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Old 11-08-2008, 08:01 PM   #2 (permalink)
wagonman76
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My thoughts are that calm would be better. Because the amount of work to power through the wind goes up exponentially as the speed increases. So the headwind (essentially higher wind speed) would hurt more than the gains youd get from a tailwind (essentially lower wind speed).
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