Originally Posted by
terrymorse
Heiadwinds used to bother me, because they reduce my speed, and I interpreted the slowness to me just being lazy.
But having a power meter has cured me of that feeling. As long as I'm putting out a healthy amount of power (for me), being slowed by the wind doesn't bother me.
I rarely seem to want to arbitrarily push super hard doing intervals of my own choosing.
OTOH, if I’m riding single speed or just decide not to downshift, a strong headwind creates the same sort of existential crisis that a hill does: I simply have to put out some higher level of effort to maintain a viable cadence in that gear.
Do that often enough and the wind starts be be more of a feature than a bug. It’s sort of a way to force myself to do the interval work I lack the willpower to do on my own, just not in a properly structured way.
Otto