On Mar 10, 5:10*am, Simon Mason wrote:
On Mar 8, 4:24*pm, thirty-six wrote:









On Mar 8, 8:27*am, Simon Mason wrote:

On Mar 8, 8:11*am, thirty-six wrote:

On Mar 8, 5:16*am, "Simon Mason" wrote:

Ate a tin of grapefruit at 1400 and left work at 1500 with a 35mph direct
headwind to contend with. Thanks to thirty six's advice, I started with a
very high cadence of around 90 rpm. After about six miles I was cooking on
gas and pulling 20 mph into the wind with great ease. Then I got help up a
tad by these roadworks.

http://www.swldxer.co.uk/roadworks.wmv

After that delay caused by drivers, I pinned it at 25mph, despite the wind.
About a mile from home I eased off and rode up the 70ft high "hill" back
home again.

Well it all *sounds good, but is this as good as it gets or have you
managed quicker(roadworks excluded) or easier?

Yes - much quicker but that was due to a 50mph tailwind, not because I
ate some fruit before I set off.

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Simon Mason

How about fruit, cabbage and beans to give you a 200mph
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I don't really suffer from flatulence and in any case, it is coming up
to summer and in summer you get a tail wind on most days.
In the cool mornings, I get the prevailing westerlies which blow me to
work and then after the Sun has a worked its magic on the North Sea, I
get an incoming Easterly sea breeze to blow me home. Good job my
commute is not the other way around.

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Simon Mason

The sun warms the land through the day and so the local wind blows
inland as the warm air rises above the land usually after 2 o'clock.