Best Time...Almost

Well yesterday when the wife got home I had planned to go do my red trail ride and try to break the 40 minute mark on the Red Trail and back... I ate some power foods, was well hydrated and had the energy. Wife get home the weather is PERFECT... 85 Sunny and almost NO wind. Out to the East there was some bad clouds, but that was past. I start my ride and I am really getting into it. I have a great pace on the road of 16MPH and felling good. I get to the park entrance in 8 minutes. I average about 12 minutes getting there. I am really feeling good and push it flying up the first hill and not slowing at all into the trail. I am rolling at 16 MPH on the flats and pushing hard on the hills. At my next check point I am almost a full 8 minutes ahead... Yes I start pushing harder... The stillness of the air is all of a sudden changed... a little brezze hits me in the woods... I come around the corner to the area with River road and a HUGH gust of wind hits me and almost knocks me OFF my bike... I look to the EAST the clouds are dark and the wind just starts pounding my. I could barely hold my bike up... I get down the path and to the woods again and I could feel the air grows COLD! The rest of the trail for me is in an almost Eastern direction. I could barely keep 8 MPH going and with the GUSTS I felt my bike almost stop! I push hard on my way out of the park seeing the clock rapidly come back to my normal times... Finally I get back to the road and am able to hit maybe 10 MPH while fighting the major gusts. Getting back to the subdivision it begins to RAIN!!! Get home really tired and a bit frustrated that the weather turned like it did.

Final time 44 Minutes!!!!!!

When I get home I check the weather on my computer...46 mPH Gusts, Temp Drop 20 Degrees and wind at 16-20 MPH!!!

I would have easily broken the 40 minute mark!!!

D'OH!