Wow! Just got my bike back from its tune-up yesterday so I wanted to get on it and ride ASAP. I took it out for a ride this morning, but the wind was brutal! I had to down-shift into gears that I didn't even know existed and I still was almost blown to a dead stop by the wind at one point. I went 8 miles and it took 43 minutes and 43 seconds. On the trainer at the gym I have been doing 14 miles in under 40 minutes. I am going to blame it all on the wind and hopefully there is not that much of a difference between riding a trainer and on my bike as far as time goes. Needless to say, I will need to do much more bike training now that I have my bike back.
All I know is that if it is as windy on race day as it was today, I might be in trouble!
FYI: Weather.com says that the wind is 22mph from the southwest and gusting up to 37mph, so that definately slowed me down!!
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