Due photographie dalla Giro d'Italia. Alto: And you thought it was cold on YOUR ride today? Basso: Team TT on the Ponte Liberta, the bridge heading into/out of Venice. I always found it mildly euphoric making this crossing.
Also, for your reading enjoyment, a fine article on (again) one of the many differences between training indoors and riding outside. This time on stimuli. Enjoy (and comment please, as I take minor exception to this thesis).
The Upside of Arousal
Among the biggest differences between training indoors and out, and between training and racing, is the level of arousal you derive from your surroundings. Greater arousal leads to heightened performance because there are more stimuli; your brain is more engaged and your emotions are feeding your motivation to perform. Emotional arousal also has a physical impact on your parasympathetic nervous system (the one that triggers your fight-or-flight response) which sets off a cascade of hormonal and metabolic effects that lead to increased ability to focus, greater strength, and heightened reflexes. When you strip away stimuli by removing the competition, it becomes difficult to reach competition-level performance in cycling training. And when you remove the stimuli of the wind against your face and the sensation of speed from watching telephone polls go whizzing by, it’s more difficult to achieve the same level of motivation, and hence put out the same high-intensity effort, on an indoor trainer.
http://www.roadcycling.com/training/Mind_Over_Matter_002482.shtml
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