So around 8:15 pm when the rest of my family is winding down and getting ready for bed, I mounted my bike for a sunset ride. (At this time if year the sun sets about 9:15 pm, but twilight, without vampires, provides another good half hour of navigation quality light.)
Interestingly, as I got on my bike my heart rate was already doing 90 bpm. But this was a very slow, easy ride. I took the same 12 km (7.5 mi) ride I usually take in the morning and complete in 30 minutes. But tonight I did the distance in 57 minutes.
I listened to the birds sing their evening songs. I felt the evening begin to rapidly cool. (It was 31 deg C an hour before my ride.) I kept my month closed as soon as the sun set because the air filled with little black bugs that looked like miniature flying ants, but weren't, I think.
A good therapeutic ride for the counselor at the end of his day.
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