Riding at the beach

[withm]

yep, my 25 miles on Sunday was fraught with 15-20kt headwinds for about 20 of those miles, and yes, I did a loop too. That's what happens when you live at at the beach at sea level. Not a hill for 30 miles unless you count a couple of bridges over creeks or the inlet.

[solobiker]

It gets real windy here in the spring. 20-30 with much higher gusts. I went out last year and ended up coming right back home as the wind gusts were40-50. Talk about getting pushed around. Mr Silver I hope you are enjoying your time and enjoying the wind.

[kermit]

Anybody doing the EBC century this weekend? This ride last year was great until the last 15 out of the everglades straight east. We went from a good pace @ 20 mph to 12. The wind just stood you up! I hope it's not bad on Sunday, the winds are wicked right now. I too have been a trainer queen!

[ehirsch83]

No century for me this weekend, I will be at Brian Picolo park saturday and at vista view(the dump) sunday for the Bike America Race Weekend.

Have fun! The weather should be much better then this past weekend(ughh I got stuck out in a monsoon saturday morning!!)

[OakLeaf]

Me neither. Florida centuries are too competitive for my old bones! Have fun.

[Mr. Bloom]

The ride was awesome(ly windy!).

We started in Pensacola and went with the wind 10 miles. In Orange Beach, Al, we cut north and found an AWESOME MUP that cut through the state park - it even had a hill that rose to an elevation of 47 feet

Then we went west down Ft Morgan road and turned back into the wind! We did two loops through the MUP to get miles with semi shelter.

The last 12 miles were treacherous. The gusts between buildings would magnify the wind and would buffet us about and we could barely hit 10mph going into the wind at the Perdido Pass Bridge!

It was awesome! I was sound asleep by 7:30! So, now i'm awake at 2am about to continue with the new Grisham book!

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

Silver - SOUNDS awesome alright! Better you than me.. I had enough fun crossing our dam (yes, "dam") in the wind we had. I work downtown though and I know the kind of wind acceleration that can occur through there. Yikes!!!