MORNING GLORY
Nothing beats the serene beauty of riding just after sunrise. Empty roads stretching out before you, golden mist, a new day full of promise, and the over-arching sense that by ticking that long ride off first thing, you have a head start on life.
For many of us, of course, early morning riding is less about poetry and more about practicality. “It’s really hard to plan anything later in the day because stuff crops up – life just gets in the way,” says coach Phil Mosley (myprocoach.net). “I also feel that people are just knackered at the end of the day - they’re hungry, they’ve got no energy and it just doesn’t happen for that reason.”
Empty roads are hard to dislike, too. It’s that much easier to switch off mentally and enjoy a ride if you don’t have cars passing too close every two minutes, and less traffic obviously means fewer accidents. If you’re doing your longest rides on a Sunday morning, you have until around 10am before traffic starts to build up (although, as you might expect, anyone training during the week needs to be back by 7am to avoid the worst of it). At
