There are a lot of oddball things that careen around in my head, but it's nice to know that once in awhile it isn't just my imagination. The wonders of the internet have proven that we do always have a headwind (well, almost always).

We have several variations of loops from our house that are essentially a big rectangle: south, west, north and east (it being flat farm country here). Today, post-ride, I was looking up weather reports and decided to check the nearest towns on our loop in the order we rode by them. You guessed it. Today's loop was such that we turned into the prevailing wind constantly. SW, NW, NE, etc. And based on the Beaufort Scale, the winds built from 10 to over 16+ mph.

This also explains why MP had headwinds on the last southerly stretch of the Davis Double on the same day I was hammering into a north wind, and we weren't more than 20-25 miles apart as the crow flies.

So, yes, you can have a headwind from every direction and not be telling tall tales.