The "Holy %$%# It's Hot Out There" Summer 2017 Thread

[Gusington]

I always thought surfing was a great workout like swimming. No?

[Toonces]

It can be, it just depends.  On a day like today where the waves are small, the ocean is glassy, and there's not much current, you're not doing all that much work in between waves.  It's a short paddle to the lineup, and then you're mostly just sitting waiting for waves to come.  A brief flurry of paddling, ride the wave, and then a short paddle back out.  It's not a very vigorous workout.

On the other hand, during a big swell like with the hurricanes, or some of those outside reef breaks in Hawaii, it can be absolutely exhausting.  Everything is hard.  Getting out to the waves can be just brutal, a test of paddling, timing, ducking under waves, furious paddling to get outside before another set comes in...then you get caught too far in on a set, and have to duck under multiple waves, getting pushed underwater and all over the place, and then when the set lets up, desperately trying to get back out before the next set.

You get a good wave and cover some serious ground, and then you've got to cover that ground back to where you started by paddling.

The whole experience can really take its toll.  I've had 3 or 4 hour sessions in good, big surf, and when I get home I am absolutely worthless the rest of the day I'm so tired.  So it just depends.  That break I used to surf on the south shore in Hawaii was a mile and a half just to get to the waves.  That's 3 miles of paddling before you even catch a wave.  That was most definitely a workout.

[Gusington]

Keep on keepin' on, Sir.

[BanzaiCat]

 \m/

[mirth]

https://twitter.com/growingwisdom/status/919501646958415872

[Pete Dero]

The weather is a complete mess ...

Ophelia hits Ireland and is causing casualties while we, some 800 km away, are having the warmest october days since ever (15° above normal or what is normal for july).

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41627442   

A woman in her 20s has been killed as the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia hit the British Isles.
Part of a tree fell on her car in West Waterford, also injuring another passenger, as hurricane-force gusts battered the Republic of Ireland.

About 120,000 homes are without power in the Irish Republic, where the government has deployed the army.

The Met Office has warned of "potential danger to life", with wind gusts off the south coast of Ireland reaching 109mph (176km/h) at Fastnet Rock.

I can't recall Europe ever had winds like that before ...

[mirth]

https://twitter.com/Kachelmann/status/919922578214572033

[Sir Slash]

OK all you Brits. The hurricanes now know where you are......and how to get there.  :hide:   Stay safe and ride this Mother out. It's not worth the risk to take some pictures of wind blowing down trees.

[mirth]

[mirth]

https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/920426556228538369

[Staggerwing]

One of those purple spots is asking directions to Toonces' house.

[Toonces]

About time to start the holy crap it's cold out there 2018 thread.    ::)

[Sir Slash]

Yeah, they're a lot more fun than the holy crap it's hot out there posts.

[GDS_Starfury]

its my season to pick on all of you frozen fuckers.

[Arctic Blast]

I was still wearing shorts yesterday in mid-October. Not bad so far.  ;D