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The Wind

  • 07-12-2009 9:32am
    #1
    Time out
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭


    Training for IM and spent 5 hours doing 85km yesterday into the wind all they way to Gorey (plus two punctures) - anyone know of any tricks or secrets to try and reduce the effects of a headwind apart from cycling one behind the other?


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  • #2
    tunney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭tunney


    Time out wrote: »
    Training for IM and spent 5 hours doing 85km yesterday into the wind all they way to Gorey (plus two punctures) - anyone know of any tricks or secrets to try and reduce the effects of a headwind apart from cycling one behind the other?

    Why reduce it?

    A watt is a watt is a watt and a joule is a joule is a joule :)

    Its not the distance covered, its the work done that counts.


  • #3
    Time out
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 ✭✭Time out


    THAT is a very good point - I ll think about that :)


  • #4
    mitresize5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,004 ✭✭✭mitresize5


    jes same thing happened me on Saturday ....

    I do a 70km route with the first 50km up and over the hills of East Clare and the last 20 along the dual carriage way where I usually have a tail wind. Its my little present to myself and I usually finish feeling like Lance Armstrong .... not this Saturday ..... straight into a gale all the way home ... I was wrecked but have to say it felt like a great workout


  • #5
    Magnet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 472 ✭✭Magnet


    Time out wrote: »
    reduce the effects

    Maybe not relevant but I wear a Balaclava during my winter training to reduce the windburn!!! :rolleyes:
    Balaclava and a torch down country roads at night - not suspiious at all..!


  • #6
    hunnymonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,365 ✭✭✭hunnymonster


    lol at Magnet, Where I grew up a hurley was a weapon so imagine my surprise when I moved to Galway as a teenager and there were kids playing out in fields with them. I thought I had moved to thugsville!

    OP, As Tunney says it's all good training. Cobh - Dungarvan (and onwards) is one of my IM training routes and the wind is always a killer. What takes me 50 minutes on the way out often takes me 60 on the way back.


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