Headwind Enemy, Tailwind Friend, Sidewind Frienemy. If you’ve got a tailwind you’re golden, its like you’ve got a pair of big old angel wings strapped to your back and you’re soaring. Effortless. 20 maybe 25 miles an hour easy. If you’ve got a headwind on the other hand…it’s as if the hand of God itself has come down and is pushing you backward. 8 miles an hour, slugging along. A headwind can easily chop your MPH in half. And it’s an exhausting fight. A sidewind can be ok, though its no walk it the park either, unless the road is curvy then you might get some reprieve. Yesterday there was a front coming in and the wind was coming in sideways, hard, blowing in big gusts and I almost got knocked off the road a couple of times. Really gives a new meaning to Going Wherever The Wind Blows, and I find that Bob Seger song “Against the Wind” looping looping looping in my mind on bad-wind-days as we pedal along.
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