I was up with the birds...

I don't use an alarm clock so I wasn't sure if I was going to get up early enough to do a bike or a run this morning. 

It makes it easier to split the workouts, one in the morning and one in the evening, but if I didn't get up in time, I would have had to do them this evening in 27 C plus weather. Which isn't a bad thing, I like the heat, but I prefer to split the workouts to aid in my recovery.  

Needless to say I got up and was out the door by 6:30 am for my ride. It was a beautiful morning, 18 C and very little wind and traffic. The first 20 minutes of the ride was depressing, my legs were still sore and I had trouble averaging 26 kph, but after that I loosened up and was happy with the ride. I noticed that when you ride early in the morning there is no animals crossing the roads, I guess they're eating or sleeping, which is good because I don't have to worry about riding into one. 

This mornings ride was so beautiful and peaceful and I couldn't stop thinking about it all day. It was the first warm morning ride of the year and is etched in my memory.

I also hit another milestone. Since I got my new bike on January 27th, I've put on over 3000 kms. It's actually a little more because my speedometer wasn't working for some of the rides and when I used it on the wind trainer, but who's counting? That was a joke, of course I'm counting, if you've been following my blog for any period of time you know all I do is keep stats.

All day it was hot, it got up to 30 C and later this week they say it will hit 35 C with the humidex. Yes!!! Finally!!! I love the heat!!! I ran after dinner and it was a nice 25 C and shady as the sun went down. I bought new shoes today and I'm glad I did, they made a huge difference. For tomorrows blog I'm going to show a picture of my old shoes and go into detail of what type of new shoes I got and why. Tonight's run could have been a disaster if I didn't get new shoes.

Mod Bike - 2:03:01 / 64.9 km / 31.6 kph / 129 avg hr.

Mod Run - 56:23 / 7.08 miles / 7:57 pace / 135 avg hr.