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Yeah, I need to get back to an earlier alarm time I think — once I started teleworking, I shifted my alarm clock to 7am daily — a little more sleep, followed by 40 mins of relaxed coffee time at the S.O.’s apartment downstairs; then I’m all set to start my telework shift at 8am (showers have now largely moved to the end of the day, since teleworking.)
To keep the very-enjoyable morning coffee ritual (which arose at start of telework in March; I used to only have coffee once I reached the office) but preface it with a “fake” roundtrip office commute, I reckon I’d need to get my wheels out of the house at 6am. Ride the commute route nonstop 50 mins, back for a then-mandatory shower, then coffee time at S.O.’s around 7:15 instead.
Not impossible… but 6am tires-rolling (5:45 wakeup) now seems so… uncivilized!

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We could probably attribute a bunch of the new, early-morning-crowd-sightings-unique-to-this-year, as a pandemic result — whether people out-of-work opting to get outdoors (who couldn’t perhaps do that last year, if they were morning-commuting to their job) — and/or folks now teleworking (who may feel it is more feasible to go out early “before work starts from home” without worrying about getting to the office neat and tidy after a morning outing.)
Just my 2 cents… I was office-working full time before covid, and was bike-commuting quite frequently. Now, teleworking 100%, and I can hardly muster the interest to ride!

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I lived as a child in Bluemont for about 3 years until age 7. Great to read about Bluemont and the secretive Mt. Weather installation up there, with the fascinating story of Mr. Brewer’s work. I remember Mt. Weather was a periodic topic of speculation and talk among the adults “in town”; all the more so after that devastating plane crash happened, as it was about 4 miles behind our house.

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I cannot resist Moira Rose. So I will try to get back into the grind (hahaha) for next week…
(Currently, I just pop down 3 floors in the building at 7am for fresh coffee at J’s every morning!)

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@CBGanimal 201579 wrote:

We tested it out on Wednesday this past week and I think it went well…
We sat in the breezeway next to Guapos…there was a nice breeze and we sat 6ft or more apart.
I will be attempting all of them next week:
Come out and join us if you can and feel comfortable doing so…
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Is that still targeting 7am timeframe? (Man I’ve forgotten how to set my alarm clock that early, with teleworking starting at 8am for the last 15 weeks!!)

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@LhasaCM 201555 wrote:

Ending my streak at ~3.2 years in March when I got sick was both crushing and liberating. It changes day-to-day which feeling is more prevalent.

The pressure arising from our own stats, accumulating and tracking them, and seeing a streak grow and feeling compelled to maintain it — it can be insidiously stressful in its own way!

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One of the comments indicated it was Grand Rapids MI, presumably under a 7pm curfew at that time.

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@drevil 200616 wrote:

Had a little bit of time before starting work, but not too much, so I had breakfast and #coffeeoutside.
#coffeeoutside by ricky d, on Flickr

Mmmm….. Bonne Maman…!!

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Tues (or Wed?) after the rains, a nice road-based ride down to Jones Point, with the only trail-based portion being the bit of 4 Mile Run Trail to pass under 395.
The recently-ended afternoon rains kept most people inside that day — Old Town was an eerie ghost town, like a zombie apocalypse movie…

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I am absolutely loving this stay at home impact on traffic! I have enjoyed coming up with and trying road routes that give me and my squeeze 90 minute to 2 hour rides that are not insanely hilly… (making some use of past group ride routes with Josephine!) The streets are also generally dramatically smoother than the trails we usually ride, and it is such a delight to no longer deal with the new surge in pedestrians, skaters, dog walkers out on those same trails, and instead just enjoy rolling nearly unimpeded, with hardly any “under 6 feet” encounters. Yes, I would love biking infrastructure that allows this all the time… How nice it would be, to wake up and find every paved trail suddenly as wide and smooth as the new Lynne St., Esplanade! But until that happy day, this has been an unexpectedly delightful silver lining…

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I’m usually tickled when I get drafted on my ebike. (While I rarely sustain speeds above ~17mph on flats such as Hains Point, that is enough for some to draft behind me to catch a break for a bit, I reckon.)
When they do decide to pass (mostly uncalled) and I see they’re a rider in full logo’d racing lycra kit, aero-tucked and racing off ahead, I’m tickled knowing they’ve “made use of an ebike” for their direct cycling benefit, after all — as the (small handful of) riders to ever be verbally nasty to me about being on an ebike, have universally been members of that same general demographic, unfortunately.
That said, when someone is truly drafting right up on my wheel, in what quickly feels an inconsiderate closeness, I take a bit of perverse delight in very gradually slowing down.

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Peanut wanted to scream, but silently simmered, holding it back; she was always saddled up and ready to roll on a moment’s notice… But how many dog years had been lost waiting for Rimas to decide which bike to take?

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A beautiful day to bike up to the cathedral, and enjoy the stunning stained glass light inside! Thanks to everyone who ventured out this morning to join my group ride!
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