Jan. 2, 2025, 6:42 a.m. -  Mark

I've made a regular return to commuting by bike over the past few months and something like that definitely makes it easier to clock regular time on the bike. Getting up at 4:25am is a painful thing at times compared to when I used to work afternoons tho. Pluse the current cold weather means those first few minutes after leaving a warm home is a shock, ditto if it's raining, but once the blood gets flowing those sorts of annoyances disappear. The early morning rides are also great in that there's basically nobody around. The rest of the city is still asleep or just waking up so there is definitely a different feel to being out at an early hour.  That's a long roundabout way of me getting to say that early morning rides are a bit of a treat. Sure it may mean getting up a lot earlier, making sure batteries for lights are charged, etc, but there is definitely a plus to starting your day after you've had a ride in. There used to be a semi regular thing of Dawn Patrol rides among some people on here, and it made what may have seemed like a somewhat mundane ride a lot more appealing. It went from just another day on the bike to something special.