Solitary ride

It was blustery and overcast all day with rain threatening and tonight's ride was up in the air. I followed the forecast and it seemed like it wouldn't rain so when Justin emailed to see about riding I told him I was up to going. He wasn't so sure though and opted out and it looked like it would be Just me and Chris. Until Chris emailed to let me know he was hitting the pool tonight. Ok, just me then. I didn't realize how windy it was tonight until I went to start the ride and at that point I changed my route so that I would have a head wind to start and a tail wind coming home. Or so I thought. With construction on 16th Ave I rode up 9th Line and turned east on the bypass which brought me back around down to 16th by 10th Line. Heading east and southeast along the bypass I had the tailwind as expected and managed a really good speed. Well that was surprisingly the last time for the tailwind. I worked over to York Durham and turned north into a pretty decent wind. It was hard work all the way up to Bloomington and heading west along Bloomington was a chore as well. All the way to this point I kept counting down "wind distance" left. Only 10 km to go into the wind. Only 8 km to go into the wind. Only 6 km, 4 km, 2 km. AHHHHH. Finally I turned south onto Warden and sighed relief thinking I'd have a tailwind all the way home. Well not so. I don't know how but it still seemed like I was getting a headwind. Thankfully the ride south from Bloomington is downhill but it just wasn't as easy as it usually is. At Elgin Mills I turned east and thought surely now I'd have a tailwind. Well not so much. It seemed to be coming out of the north now and was pushing me all over the road. At this point I threw my hands up in the air (only figuratively) and gave up hoping for a tailwind. I put my head down and pedaled hard and ended up at 48 km and a 31 km/hr average. Not bad for riding into a nasty wind that changed direction 4 times to be a head wind for the entire ride.