REACH YOUR PEAK
01 Riding hot or cold
Balmy sunny evenings are here, which means short-sleeved shirts, bib shorts and fizzing bottles of electrolytes. But does it mean more speed on the bike? That was the premise of a recent study led by Pedro Valenzuela that featured in the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance.
Anecdotally, cyclists perceive to ride faster in the heat, an idea supported by controlled efforts such as Sir Bradley Wiggins’ 2015 hour record, where the team at the Lee Valley Velodrome cranked the temperature up to
