I ride exclusively indoors at the moment and my upstairs room in the summer of Southern California can get very hot (and also fairly cold in the winter - for me anyways).
Ambient temperature is such an important factor in riding, is there a way for me to automatically track that with a particular product or something??
Sweet thank you both! I’ll do some looking around to see if there are any products under $500 that can record temperature - with Zwift I cant really justify the need to buy a head unit to my wife
Garmin have a Tempe (temperature sensor) which sends ambient temperatures to many devices. Doesn’t help if you don’t have a compatible device. I’ve seen runners use it, but not cyclists…
@Skyler I have used the tempe, it will do what you are after and is a cheap price. I bought one for running as watches don’t show accurate temperature.
Yeah ambient temperature is ultimately just a stand-in for core temperature. It is the core body temp that drives performance- not ambient temperature.
Just that core temperature is another gadget to put on my body whereas ambient temperature would just always be present without strapping something on - that’s the thought
For this the tempe will be good. I use mine mainly for skiing - it is a bit sensitive in terms of where you place it, if you don’t want it to pick up your body heat - I have mine on the back of a backpack. Every time I start an activity on my watch in the same room, it connects to the tempe, just from it hanging there on the backpack.
I was also interested in this, especially in combination with core temperature measurements to experiment with heat training.
I’ve been using a Garmin Tempe that’s on my road bike that’s stored in the same room as my indoor trainer.
That way I’ve accurate environmental temperature measurements both indoor and outdoor. Found a good second hand deal for 15 euros. Well worth the investment to me.