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You've got an extremely high energy cross there. BC and ESS, even more so if the ESS part is field bred, are bred to work HARD all day. All day, so a mere 45 minutes is not going to cut it. At that age my Lab, whose high energy pales in comparison to our ESS, needed an hour in the morning and another hour at night, at least, of free running off leash. As well as working on obedience.
Exercise alone can actually make things worse. The dog just gets fitter and fitter and able to handle more exercise than a person with a normal life can reasonably give a dog. Mental stimulation tires a dog out just as it does us. There is a reason BC excel in agility. It's because agility training works the brain at the same time it gives exercise. BC also excel at obedience. Heck, BC excel at just about anything they do.
Whatever venue you choose to pursue (hoping you do) that laser is going to come in handy as a reward. I can just see you guiding your dog over an agility course with the laser while you stand still in the middle. LOL, only partly kidding, but you can make it work for you.
ETA: Running beside you on a bike is not the best exercise. Not if you do it every day. Hard on his joints to keep going at the same pace in a straight line on a hard surface. Only marginally less hard if one or more of those situations don't apply to you. Think of repetitive strain injury.
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