an awesome (but scary) nightride!

exercise duration: 02:04:04 (includes a 10 min break)
hr(max): 182bpm (102%)
hr(avg): 145bpm (81%)
dist: 40km
speed(max) 42.9km/h
speed(avg) 19.4km/h
cal(tot): 1517kCal
cal per h: 734kCal
zone 3-4 mostly, about 20 mins in zone 5

nightride. first 20km through a forest, with just the lights of my bike to guide me. man it was dark, for sure o0 I am slightly night blind, so contrast dropped away until everything was a wash of pale grey except the bit that my headlight illuminated. I couldn't see much of anything, just the light grey ribbon of the path, with darker grey around it and pale grey trees -like columns made of mist- and so and went off the road twice where the bike path veered away from where I thought the road was (the road was still there, just a sandy path for horse riding where the hard bike path turned away - not good for a racing bike hehe).

Also, I have a VERY active imagination. VERY active. There were all kinds of scary monsters in the forest, I kid you not. Luckily I could psych myself away from thinking about them because I could "see" them quite well, and as I can see mostly jack shit in the dark I could tell the monsters weren't real. Until I came apon a man standing by the side of the bike path. I thought he was a tall, pale spindly monster and ignored him until he scared the shit out of me by suddenly moving and speaking. Turned out he was on a bike with no lights (the fool), and had kindly pulled off the path when he saw me coming in the distance. Ofc he nearly gave me a fucking heart attack, but there you go. On the whole, the ride on the path through the dark forest was completely awesome. I had to focus my full attention on staying on the path, and had no time to think about anything but that. Just what I wanted, but even so I don't think I'll be doing it again until I get an extra headlight.