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Archaea · 03-30-2008, 04:07 PM

battling head winds for fifteen miles?

I had a stretch where I normally travel at 20 mph and dropped down to 10 mph due to winds. Brutal does not begin to describe it.

RC Vikings · 03-30-2008, 05:59 PM

I would rather ride on a 30 degree day then a super windy day. It use to kill me because I hated going slow and I wanted to blame myself and not the wind but any more I just feel like it's good training for climbing. I remember they interviewed Andy Hampsten one time and asked how he become such a good climber having grown up in North or South Dakota and he said him and his brother had plenty of opportunities to ride into the wind.

bluegoose · 03-31-2008, 03:13 PM

I hate riding into the wind, but I guess its more that my attitude about it is more like Archaea's than RCVs. I hate looking down at the computer and seeing 10 mph when it should be twice that.

I read a blog a couple of years ago about a group of guys from eastern Canada, Nova Scotia I believe, that wanted to follow the TdF one year. Seeing as how the highest hill in their entire province was no more than a couple of hundred feet, they treated their constant headwinds as their climbing workouts and were able to do the Alpe d'Huez with no problem.

MikeWaters · 03-31-2008, 04:29 PM

windsurf on the windy days. ride bike on non-windy days. this is easy math, folks.

03-30-2008, 04:07 PM	#1
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	Does anybody actually like battling head winds for fifteen miles? I had a stretch where I normally travel at 20 mph and dropped down to 10 mph due to winds. Brutal does not begin to describe it. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

03-30-2008, 05:59 PM	#2
RC Vikings Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Rexburg, Idaho Posts: 2,236	I would rather ride on a 30 degree day then a super windy day. It use to kill me because I hated going slow and I wanted to blame myself and not the wind but any more I just feel like it's good training for climbing. I remember they interviewed Andy Hampsten one time and asked how he become such a good climber having grown up in North or South Dakota and he said him and his brother had plenty of opportunities to ride into the wind. __________________ "I always rode to my limit. If I won by three minutes, that's because I couldn't make four." Eddy Merckx

03-31-2008, 03:13 PM	#3
bluegoose Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Northern California Posts: 2,919	I hate riding into the wind, but I guess its more that my attitude about it is more like Archaea's than RCVs. I hate looking down at the computer and seeing 10 mph when it should be twice that. I read a blog a couple of years ago about a group of guys from eastern Canada, Nova Scotia I believe, that wanted to follow the TdF one year. Seeing as how the highest hill in their entire province was no more than a couple of hundred feet, they treated their constant headwinds as their climbing workouts and were able to do the Alpe d'Huez with no problem.

03-31-2008, 04:29 PM	#4
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	windsurf on the windy days. ride bike on non-windy days. this is easy math, folks.