The ability to relax and run well in the face of a stiff wind is a difficult technique to learn. The invisible enemy almost always comes riding off the water with a vengeance, blowing at 20 or 30 miles per hour. Of course it does. PR's were set across the board in the 1994 Boston Marathon, when a northwest gale carried the runners along. Despite the changeability and unpredictability of New England weather, you can usually tell what's coming by watching the wind.
Cold fronts ride down from Canada on a northwest wind.
This accounts for those bitterly cold winter days under bright blue sunny skies. Storms usually are brought in off the Atlantic ocean by northeast winds. These coastal storms can be very rough. Gusty southwest breezes in the summer normally usher in hot, humid weather, often bringing with it violent thunderstorms. The highest wind ever recorded on earth was at the weather station on top of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire - 237 mph.