Biked home in a proper storm! Yes, the one with rain AND wind, not the California ‘pretend’-storm (aka, some rain with mild wind, if any). Right now it’s a sustained wind of 16 m\/s (36 miles\/hr), with gusts of 26 m\/s (58 miles\/hr). It may have been slightly less a couple of hour or so ago, but not by much.<\/p>\n
The wind was mostly side-or-head wind, and threatened to knock me over a few times. Thankfully the sea wasn’t gushing up on the sidewalk, but I will admit to being a wee bit nervous when biking on that particular stretch of road. I found myself wishing for more scenery-blocking trees on the way…<\/p>\n
Average biking speed: barely 2 x walking speed, until I gave up towards the very end and walked up the last hill. Total time: 75 minutes, including a stop to pick up Anna’s bike at her school. (Usual time is close to 45 minutes.)<\/p>\n
Worth repeating? Barely, and definitely not if it were colder (currently 11C\/52F). Pants and shoes held up against the rain, jacket did not – I was pretty soaked on the front, but thankfully still warm thanks to a good underlayer. I do have a better jacket though, but it’s less bike-friendly…<\/p>\n
Surprise of the ride was that having a woolen headband really kept the water from draining into my eyes, and that the ‘bank-robber’-ish hood gets almost airtight when very wet, and thus hard to breathe through. Kept me warm though. Gloves stayed warm even though they were soaked and dripping wet.<\/p>\n
So, all in all, I recon it was pretty successful… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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