{"id":24721,"date":"2014-06-17T15:29:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T20:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=24721"},"modified":"2016-11-30T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T15:02:07","slug":"the-wind-vs-my-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/17\/the-wind-vs-my-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wind vs. My Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Riding to Huffman today my legs were not willing or able to counter the stiff wind. I left home at 11:21 and the wind was from the south at 17 mph with 23 mph gusts. The temperature was 88, 48% humidity under mostly cloudy skies. No rain today although there were a couple of stray rain clouds showing up on radar. Before leaving I walked out to the garage and thought to myself the humidity and temperature were already up there but when I check my home weather station I was surprised it was only 88. By the time the ride ended at 2:16 it was 94 and 39% humidity. The wind dropped down some to 9 mph from the SSW with 17 mph gusts.<\/p>\n

Before biking today I watched the\u00c2\u00a0Tour de Suisse on BeInSport live. The country scenery\u00c2\u00a0 is beautiful and HD TV shows it in detail.<\/p>\n

I varied the usual route to Huffman some at the beginning and the end. The route totaled 31.3 miles<\/strong>. The 14.6 mph average speed reflects the difficulty I had riding with the wind conditions. There was only one 5 mile segment that I averaged over 16 mph. The rest were 15 mph or less. I am wondering if I might be over training.<\/p>\n

While I was stopped at the Huffman Chevron lo and behold the Amtrak train came by. (Click on the image to enlarge it)<\/p>\n

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Mileage standings:<\/p>\n