is humid, you've obviously never trained in Louisiana in the summer.
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Re: North America Summer Living [jkhayc] [ In reply to ]
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jkhayc wrote:
Skyline Chili wrote:
TheStroBro wrote:
hodgey wrote:
If you were to spend 3-4 months living anywhere in North America each year for the Summer with a view to having a great training and outdoors environment, where would you choose and why?


What are you training for? I love Phoenix, it's hell on earth in the summer. However, if it's specifically for Kona...it's super hot and brutally humid. Perfect combo.


If you think Phoenix is humid, you’ve obviously never trained in Florida.

Actually. at 115-120 degrees and 50 or 60% humidity there is actually more moisture in the air than in Florida.

Also, if you think Florida is humid, you've obviously never trained in Louisiana in the summer.
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Re: North America Summer Living [Skyline Chili] [ In reply to ]
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Skyline Chili wrote:
jkhayc wrote:
Skyline Chili wrote:
TheStroBro wrote:
hodgey wrote:
If you were to spend 3-4 months living anywhere in North America each year for the Summer with a view to having a great training and outdoors environment, where would you choose and why?


What are you training for? I love Phoenix, it's hell on earth in the summer. However, if it's specifically for Kona...it's super hot and brutally humid. Perfect combo.


If you think Phoenix is humid, you’ve obviously never trained in Florida.

Actually. at 115-120 degrees and 50 or 60% humidity there is actually more moisture in the air than in Florida.

Also, if you think Florida is humid, you've obviously never trained in Louisiana in the summer.

Avg humidity in Phoenix year round is 37. It’s 76 in Miami.

And FL is the most humid state since it surrounded by the warm Gulf water and the Atlantic.
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Re: North America Summer Living [hodgey] [ In reply to ]
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Another vote for Pacifc Coast... outer suburbs of Vancouver, Victoria, Nanaimo...

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Re: North America Summer Living [hodgey] [ In reply to ]
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Going to throw what might seem like a strange one out there - Alaska. It's light all day. You have forever to train. I get done with work at 5 and can still get a 7-hour ride in if I feel like it. Tons of trails, not too many people. Lots of great races, some of which are pretty unique.
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Re: North America Summer Living [Skyline Chili] [ In reply to ]
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Skyline Chili wrote:

Avg humidity in Phoenix year round is 37. It’s 76 in Miami.

And FL is the most humid state since it surrounded by the warm Gulf water and the Atlantic.

This is about the Summer, who cares about the average.

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Re: North America Summer Living [Skyline Chili] [ In reply to ]
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not that this is a contest in any way, but i grew up (and it's still my family's home) in the most humid city in the US. makes miami look like a joke.

the humidity in the summer in southern az during the monsoon season is for real. people who mock it or don't believe it get destroyed by it.
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Re: North America Summer Living [hodgey] [ In reply to ]
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South Lake Tahoe.
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Re: North America Summer Living [hodgey] [ In reply to ]
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I live in Phoenix most of the year and 2-3 months in Nova Scotia on St Margaret's Bay. I have done this for many years. NS in the summer is very nice. I mostly do water sports and not triathlon training when I am there. Not a particularly good place for road cycling (narrow roads, no shoulder) but excellent gravel and mountain biking.

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Re: North America Summer Living [hodgey] [ In reply to ]
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I have to vote Banff/Lake louise...very close second would be the North Van/Squamish corridor

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Re: North America Summer Living [SVxHR=CO] [ In reply to ]
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SVxHR=CO wrote:
To echo all the other NH/VT votes. I live in the Upper Valley right on the border of the two states. White and Green Mountains are both great. Plenty of trail running if u prefer trails. Awesome climbs with few cars and most people aren’t accepting of bikes. And the lakes are gorgeous. As another poster said visibility is often to the bottom of then lake in 20-30 ft waters. Temps are very moderate too

My mom lives right by there. Agreed - tons of trail running, and also tons of runs on "roads" which can range from paved to gravel to "reallly? people drive cars on this." I imagine that it's great mountain biking too. There seem to be a places where you can do some form of open water swimming. And the cycling - as long as you don't need things to be flat - the cycling is amazing.

You just need to not really need to see people that often.
Also, for some of the trails to run on (or mtb), probably best to be sure to have someone with you. It gets pretty remote out there.
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