How hot has your pain cave been?

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I did a 3.5 hour workout in my pain cave. Was getting dizzy and taking in mega fluids/nutrition. The dog started walking around panting…so I knew it was warm. I grabbed my garmin off the bike and turned it on……86F, by the feel of it…the humidity was somewhere between a costa rican rain forest and the amazon.

I figured it was good training for heat acclimation….but it was painful (still cool where I live). I did not heat up the room….it just happened….but it got me thinking. Anyone every heat up their pain cave for heat acclimation? I saw one guy who put a treadmill in a wooden box with heat lamps…I think he was training for badwater.

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Last summer training for Ironman Louisville I was riding in the basement and it was 82 degrees down there. I think some of those rides cooked me a little but I also believe it prepared me for Louisville cause it was over 90 and super humid there. IMO, it helped me.

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I did a 3.5 hour workout in my pain cave. Was getting dizzy and taking in mega fluids/nutrition. The dog started walking around panting…so I knew it was warm. I grabbed my garmin off the bike and turned it on……86F, by the feel of it…the humidity was somewhere between a costa rican rain forest and the amazon.

I figured it was good training for heat acclimation….but it was painful (still cool where I live). I did not heat up the room….it just happened….but it got me thinking. Anyone every heat up their pain cave for heat acclimation? I saw one guy who put a treadmill in a wooden box with heat lamps…I think he was training for badwater.

If you want to do some real heat acclamation training, come down here to Florida anytime between April and October when it’s 90° with 95% humidity. That will get you race ready for anything.

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I did a 3.5 hour workout in my pain cave. Was getting dizzy and taking in mega fluids/nutrition. The dog started walking around panting…so I knew it was warm. I grabbed my garmin off the bike and turned it on……86F, by the feel of it…the humidity was somewhere between a costa rican rain forest and the amazon.

I figured it was good training for heat acclimation….but it was painful (still cool where I live). I did not heat up the room….it just happened….but it got me thinking. Anyone every heat up their pain cave for heat acclimation? I saw one guy who put a treadmill in a wooden box with heat lamps…I think he was training for badwater.

If you want to do some real heat acclamation training, come down here to Florida anytime between April and October when it’s 90° with 95% humidity. That will get you race ready for anything.

That’s my concern….I am signed up for Haines City 70.3 in April.

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I did a 3.5 hour workout in my pain cave. Was getting dizzy and taking in mega fluids/nutrition. The dog started walking around panting…so I knew it was warm. I grabbed my garmin off the bike and turned it on……86F, by the feel of it…the humidity was somewhere between a costa rican rain forest and the amazon.

I figured it was good training for heat acclimation….but it was painful (still cool where I live). I did not heat up the room….it just happened….but it got me thinking. Anyone every heat up their pain cave for heat acclimation? I saw one guy who put a treadmill in a wooden box with heat lamps…I think he was training for badwater.

If you want to do some real heat acclamation training, come down here to Florida anytime between April and October when it’s 90° with 95% humidity. That will get you race ready for anything.

That’s my concern….I am signed up for Haines City 70.3 in April.

I’m racing there this year as well and it will certainly be cooler this year in April as opposed to years past in May. Stay at it. The hotter the better. A bit tough down here if you’re not use to it. IMO heat and humidity are far worse than races at elevation.

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I normally start near 67°F and when I’m done it’s 70° or 71°. Humidity goes from ~15% to 45%.

jaretj

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My pain cave is in the spare bedroom where I have the heat zone shut off completely. It’s usually 50 degrees. When I start off with 2 fans in the front and 1 smaller one in the back I’m pretty cold, but 5 minutes in I digg it. I’m preparing myself for the Maine spring season. My second outdoor ride this season was on Saturday. It was 43*… I was pleasantly surprised how warm I was :slight_smile:

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http://s29.postimg.org/uht8cuqtj/IMG_0950.jpg
Thermal stress FTW.

Edit: for those who can’t make it out - that’s 44 degree Celsius.

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My basement pain cave room (10 feet by 14 feet) is insulated all around. I use an old electric heater that looks like an old steam radiator and keep the setting fairly low so the temperature is around 59F at start. My one hour workouts usually result an increase of temperature of 8-10F during the colder winter months. Longer rides up to my 2 hour limit usually adds another 2-4 degrees F.

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On certain ‘warmer’ days with the heat turned up in my garage cave, it gets all the way up to maybe 55º.

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Houston area, in the garage. Easily in triple digits during the summer. I try not to look at the temp in there from right May to September. Luckily the humidity isn’t very bad.

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The humidity isn’t bad in Houston O_o

Every time I’ve been to Houston I’ve felt like the humidity was very comparable to Florida (very humid).

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I grew up in Louisiana, so it doesn’t seem that bad most of the time. I’ll concede I may not have the most reliable sense of heat or humidity…

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I did a 3.5 hour workout in my pain cave. Was getting dizzy and taking in mega fluids/nutrition. The dog started walking around panting…so I knew it was warm. I grabbed my garmin off the bike and turned it on……86F, by the feel of it…the humidity was somewhere between a costa rican rain forest and the amazon.

I figured it was good training for heat acclimation….but it was painful (still cool where I live). I did not heat up the room….it just happened….but it got me thinking. Anyone every heat up their pain cave for heat acclimation? I saw one guy who put a treadmill in a wooden box with heat lamps…I think he was training for badwater.

If you want to do some real heat acclamation training, come down here to Florida anytime between April and October when it’s 90° with 95% humidity. That will get you race ready for anything.

What do you have a sauna he can train in. Not to be a nerd, but even in the equatorial tropics, 90F/95% doesn’t exist naturally on the planet. That’s an 88F dewpoint. Not going to happen. You heat and humidity is pretty similar to where I an in the Midwest in mid summer. Actually it gets a lot hotter here (S. Iowa, Missouri) in July and August, but just a shade lower peak humidity. At 90F, you’ll rarely ever see RH over 60%. That’s damn humid. In the morning it will be 95%, because it’s only 80F.

Right now in Orlando, it’s a very pedestrian 80F 32% projected for the high. That’s a dewpoint of just 50F. That’s an average spring day around here in late April, early May. In late June, we’ll pull up even then roll on past in July and August as it hits the upper 90’s and even breaks triple digits here and there… or a whole lot like the last 2 years.

Just a short little lesson in Stoichiometry.

Florida isn’t; hot, it’s just humid, tropical (mild peak summer temps and rainy) and doesn’t have a 4th season… something we call winter here. Now Texas… ya… some parts are damn hot AND and humid.

My basement is a nice comfy 62-66 (will rise 3-4F during a long trainer session. I have 3 fans blowing and below NP of about 200W, I’ll keep a shirt on and the largest fan on speed 2. NP over 220, short comes off. Above NP of 240, the fan goes to speed 3. I actually am seeing heart rates 5-8bpm lower indoors than outdoors right now since I’ve been riding about 80-90% indoors.

I don’t think my basement can get to 86F. I’ll probably use less fans for heat acclimatization when I end up on the trainer this summer due to weather.

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Mine isn’t too hot lately. I just open up the door and let ambient cool air do the job, but due to some schedule changes I may be using the trainer more this Summer than usual and I’m concerned about heat because it cuts into one’s ability to hit target numbers and it generally just sucks to feel over heated. I presently use two Lasko tower fans. I’ve kicked around the idea of using some gel things that you put in the freezer to drape over my shoulders. Any summertime trainer experts out there with some ideas?