How the heck can you ride at 4:50?

[Yann Ropars]

What are your secrets?
Why doing it?
What have you learned over the years?
How would you explain this to a newbie?
Is night riding scary?
Are you scary?

[DougC]

It is critical to get to sleep before 10pm or else the 4am wakeup alarm is pretty brutal. I do it because nothing but sleep and my laziness gets in the way of riding that early in the morning. I am usually booked with other things in the evening and it seems like anytime I want to leave work in the afternoon for a ride something comes up or my boss drops by just as I want to head out.

Night riding is another topic. It is fun and not scary with a good light. If you are interested in trying night riding there are a few spares in the group that we could provide as a loaner.