I managed to pry myself out of bed yesterday at about 5:20. My goal was 5 am of course but the magic of snooze is a powerful thing. I so wanted to be in bed a little longer that when I accidentally turned off the alarm instead of snoozing it, I actually reset the alarm. After the alarm went off a few times I started to feel a little guilty. Brian hadn’t signed up for an annoying early awakening.
The night before I had carefully removed all the barriers to action that my powerful morning rationalizing brain could get a grip on. My lights were charged. My clothes for the ride were gathered into a heap. So I got dressed and got on my bike around 5:40. It was pretty dark. I could barely make out the vague shapes of horses as I rode past the pasture.
A car totally ran the stop sign at the corner. They always do. At this corner anyway.
As I rode around the block the sky started turning from black to red. All the scenery in the foreground was still in darkness back lit by red. Eventually the red started to fade out and was being replaced by blue toward the end of my ride. The sun still wasn’t up when I got home but it was light enough that I didn’t really need to have my headlights on anymore.
It was a perfect time of day to ride. I think it was in the high 60′s but it was into the 90′s by mid day.
I didn’t manage to get up to ride this morning but I’ll still get out this evening. Maybe when the temperature drops down to 80.
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