+1 for both!

Club rides on Saturdays and sometimes Sundays are in the morning, starting at 8:30 during what passes for winter down here. During the school year, my riding buddy gets home around 3:30 so we try to fit in a midweek ride or two in the afternoons.

But in the summer, club rides start at 7:30 (or 6:30 if I can get a few people to meet me at that time). And it just gets too hot for afternoon rides--the humid heat just takes it right out of me. Fortunately, being teachers, my buddy and I can do our midweek rides in the morning during the summer. I prefer that anyway--as a few of you have noted, there's often too much going on in the afternoon to fit in a ride.