1) Have a cup of coffee.
2) Check if it's raining or windy, or night. If so, abandon ride for the day, and open a bottle of decent King Valley red.
3) Have a look at the bike. Dust it off with the vacuum, move it into the hallway, the bike that is..
4) Check the tyres. If they look a bit flat, get out the pump and sigh.
5) Have another cup of coffee. Wonder if it's too early for a kipper on toast. Check outside. If night, warm up the spaghetti bolognese in the microwave. If daylight, put the kipper into the microwave. Will find it three days later
6) Change into the velcro. Eat a banana. Feel remarkably healthy, fruit is good for you.
7) If Michelle rings, abandon banana, breathe deeply, take the bike outside, and smile at the rainbow that has miraculously appeared over my part of working class Britain. If she doesn't ring, and it's five years since the last call, wonder what impact a glass of king valley red would have on my cadence.
8) Strap on bicycle shoes. Check on the internet to see if they really are safe.While I'm at it, check for email, facetime contacts, weather, latest Brexit news and whether the aussie dollar is on the rise.
9) Have a cup of coffee.
10) Move the bike to the porch. Warm and sunny outside, not a breath of wind.
11) Fill one water bottle with the kv red, and the other with water. Wait for the phone to ring
12) The phone hasn't rung. Fill the second bottle with kv red
13 Hesitate about having another coffee but think, "what the hell", and hit the first water bottle.
14) Put the bike back in the cellar. There's reruns of Big Bang Theory on TV. Settle down on the bed and start on the second bottle of kv red.

It's another day to be lived.