<strong>Mike works out and makes breakfast in the [Kitchen].</strong><br/><br/>Mike woke up to a band of sunshine on the wall. He hadn’t slept well, but with the regimen he had set as his goal today, he would have no problem falling asleep that night. While he took a cold shower he looked down at the beach to see if he could see Sean and Beth, but they either went the other direction or had gone passed the point in view of the house. After the shower he found some clothes to wear, and went down to the kitchen to fill a water bottle. He wasted a moment looking around the house for Katy, but she was either still in bed or had gone running with Sean and Beth.<br/><br/>There was a pretty sophisticated looking ergometer in the exercise room, and that was exactly what he was looking to do. Setting the resistance was tricky, and Mike uttered that only the Swedes could have come up with such a contraption. He was mostly joking. He mounted the machine, set the seat to make it as simulated as possible, and set off.<br/><br/>Soon he was in a rhythm, and his core was tight and aching with each drive. The display in front of him showed him the amount of work he was performing, as well as the simulated linear distance and time. As he was going along, he would sprint for 500 meters, then recover for 200, then sprint again for another 500. 3600 meters or almost two nautical miles were covered this way, not including the warm up and cool down.<br/><br/>We he was finished his entire body was drenched, and his muscles were sculpted from being used so hard. His core was in searing pain, and his system flooded with endorphins. His skin was actually quite warm from the heat produced from his muscles working, turning his skin red. That was it for today. The ergometer showed he had spent 8.4Mj (just over 2000 Calories), and now he looked to start replacing some of that. He was famished and exausted.<br/><br/>The next time anyone saw him it would look like he was about to go on stage in a body building contest while he was making some crazy opaque yellow concoction in a blender.