Saturday, September 2, 2023

Night Creature

Have 100% free time on our hands - 

 Upside: No excuse anymore for missing early morning workouts
Downside: No excuse anymore for missing early morning workouts

Sunrise
Used to crank frequent long distance cross-country road rides back in the day, before MTB's came along. Twenty miles +. Some great rolling SWPA backroads directly out the from door of the sanctum. Currently have consistently been hitting up a before sunrise "every day but Sunday" ten miler. A rolling F1 track. 270 miles/monthavg - (say) 11mphavg. Not bad. The alternate could be stumbling about the back yard pullin' weeds - or pushin' 'em. 

Always an inspiration:
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Since the local high schools have recently been back in session we've discovered that there is, apparently,  a few early morning/before school "make out" pull offs along our route. Our near silent, quick moving, white (t-shirt) clad apparition materializing from out of the cemetery darkness drove 'em off each instance - and fast. Pretty funny. We wonder what later tales were generated, if any.

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Reminded us of the old Disney Scarecrow of Romney Marsh TV series from way back ('63). Remember when right after the first Sunday night airing that every eight-year-old kid in the neighborhood was runnin' around wearin' a Scarecrow hood that his mom sewed together from an old pillowcase.