What are your cycling affirmations?

[Catrin]

I find myself doing one of two things on the bike. When I am on the mountain bike trail and am in a section that makes me nervous for whatever reason, I find myself singing the "circus song" (the notes, not lyrics), and smiling as much as I can. This seems to relax me and allows me to focus on the trail and not my nerves.

On the road when climbing a hard hill I find myself going "pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal" under my breath. It works

[tealtreak]

wow- so many of these are cute and sweet- guess I do belong with my gnarly boy mountain bikers because I usually sing heavy metal or fight songs to myself when it gets brutal (: