It was the normal winter, cold, slow, windy. Change out the tires and pedals at Thanksgiving, and somewhere end of January start to feel tired of it and wish for mid-March when I normally switch back to regular tires and pedals.

But, one new discovery for me as I'm always moaning and whining to my office mates about how winter brings a wind shift that's detrimental to me as I'm riding almost due west most of the morning ride into work (my commute has a 10 mile component east to west and 3 miles north to south), and as morning is typically a bit colder and I'm a bit less awake, it tends to make winter travel to work take an incredibly long time sometimes, just when you least want it to take a long time. Due to wanting to be justified in my complaining, I found some historical wind summary charts on Wind history map and you can pick your local weather station (I used Indianapolis Airport, KIND) and also look month by month using the little wheel of months at the bottom center of each chart.


August in Indianapolis is relatively calm and uniform for wind direction:


February in Indianapolis has stronger winds (maybe 5 knots more on average) and biased from the west ! So I'm not imagining my pain.