Yesterday for the first time I wore long underwear on my bike. It was bright and sunny and theoretically the temperature was into double figures, just, but the wind dropped the actual perceived temperature to single figures. I was getting stir crazy, so I went despite the wind, keeping to the valleys where I could. The few spots where I was exposed on a skyline you could almost hear my joint crackle as my core temperature fell. Still, a nice ride.
Of course, with winds over 30kph, I would not have been able to go or to return, one or the other, without the motor. As it was, I noticed that without going faster on the motor than normal, or putting in less pedal effort than usual (indeed more), I used up as much battery power in 8.6km as I usually do in 22km. Maybe that wind was fiercier than I thought. According to my heart rate monitor, the entire effort was shifted two divisions out of five higher than a normal ride over the same route. Some wind!
