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Guess it's down to not seeing the top of the climb or something but I do seem to get better times climbing only with lights offroad rather than in daylight. Anyone else the same?
Yep 🙂
Seem to set new PB's at night regularly too on the downs, must be that the trails are quiet and that I can't see the drops to the side or the trees whistling past!
So much so I just close my eyes now during the day and I regularly get KOMs.
It's due to the denser colder air containing more oxygen per liter, I thought everyone knew that......
Only if I'm night riding solo!
Me too.
I think the darkness and light from your bars / head changes your perspective, so the hills look different. I have way less depth perspective in the dark as well.
Yeah just when there's an unidentifiable noise.
One day, after commuting to work for 6 months, I spotted a statue of the Virgin MARY looming out of the fog - for the first time... It's at the bottom of a climb and my strava times have decreases drastically since Noticing.
The yellow eyes staring at you out of the woods don't half make you get a shift on!
[url= http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/bemore.html ]Colder temperatures help with endurance[/url].
Also, looking at the ground instead of ahead has always helped me psychologically on climbs.
Don't know about better, but I just find the gradient is less noticeable in the dark so I seem to cruise up and I'm at the top without my mind feeling "when will this end!".
No, I don't!
righog - Member
It's due to the denser colder air containing more oxygen per liter, I thought everyone knew that......
Denser colder air would also offer more air resistance
It will be going as fast as you can so the axe murderers don't get you that does it 😉