A whole new world of competitive assholes, dare devils, recovering heart patients, diabetes victims, state running record holders, and CAT 1 bikers, and hairy Schwin Bike Humpers, opened up before my eyes this morning.
I'm talking about the "Five In The Morning" Workout People. I didn't know there were so many. What a huge eye opener this was for me. They span the whole gamut, from Clydesdales to Kenyan speed runners. They are up at five in every city in the US, jogging and biking. Their numbers dwarf the afternoon crowd.
I decided to switch my run sessions to 5 in the morning down at the popular 14 mile running strip I work out on (see my old post entitled, "No Orbea Shall Pass") usually after 5:30 P.M. Same place.
For everyone running or biking down on that strip, after 5 in the afternoon, there were surprisingly 40 more at 5 in the morning. I was shocked that half of the city worked out at 5 in the morning. But they do. I guess its because of temperature and work and family schedule. Get up at five, like everybody else. Its like a whole new world just opened up. "So, this is where all of you hardcores are?"
Try it. You will see what I'm talking about. Its probably where you will see the guys and gals you see at tri events, who talk to you, who say they run where you run, live in the same city as you, but then you don't see him or her, and you scratch your head.
Well, its because he or she is a Five in the Morning Workout Person.
And, if you are new to it, you'd better rub your eyes and get the "sleepy out," for the most of them, the bikers are going fast, and the runners are running fast, faster than the afternoon people.
Some poor guy, he must have been new to the Five In The Morning sessions, his wits not all there, having, like me, being forced into this by necessity---decided to go up and then down one of the higher hills on the course, with his experienced Five In The Morning Biking Buddies---as I was running up the hill. To descend this hill called "River Mountain" on a road bike, and not tap the brakes, you get going a good 42-50 miles an hour, and its got curves. Even after a good nights sleep and 8 hours of work to get your attention, on "real time," going down the hill is basically, "hanging on for dear life," under the best of circumstances.
At five in the morning, it must be horrifying.
As he was coming down, he screamed to his two friends who were going down the hill at breakneck speeds: "Hey guys, this is too early to do this. Guys, this is too early to do this. I'm not ready. Way too early. Hold on." He kept saying it all the way down the mountain. His friends yelled back: "come on, you wussy."
This must have been 5:30 in the morning.
Then another group summitted the hill and went down it, then another.
The drawback on all of this is, is.....your body feels like its 11:30 at night, at 5 P.M., after a Five In The Morning workout. Maybe mine will adjust.
I'm talking about the "Five In The Morning" Workout People. I didn't know there were so many. What a huge eye opener this was for me. They span the whole gamut, from Clydesdales to Kenyan speed runners. They are up at five in every city in the US, jogging and biking. Their numbers dwarf the afternoon crowd.
I decided to switch my run sessions to 5 in the morning down at the popular 14 mile running strip I work out on (see my old post entitled, "No Orbea Shall Pass") usually after 5:30 P.M. Same place.
For everyone running or biking down on that strip, after 5 in the afternoon, there were surprisingly 40 more at 5 in the morning. I was shocked that half of the city worked out at 5 in the morning. But they do. I guess its because of temperature and work and family schedule. Get up at five, like everybody else. Its like a whole new world just opened up. "So, this is where all of you hardcores are?"
Try it. You will see what I'm talking about. Its probably where you will see the guys and gals you see at tri events, who talk to you, who say they run where you run, live in the same city as you, but then you don't see him or her, and you scratch your head.
Well, its because he or she is a Five in the Morning Workout Person.
And, if you are new to it, you'd better rub your eyes and get the "sleepy out," for the most of them, the bikers are going fast, and the runners are running fast, faster than the afternoon people.
Some poor guy, he must have been new to the Five In The Morning sessions, his wits not all there, having, like me, being forced into this by necessity---decided to go up and then down one of the higher hills on the course, with his experienced Five In The Morning Biking Buddies---as I was running up the hill. To descend this hill called "River Mountain" on a road bike, and not tap the brakes, you get going a good 42-50 miles an hour, and its got curves. Even after a good nights sleep and 8 hours of work to get your attention, on "real time," going down the hill is basically, "hanging on for dear life," under the best of circumstances.
At five in the morning, it must be horrifying.
As he was coming down, he screamed to his two friends who were going down the hill at breakneck speeds: "Hey guys, this is too early to do this. Guys, this is too early to do this. I'm not ready. Way too early. Hold on." He kept saying it all the way down the mountain. His friends yelled back: "come on, you wussy."
This must have been 5:30 in the morning.
Then another group summitted the hill and went down it, then another.
The drawback on all of this is, is.....your body feels like its 11:30 at night, at 5 P.M., after a Five In The Morning workout. Maybe mine will adjust.