This past weekend we had some challenging training weather. Although Joaquin didn’t shut us down, it certainly wasn’t what I would call a nice day to go riding. I did ride, though. I rode just over ten miles into a headwind. I believe that headwind should mean that it counts as more than just ten. But two things from this weekend bring up my topic for this post.
How does science justify the things that happen? There are two of them for this week.
Magic miles: I rode a route that I have ridden before. The last time I rode it, I clocked 11.3 miles on my GPS. Sunday when I rode, it only clocked 10 miles. I understand that there will be variation because of how tight you take a corner, switch lanes, etc. But how in the world can it make a 10% difference.
Up hill, both ways: Technically this should be “into the wind, both ways.” Is there some bizarre meteorological or geographical anomoly that makes the wind blow south on the east side of the river and north on the west. It makes no sense to me.
In other news, I went to a track meet last night. I did the 100m in my wheelchair for a PR (personal record)**. Even better? I got to hang out with two other wheelchair athlete who were super-cool, super-supportive and super-bad-asses. Don’t you love their smiling faces?
*And now Thomas Dolby is playing in your head.
**It absolutely counts as a PR because I’d never done it before.
