Originally Posted by
BroadSTPhilly
What if anything do you use to determine the direction and speed of the wind? That is beside the pain or lack thereof in your legs. I use the flags on the light polls near Temple's campus and other flags along the way. Am I the only one who does this?
I always check the flags along my route to get an idea. However, correlating them with an real number is hard. The wind speed you'll find on weather sites is at some distance off the ground, unobstructed.