9.30pm is my normal bedtime, even at weekends. Have got my whole family in sync now too.
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you mean 10pm, right? 
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Today’s ride must have hurt more than I thought!
10pm yes sorry!
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I have friends when training for ironman will roll out at 2am for 180km. Home by 9am, got the rest of the day with family.
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My bro in law and I used to head out at dawn a few years ago regularly in the summer. Best time of day, magical light, the world still mostly asleep, back before anyone was the wiser. We still talk about those rides and promise ourselves we’ll do it again this year. We never do anymore, we’re old now. These days we push ourselves to get out as late as possible.
Halcyon days.
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I moved to Altona, Australia recently. Each day during the first week I managed to sneak out for a ride at dawn, greeted with this (sans horse though). Say what you want about the Western suburbs, I’ll happily keep my East facing view!
** not my photo: I copied it from here
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Besides perhaps in summer, I don’t understand how people ride in the morning. I do it for my really long endurance rides (6h+), but I always ride at dawn! Inside or outside. It’s amazing, my body feels most “woke” then.
#parentgoals
I’ve played that game with multiple lights on the bike and my helmet. It reminds me of playing a computer game.
I’ve got an accidental Strava top 10 and a pretty nasty scar on my shoulder blade as a result of two such rides. Lot’s of laughs at the time.
I headed up the mountain for sunrise this morning. The lookout was totally packed with people and the clouds rolled in right on cue. Guess I’ll have to do it again to get a decent photo.
PS. Nice view of Jupiter and Mercury conjunction this morning as well.
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My smug-meter just needed a re-calibration. I’ve done the 0330-0400 departure a few times, but only once a week max, while the other days were more like 0530… I’m now on the Covid-OT-reduction schedule, so 0615 is plenty of time.
And I live urban enough that I don’t trust the cars on ice/snow so this week was my first full week back at it. Low temps keep me smug, as long as the pavement is dry, but forget about hero work with extra traffic risk.
Before my divorce, I had the horse view every morning. Feed and much the stalls every morning before work 
Follow-up my previous post: this one is my photo. It was a foggy day near Sunbury. These neigh neigh doggos were pretty interested in me, but I decided against giving them half each of my Clif bar.
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First sunrise commute of the year, and time change is this weekend. It’ll be a while before I see another again.
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Guys, great pics, but… you are supposed to train and work out hard… not fall to romance 
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Another one. Not from a canal near my home, but when I persiuaded the family that Moab was a great place for a holiday 
Slick rock at dawn
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It’s pretty cool when you’ve just ridden from one gorgeous vista to the next for a couple of hours, then look down and see you’ve logged 70tss at an IF of 0.6.
Then home for breakfast by 8am.
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