Extended mileage!

I got a compliment on my Spandex shorts today from a fellow educator, which was fun.  She said she was gonna honk, but thought I might fall off my bike.  That's funny!  I got hit with some beer cans once in my hometown and didn't fall off!

Anyway, the ride home was really nice.  I decided to add a couple of miles to the commute home and found some interesting things.  First thing I noticed was the wind.  It was coming dead west to east when I left school and then as I made the round up the hill and down Northers, the wind shifted completely so that it was now north to south!  WEIRD!  Then, I climbed the hill up 528 back to ridgecrest and discovered that now the wind was pushing me again.  It made the ride really really really HOT.  Anyway, as I pulled onto High Resort, guess what?  A WHIRLWIND!  It took my all the way up Double Diamond before it gave out, then I had to push the West Wind all the way back to my house, which was kind of welcome, because it cooled me down a little bit.

I've always been fascinated and somewhat defeated by wind, but I find that in the hills, it's nice to push a headwind, because it does keep your body somewhat cool in the heat and since my sweat glands have no issues, that's a good thing.  The other piece to fighting the wind is that there is no hill as long as the wind.  So, you can either beat it, or join it and find the positive aspect of the cooling effect. 

The other thing the wind provides in the Southwest is a cleansing effect for the air.  It seems that every damn car that passes me has some smoking shitty tailpipe that would cause a horse to fall over!  Therefore, the wind gets rid of those fumes and emissions.  In California, they don't have enough wind to clean out the air and that's where the smog comes from, plus the sea causes temperature inversions. Since we don't get enough rain to wash the air, we must rely on the wind.  So, stop your damn whining about the wind and love it, because it's part of the ecology!

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