I have a new favorite Zwift group ride.
It’s the Herd’s Monday Morning Coffee Crew. Reasonably paced, full of dad jokes, and just 45 minutes long, it’s the perfect way to kick off the week.
The challenge is that it starts at 5:55 am.
It means I get up at 5 and have time for breakfast and coffee and then ride. And the pace is gentle enough that I can even multitask a bit and check in on overnight emails while riding.
It’s a good mix of early rising North Americans– this week it was led by a woman from nearby Toronto– and retired UK cyclists who are joining at a more reasonable hour. Or UK stay at home parents or UK #wfh people who are taking the “work” part of “work from home” lightly.
I haven’t checked out the discord channel yet. That would require finding my headphones very early in the morning and I’m not quite there yet.
I ❤️ it.
I mean, I’ve always loved very early morning exercise. It feels like found time. I’m just sleepy the next evening and go to bed early and set myself up well for a week of early to bed, early to rise. By the time 8 am personal training rolls around on Thursday it feels like a luxurious sleep in.
There is also something about Monday morning exercise that feels particularly right. It sets the tone for the week. Here is a thing that really matters, and I get it in first. If I workout on Monday I notice in more likely to fit in weekday workouts and less likely to weekend warrior it.
How about you? Are you a Monday workout person or are you more likely to give Mondays a miss after a weekend of movement?
See past posts about Mondays:
Movement Monday isn’t Magic but Move Anyway, but only if it works for you
Why I try to exercise on Mondays, or see you in the weight room this afternoon!
Monday is great. I almost always do an online yoga class with a teacher I’ve known for years, and often do some walking or running, and maybe a few errand-y bike rides, but never any of the more intense stuff. Not after doing a long ride on the weekend.
Your group ride sounds nice, even 5:55AM not so bad…until I do the math & figure out what that would mean in California!
It’s great to follow all you have achieved with your new knees, and great you have recovered from all your November miseries.