Well, I just showed yesterday, 100 degrees and just awful. I was tempted to scratch… We survived - very short warm up (5 minutes for our 2nd test). I wore a lightweight vest to break up the Pillsbury Doughboy look!
[QUOTE=MysticOakRanch;8215908]
Well, I just showed yesterday, 100 degrees and just awful. I was tempted to scratch… We survived - very short warm up (5 minutes for our 2nd test). I wore a lightweight vest to break up the Pillsbury Doughboy look![/QUOTE]
Yikes. It’s enough to make a person take up ice skating.
Never in all my life was I so glad to have jackets waived as today when all my buttons fell off my jacket within seconds of each other. Dough boy I was. But whatever. 
Years ago (yep, counted in eons) you could wear sleeveless shirts. I’ve never understood why they require sleeves. It seems stupid to me. Sleeveless is much cooler when it’s hot and jackets are waived. A nice rat catcher with no sleeves. Yep, that’s what I like and don’t see as looking awful or incomplete. Not sure who got the bug up their butt to have that rule changed all those years ago.
[QUOTE=Velvet;8217142]
Years ago (yep, counted in eons) you could wear sleeveless shirts. I’ve never understood why they require sleeves. It seems stupid to me. Sleeveless is much cooler when it’s hot and jackets are waived. A nice rat catcher with no sleeves. Yep, that’s what I like and don’t see as looking awful or incomplete. Not sure who got the bug up their butt to have that rule changed all those years ago.[/QUOTE]
I was riding in the early 90s and the rule had been on the books for a long time back then. I think there was a change in interpretation - “long or short sleeved shirt” meant NO sleeveless.
temp difference
[QUOTE=Shagyas Rock;8213831]
If it’s so warm that jackets are waived, I cannot imagine wanting to wear a blackor even a navy shirt. Dark colors absorb heat - soaks it in like a sponge actually. . . light colors keep you cooler.
I actually researched this a few years ago when ordering uniforms for a girls fast pitch softball team. If I recall correctly, there is less than a half degree difference in temp in white vs black or dark colors. .[/QUOTE
