Not mine

My ritual is mostly about making sure I have all the right stuff.

When I get home I park my bike in the rack, hang my helmet off the stem, put my biking keychain (mini garage door opener, front door key, and bike lock key) and work badge/lanyard in the helmet, kick off my 'cycling' shoes (currently NB trail runners), grab my polo, socks, and underwear from the day out of the kittier.

In the morning, I open the top 3 drawers of the dresser and grab whatever socks, underwear, and polo are nearest at hand (yes I get dressed in the dark), open the garage door, put them in the kittier, put the lanyard/badge on top (so it's not buried when I need to get into work) and keychain in my pocket, put on cycling socks, shoes and helmet, my quarterzip pullover if it's chilly, gloves if it's cold, merino midlayer if it's really cold, and roll out.

Jeans/shoes/towel live in the locker room at work where I can shower.


Another small thing, whenever I'm leaving work and I roll over the triangular metal bar the automatic gate rolls on, I feel for whether my tires have gotten too soft, and I should pump the next day. Usually every 3-4 weeks I'll pump my fatties up to 40. Currently I'm procrastinating dealing with an intermittent slow leak, so I'll pump the rear up to 50 every morning. Most days I can still ride home and it's not really even that soft. One day I was dead flat and had to pump before I could ride. It's weird.