I had coffee and breakfast this morning and instead of going to work I pulled on the Lycra and headed out for a couple hours on the bike. It was my first time in Lycra in more than 7 weeks. Harvest seems particularly drawn out this year, but maybe it's my advancing years that make it seems so. I think it is the day after dailiness of it. It is so relentless. You can't just walk away and take a real break. Every day the vines and the wines are moving along and you have to direct them and make sure they don't jump track.
We've got a mild Santa Ana condition going so it was short sleeve cycling. Unusual any time of year here in this cool coast, but particularly nice for a mid-October morning. I rode out to the coast itself which I haven't seen since harvest began. Even though I've been doing a good bit of bike commuting this year it was still all I could do to make the two hour loop. This Morro Bay Turri Road loop I consider a warm up or recovery loop during the heart of the season when I'm in shape, but it was all I could take today.
I've started my gym workouts as well so I'm a bit tweaky around the leg joints from them. This is always a challenging time of year as I attempt to force my body back to strength and fitness after the long exercise free zone of the harvest. Each year it seems to get harder and harder, but I still somehow force myself to do it knowing the rewards are more than worth the effort.
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