The ride home with a detour to the new LBS by my house was absolutely brutal. Headwinds with wind chills in the teens. 17.8 miles and I averaged less than 10 MPH. I spent a large majority of the time in the lower 4 gears, and had to drop into my lowest 34-28 gear more times than I can count.

There were descents were I can regularly exceed 30 MPH, where this time I only got up to about 18. One long gradual descent where I usually do 20, I was barely doing over 10.

I hate head winds.