Originally Posted by
livedarklions
Your OP:
Your reformulation of your OP:
So let's see, your "spirit" of the OP is not expressed when you said EXPLICITLY that speed of travel doesn't matter?
And yes, if you take pains to differentiate wind direction and "speed of travel" as factors, it's quite clear you don't understand that air resistance increases with speed.
So, as to the spirit of your op being right, cool story, bro...
You said something clearly wrong, get over it.
Okay, here's the OP that I replied to
I biked about 30 minutes yesterday, with higher intensity, and averaged about 15 miles per hour. Keep in mind this is in a residential\neighborhood area, and there was quite a few stops and such.
Given that this was a stop-start route, and the higher intensity run averaged 15 mph, what would you estimate to be the fractional increase in energy expenditure due to the increase in air resistance compared to cycling at say 12 mph?