With winds 60 gusting to 75kph I was expecting my ride to my afternoon class to be epic, and the return brutal, but it was neither. The trees and houses blocked a good deal of the wind making it swirl around.

I got up to 55kph on one wide road and had to stop pedaling when I caught up with a car. The average for the ride in was 29.6kph which is probably a personal best for the touring bike.

For most of the ride home I was doing around 22kph, so I'd put the effective headwind at about 30kph. I got the full brunt of the wind on the MUP, so I diverted back to the road.

I got the full blast on the side in a few spots and had to lean very hard into the wind to keep going straight.

This is the second week in a row of high winds, and more of the same tomorrow 40 gusting to 60kph.