Could it have been the cold?

supermurph09

Last weekend I was out on a ride, I set off in the pouring rain and driving wind and it stayed that way for the whole duration. Apart from one particularly hard climb in the middle the ride was unusually flat for me as I approached a 2 mile climb (average 4% some sections around 8%) on the way home.

As I was pushing up the hill, the wind was swirling, the rain pouring down, my legs pretty cold and almost numb, my feet wet through I seemed to go into a state of mind where my legs felt great and my mind was totally clear. I just pushed and pushed up the hill. Strava would later show a time of 9m29s, 39s better than my previous best. All this whilst still recovering from a chest bug / cough. As I went up the hill I briefly thought of the Tyler Hamliton story of him grinding his teeth down as a relief to the broken collar bone, and him being in that zone. Maybe the distraction helped me climb better, or something else....

As far as I am aware you do a warm up for a reason, to loosen the muscles to allow them to work correctly. But when you push hard you get the burn caused by lactic acid? It would then seem logical that if you cool your legs down they work better??? My legs were pretty damn cold!!

Could have just been a good day for me, but I wondered if someone could throw logic on the situation or how I can get in that zone without having to be soaked and freezing!

whoof

I've no idea. But I had been wondering where Charles Dickens had got to.

supermurph09

I like to set the scene.......