Re: RC: LD"s (the weather thing)

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In a message dated 11/16/99 11:47:53 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
guest@endurance.net writes:

<< Not sure where you were in Dubai, but where I was the humidity
 was never under 50% and most time much much higher!
 I live in the S.Cal high desert and we never even get humidity
 as low as 2%!  That is pretty darn dry! >>

Wendy, I was on one of those faceless road crews out there on the course, 
crewing for you and the rest of the squad.  Once you left the coastal area 
(where the humidity WAS 50% or better) and got out into the desert, the 
humidity was very low.  I got the 2% figure from various officials at the vet 
check.  I'd say that it would have to have been in single digits--I've spent 
some time down in your neck of the woods (29 Palms) in the summer when it was 
120 with single digit humidity, and the sweat dries right on you so that 
you're hardly ever wet.  You may bake, but you don't boil.  That's how I felt 
in Dubai on race day, out in the sun running after horses with bullets of 
water, lugging stuff in and out of the rigs, etc.  I was damp and clammy back 
in town--positively sweltered.  But not at all out on the racecourse.  And I 
sweat like the proverbial pig, so I tend to notice...  Sorry if I didn't 
specify that I was referring to out on course.  :-)

Heidi


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