[Flieger]

Morning guys. It was windy yesterday, which is nothing unusual for Cal Poly. Something about the canyons/hills and certain air masses warming up quicker in the morning and cooling quicker in the afternoon. It continued from yesterday afternoon through the night and now it is even stronger. It wears me out quicker on my bike, but that is fine. At least going in one direction I can build up even more speed.

I tried some relatively tame mountainbike trails in the canyon today since I hoped the trees and hills might provide a wind break but it was not much help. And my tires are semi-slick, more for the road, so I could not get much traction. I could not stand on the pedals and power up hills like I do on road, so it made it less fun. But I went a ways back in there. It is a pretty area for sure.

Coming back on the road, I was going up a steepish hill here by my appartment which I should be able to easily take on the 3rd chain ring and 4th sprocket (so a high gear) but with the wind I could not make any headway and had to drop down to the 2nd chain ring and still was fighting. Then I turned on a road perpendicular to the wind and went behind a tree and almost overshot the turn due to having the power on and correcting for the crosswind.

I'll take wind any day over rain.