Sometimes I sing/hum thing like the star wars theme tune, especially when night riding in woods 🙂
Other times I just try and clear my head of all the work rubbish flying round it
How do you will yourself over that final summit?
no phrases or mottos to get over hills... i just count each time i push my feet into the pedals until i get to the top
If it's a long hard slog that requires mental strength, then I count in threes - that way you equalise emphasised push across both legs.
And don't look up/ahead. Keep the summit horizon behind the helmet peak.
What goes through ones mind while in the saddle?
whatever comes to mind. nothing specific.
Nothing... and everything...
But yunki said it better.
Even the commute home is a complete mental irrigation although that could be praise for survival.
I make mental notes for my ride report
I think about the way ahead to be ready to preempt those in front from going the wrong way
I think about light and contrast and pattern and shapes and arses and eyes and boobies
I anticipate the quiet contentment when the ride is over
I think about things that have happened the other times I've been this way
I wonder why I haven't fallen off yet despite being a terrible rider...
Perfectly put.yunki - MemberIt's the lack of thought pertaining to anything that's outside of the experience that's part of the appeal in many ways..
All that I ever think about whilst riding is riding
Mostly yellow frog avoidance on last nights ride.
How to engineer a better sounding freewheel than Chris King did on the downhills.
On the steady bits I generally think about possible sexual encounters with women I know through work, or have seen in a shop that morning or.... etc, I tend to think it through the early bits....possible conversations/situations, and rarely get past the first kiss or first naked bits. On the serious climbs I genrally just want to feel some pain and try to push myself to give it all the beans, and on the fast downs I just think 'go faster, don't die'.