With a busy day ahead that would be starting early in the morning, I guess my body decided that I needed to ride in the cool of the morning more than I needed another hour of sleep. So up at 4:40 it was and on the bike by 5:15.
Having just enough time to squeeze in an hour ride, I didn't expect to stop for pictures. But the crescent moon with the optical illusion of looking as if its shadow was an orb in the process of an eclipse was too much to pass up.
It was a rather cosmic ride and I strongly experienced the sensation of being on spaceship Earth as it moved through space on its orbit around the sun. Biking, the seasons are as much a place I'm traveling through just as if I had biked from the cold mountain passes of Nepal and now down through the Sahara Dessert. It's a curious perspective because I view where I am as if I'm on a train looking out the window rather than being a person standing on the ground watching the train pass.
The sunrise came and went very quickly. A volcanic burst of lava that illuminated the skies.
Today's Ride: 64mins. 13.12 miles. 76 degrees. Miles YTD: 4,813.46
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