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Twed 
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Posted: 12 June 2008 at 10:48pm |
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I discovered an interesting phenomenon at Castle Coombe. In my bored state of mind ...to amuse myself ....I tried singing. Much to my amazement and amusement ...I had noticed that my pace which had dropped (assumption being on-set of fatigue) had picked up.
Does anyone have a theory why singing re-establishes your pace?!!
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LeeW
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Posted: 12 June 2008 at 10:52pm |
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Hmmm, never tried signing but having my Ipod seems to make me faster.
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Twed
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Posted: 12 June 2008 at 10:57pm |
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Ah ....that is different....you move to the beat ..... I tried jogging with music and it ruined my natural rhythm, so i don't do it on a bike for that and safety reasons.
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garryb59
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Posted: 12 June 2008 at 11:25pm |
 Twed wrote:
Does anyone have a theory why singing re-establishes your pace?!! |
Not really, but...it might be a simple case of moving your attention/concentration onto something else other than being aware that you're slowing down [and in becoming too focused on the fact that you're slowing down, actually end up slowing down even more!] and becoming to self-conscious on the mechanics of cycling. We've all done enough cycling to understand that we don't need to concentrate on the actual physical actions of turning the pedals, it all takes care of itself and we could quite literally do it in our sleep, it's almost like you become freer and more relaxed, less self-conscious if you can leave the body to 'get on with it' and allow the mind to relax somewhere else. Expressing it like this, it almost sounds dangerous, but I'm sure we've all had that rather unnerving experience of driving a fair distance and yet not remembering anything about the journey! It's a bit like clock watching at work in a really boring job - the more conscious of how slow time is going the slower it seems to get and the more trapped we feel, but as soon as your mind gets absorbed in something else, often quite by accident....time flashes by and you wonder where it's all gone. Dunno what I'm saying really.....maybe I should remove that psycho babble 'Mindfulness' book from the WC!
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NickM
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Posted: 13 June 2008 at 9:33am |
garryb59 wrote:
...like clock watching at work in a really boring job... |
Something on which I am an expert 
Hence my regular presence here 
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Byegad
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Posted: 13 June 2008 at 10:08am |
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Well in my case it has something to do with the "quality" of my voice and the pack of music critics just behind me!
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fards
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Posted: 13 June 2008 at 10:37am |
I reckon the sheer terror of having to listen to your voice at full pelt makes the air molecules run away as fast as possible, hence a similar effect to riding at altitude..  I'm with Lee, I do tend to find that I ride faster if I've got music on, but then most of the stuff I listen to involves very fast beats and lots of shouting..
Edited by fards - 13 June 2008 at 10:39am
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PhilO
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Posted: 17 June 2008 at 9:45am |
Twed wrote:
Ah ....that is different....you move to the beat ..... I tried jogging with music and it ruined my natural rhythm, so i don't do it on a bike for that and safety reasons. |
If you sing to yourself, though, you'll choose a tune and rhythm which matches your pedalling. That then helps maintain that tempo. If you listen to pre-recorded music, the tempo is imposed from outside (and changes for each track) so it interferes with your pedalling speed.
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Twed
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Posted: 17 June 2008 at 12:37pm |
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Ah ....but my song repertoire is short and eccentric ....most which may be slow like my natural rythum, but whoes lyrics should not be sung loudly in public :O)
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PhilO
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Posted: 17 June 2008 at 1:04pm |
So that's why you have the fairing!
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Why does singing make you go faster?