This piggin' westerly wind.

Simon Mason

I wish the wind would change direction soon. I'm fed up of doing a full day
at work and then facing a 12 mile ride into a 50 mph headwind. Last night it
took me 90 minutes to ride home, sometimes the gusts of wind slowed me down
to walking pace. I'm also arriving at work far too early, if only it was the
other way round!

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Simon Mason
Anlaby
East Yorkshire.
53°44'N 0°26'W
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

Not Responding

Simon Mason wrote:
> I wish the wind would change direction soon. I'm fed up of doing a full day
> at work and then facing a 12 mile ride into a 50 mph headwind. Last night it
> took me 90 minutes to ride home, sometimes the gusts of wind slowed me down
> to walking pace. I'm also arriving at work far too early, if only it was the
> other way round!
>

Me too. Ride to work in relative calm and watch the prevailing westerly
build up during the day. Today was something special, though; on
occasion I sped *up* to walking pace.

Still it's only 5 miles e/w for me so I'm not suffering as much as Simon.

Just looked at my spreadsheet; so far this year I've cycled 135 miles
out of a total distance travelled by all modes of 184 miles. My aim is
to make 200 miles in the month.

MSeries

Not Responding wrote:
> Simon Mason wrote:
>
>> I wish the wind would change direction soon. I'm fed up of doing a
>> full day at work and then facing a 12 mile ride into a 50 mph
>> headwind. Last night it took me 90 minutes to ride home, sometimes the
>> gusts of wind slowed me down to walking pace. I'm also arriving at
>> work far too early, if only it was the other way round!
>>
>
> Me too. Ride to work in relative calm and watch the prevailing westerly
> build up during the day. Today was something special, though; on
> occasion I sped *up* to walking pace.
>
> Still it's only 5 miles e/w for me so I'm not suffering as much as Simon.
>
> Just looked at my spreadsheet; so far this year I've cycled 135 miles
> out of a total distance travelled by all modes of 184 miles. My aim is
> to make 200 miles in the month.

I travel pretty much due south on the way home but one hill is over two
miles long. The slower pace up the hill coupled with the gusting wind
has made it pretty darn tough for the last few days.

Ningi

Simon Mason wrote:
> I wish the wind would change direction soon. I'm fed up of doing a full day
> at work and then facing a 12 mile ride into a 50 mph headwind. Last night it
> took me 90 minutes to ride home, sometimes the gusts of wind slowed me down
> to walking pace. I'm also arriving at work far too early, if only it was the
> other way round!
>

Well, one consolation might be that you could stay in bed a bit longer
if the forecast is for more wind..

I'd suggest treating yourself to a nice pint en route to cheer you up.

I've had the opposite today.. Flew home across SW London with a nice
tailwind

Pete

Richard Goodman

"Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:-OKcnSBQJrG7anLcSa8jmw@karoo.co.uk...
>I wish the wind would change direction soon.

I don't usually respond just to say me too, but this time I'll make an
exception! It seems to have gone on for at least a couple of weeks and I'm
really getting fed up with having to ride into a fairly strong wind into
work in the mornings. And I never, ever (well rarely) get any benefit on
the way back to make up for it, because it's either died down or is just a
cross wind which is just as bad.

It made such a pleasant change to be in Switzerland at the weekend - no wind
that I noticed, only hills - they seemed so much preferable!

Rich

Adrian Boliston

"Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I wish the wind would change direction soon. I'm fed up of doing a
> full day at work and then facing a 12 mile ride into a 50 mph
> headwind. Last night it took me 90 minutes to ride home, sometimes
> the gusts of wind slowed me down to walking pace. I'm also arriving
> at work far too early, if only it was the other way round!

I've been fine recently as I work almost due west from where I live, so it's
been a struggle to get into work apart from this morning when I managed to
draft a slowish (c 20mph) van till it dropped me on an incline and dumped me
into a headwind which left me struggling at 10mph the rest of the way.

Coming home I was clicking up through the gears while almost freewheeling
and was up to almost 40mph before putting much pressure on the pedals.

Jack Ouzzi

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:23:36 -0000, "Simon Mason"
<simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote:

>I wish the wind would change direction soon. I'm fed up of doing a full day
>at work and then facing a 12 mile ride into a 50 mph headwind. Last night it
>took me 90 minutes to ride home, sometimes the gusts of wind slowed me down
>to walking pace. I'm also arriving at work far too early, if only it was the
>other way round!

Aha but just think how fit you will be by April :-)