It took a half bottle of wine to send me into la la land (not in one go, first a glass, then more gulps, until the desired effect was achieved). Of course when I woke up at 4:08am, I wasn't feeling fit as fiddle, so I popped my first Activ-Lean pills (high in caffeine). I haven't used these metabolism boosters in about 4 months, and to be honest, they make me jittery and irritable. At 4 in the morning, jittery is better than dozy.
I felt the excitement first during a steep decent (I clocked 84km/h and passed everyone as gravity took hold of my stomach), and then further up William Nicol. We were two lines of cyclists moving in the dark, probably 8 or so on each side, most of us with strong lights. That's a sizable number for 5 o' clock in the morning.
My stats:
Time 1:42
HR 145 avg (174 max)
Distance 44.7km
Average Speed 26.3km/h (84 max)
Altitude average 1502m
Temperature 4 min, 7 average
Ascent 465m
KCal 1639
As my buddy has said many times, when you're up this early, wheeling through the sleepy suburbs, you feel as though you have the edge on everyone. When you realise how tough some people are, that get up every morning, day after day, summer and winter, for the love of being on a bicycle, I too despair less for the future of the human race. We are - some of us - tougher than we know. Some, unfortunately, may never know.
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