Saturday's "super moon" was amazing! I wish I would slow down more often to enjoy the scenery around me. One thing I do tend to notice are full moons. I have a particular affinity for them ever since I found out my dad used to count how many he experienced from the time he was diagnosed with cancer to the time he passed away.
I woke up at 4 a.m. Sunday morning to begin preparing for a 70-mile bike ride. I rolled out of the apartment complex around 4:45 a.m. The moon was still up in the west reflecting so much light that my head lamp was near obsolete. As I rode south toward the Estrella Mountains the sun began to rise in the east. The sky was unlike anything I had ever seen before. There was a perfect line where the light of the new day and the dark of yesterday met in the middle. Spectacular! That in addition to the view of mountains 360 degrees around me made for quite the start to a long ride.
It feels great to have a 70-mile ride under my belt heading into half-ironman training program (which starts tomorrow). It gives me a sense of starting ahead of the game. At least for the cycling portion, anyway. That was the hardest leg of my first half-ironman race. I am going to have to find some better climbing around here in order to prepare for the Branson bike course. I consider myself a good climber, but the Branson course is supposed to be pretty brutal from what I have heard.
I think that my work schedule and the soon to be scorching Arizona weather will present an opportunity to encounter many more amazing morning sunrise views. A nice reward for a non-morning person. Although as I am approaching 30 I am becoming more and more of one. Funny how that happens. If you would have told me that I would enjoy mornings even as early as a year ago I would have thought you were crazy.
Tomorrow should be the start of quite the adventure. If all goes according to plan in 5-months I should be at the starting line of half-ironman Branson with the confidence of knowing that the hard part is over with and the rewarding part is about to begin.
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