Muni "warm-up" routine(s) and best time of day to ride.

I'm wondering how many serious muni-ers do any kind of "warm-up" like
stretching routines before long muni rides. Also, I'm wondering if it's
better to start your ride (especially 2-4 hour rides) in the later
afternoon, when it's not as hot (less chance for sunburn) or, really
early morning, like 7am.

To me. the former makes way more sense because by this time your
muscles are just naturally more warmed up, and because of this you're
more limber and again, you avoid the worst time of day for sun
exposure; 10am-2pm! Because even if you DO start at 7am, and you have
a long 4 hour ride, your STILL in that sunburn territory of 11am! What
say you? Case in point: Last Saturday I muni'd the "Top of the world"
trail and started at 7:30am. Didn't even have the energy to do what we
did the week before when we started at 2pm. Coincidence, or could I
have a point? Ormaybe it's just that I'm used to the early am starts,
and ,my body was telling me so! But still, the 10am-2pm time span
ahould definitley be avoided, even though I always wear full-spectrum
sun-screen!


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I ride trials(which i kno isnt the same) but i do a 10 -15 min stretch
before and after every ride, no matter how long im riding for. Plus i
do a little warm up of lines i kno i can run clean to get me pumped up
to try new things.

In terms of which time to ride, I like to ride from around 5:00-6:00pm
and on. So thats when the sun is just starting to set. I like that time
because the whole atmosphere is very sombre and its not hot or
cold...Its a very nice time to ride.

Hope that helps a bit.

-Phil


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