My longest ride & wind

Today I went for my longest ride yet, a grand distance of 10.2 miles. Not long by most standards but 2 mile improvement on my last max. The average speed was 12.1 mph and took a little over an hour including stops. More importantly I met the weekly training goal of 16.2.

The other thing I learned today was about wind and biking. I was riding merrily down the road when I turned into the wind. I suddenly felt it was much more difficult to pedal. I checked that the wind was 10 mph, so I wonder how worse can it get with higher wind speeds. On the flip side, how much easier would it be to have wind behind you