6:00 wake up
6:15 leave house
6:45 arrive at work locker
6:55 finish shower/changing, walk to office
7:00 at desk
8:00 everyone else shows up

Up b/w 6:00 and 6:15. Quick espresso/juice/milk/banana and make the wife tea. Wash up, get dressed.
On bike b/w 6:45 and 7:00. Ride 12 miles to work (45-50min)
Once there I lift a few days a week.
Shave/shower.
At desk b/w 8:00 and 8:15.

4:30am wake up, shower (or if I showered the night before instead of collapsing into bed, I skip this part and sleep in)
5:00am check email, weather, bikeforums (LOL) etc. Dress accordingly.
5:15am cook food for breakfast & packed lunch, eat
5:45am pack bag, run wildly around trying to find everything I need
6:00am get out of house, only to remember something and run back in to find it
6:05am *finally* get out of the house, hop on bike and ride to bus stop (2.5mi away)
6:20-30ish get on bus, depending on whether bus is late or not. Make up for lost sleep/primping time on bus.
8:00am get on subway
8:30am get off subway, start riding to school
9:00-ish get to school and run up stairs if late or drop by restroom to primp if early.

It's a 40mi commute, 12 on bike and the rest by public transportation.

I agree!

05:20 - get up, get dressed, eat a cookie or some granola
05:30 - start riding 8.5 miles
06:05 - typical time I arrive at bus stop
06:15 - bus leaves
06:45 - bus arrives near my work, ride another 0.5 miles
06:50 - arrive at work, shower
07:00 - start work, and I eat breakfast while working

15:25 - change out of work clothes
15:30 - leave work
15:40 - bus leaves
16:25-16:35 - bus arrives "near" home
16:50 - home (my wife has to drive me home because she has to start work no later than 17:00 and I have to watch our kid)

5:50 - 6:00 cat alarm
6:15 regular alarm, then get stuff together for ride in (pack bag, lunch & dress - everything's usually ready to go the night before otherwise I tend to forget things like a shirt for work)
6:40 leave house
7:30 arrive work (8 mile commute)
7:50-8:00 arrive at desk (shower/locker room at work & have b-fast at desk)
Reverse this order starting at 4:00 and add 15 minutes to commute home (traffic light differences & uphill ride).

I wake up at 5:00, eat breakfast, get dressed, and leave around 5:50 or 6:00. (I like to take my time in the morning.) The morning ride is 12 miles. Work starts at 7:00.

Pack Work clothes, lunch and toiletries the night before (I'm white collar, sometimes suit-and-tie)
Up at 5:30, into gear and out the door by 5:45
12.5 mile ride to the Gym, shower, shave, dress for work
.25 mile ride to the office (band around chainside pantsleg)
Change into dress shoes in office
Working by 7:00

Interestingly enough, when I do have to drive the elapsed time from "get up" to "start work" is the same within 5 minutes either way.

Kotts

Most of my team is in California or Arizona and they don't start till 9PST which is 10 my time. It used to be we could work as much as we want from home but the company changed that policy and only one telecommute a week is aloud!

So what I do I log in to my corporate network at 6:30 or 7:00, do some work and then drive out at 7:45 and back at 8:30. Commuting and driving???? -- I drive my kids to a special dual/multi language school (10 miles each way). Wife picks them up. I bike up during my lunch time and come back 6-6:30. I sleep at 1 AM. During telecommute day/s -- I do an 18 mile loop in the hour of lunch time.

I couldn't even put on all the clothing it takes to stay warm for my winter commute in 7 minutes. Between jogging the puppy around for a while and making lunch and getting all my stuff together, I need my hour between the alarm and my departure time.

My winter schedule looks like this every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday:

1. Alarm goes off at 4:15 AM, where I rush around, grab a fast and small breakfast, and ride 3 miles to the gym.
2. Fully suited up and on the spin-bike class bike by 5 AM, I spend the next 2 hours doing a spin-class with 10-20 of the "regulars" that also dig spin class in the winter.
3. After a fast shower, I ride 2 miles to work. I usually end up at my desk about 7:45 AM.

From mid-April until October, depending on ice and snow conditions, I usually switch to the following schedule:

1. Wake up at 4 AM, eat, load up the bike with my work clothes, etc.
2. Try to leave the driveway by 4:40 AM, and ride a 40-60 mile route. I tend to alternate between rolling hills, prairie, and local foothill mountain roads.
3. Get to work at 7:15-8:00 AM, and take a shower (work on college campus, and showers are available).
4. Start work by 8:15-8:30 AM, staying late as needed to work a full shift.

I wake up at 8:am and leave for work at 1:30 pm for my 1.1 mile ride to work.

wow, some early risers here!

my schedule:

wake up 8:30-9
watch cnn for a little while, drink coffee, shower
roll out at about 10 for the 30 km ride into work
arrive at about 11:30

i find that rising late relieves stress, at least for me.

Depends on what version of my commute I am riding.
For the full version I wake up at 4am. 28 miles each way.
For the half version I wake up at 5am. 13-14 miles each way.
When I ride the bus 5am.
When I work from home 6am.

I start work around 7am.

Some of you people are crazy.... that's all i'm gonna say. Waking up at 4am, and then riding for over 2 hours is unacceptable. I love my sleep to much. I can't do anything earlier than 5:00am. If I rode over an hour, i'd be beat the entire day.......

Getting up at 3:30-4 a.m.??? That's around the time I go to bed sometimes!

Wake up when I hear the kids, usually around 7:30. Feed them breakfast. Nanny comes at 8:30 and I'm out the door for my 12+ mile commute. I start work when I get there, no real schedule. I never schedule meetings before 10.

Getting up at 4 a.m. is only reserved for alpine starts, not working. Some of you guys are insane. I go to bed around 2 a.m.

I get up at 3:20am. Shower, eat breakfast, fix lunch, get dressed according to weather. Leave about 4:10.I ride 8.5mi to work. Pretty easy ride. Stop and buy a newspaper. Get to work about 4:52am read paper, have a smoke. Work at 5. Get off at 2pm. I have several routes going home, depending what mood I'm in. I take the direct route or the scenic route along the bikepath. I like to take the bikepath tho to see if any other bikers are out. If its cold out then I don't see anyone. If the weather breaks like it has lately. I see alot of bikers. Where were they last week when the temps were in the teens. I ride everyday. I have to, no car. At this point I'm pushing 500 miles.

I'm up at 9:30 AM, 10 at the latest. I drink coffee and read for about an hour. Then it's breakfast followed by an hour or more for riding. I take a shower when I get home, laze around some more. The grueling 3.76 mile commute starts at 2:15. I like to get in a bit early, change clothes, hit the cafeteria. Shift report starts at 3:00 sharp and I'm never late.



I'm one lucky SOB!

My alarm is set for 0342. I try to leave by 0410, earlier if it's a head wind. 22 mile trip, start at 0530, 2 * 12 hour day shifts followed by a (1/2) day off then 2 * 12 hour night shifts. Then 4 sleep ins.

If I am commuting on bicycle ( >= 30F no rain and snow around 3 days a week)

- Get up 5 am
- Check weather and pack stuff and check bike
- Out of doors by 6 am
- Reach office somewhere between 7.30-8.00 am
- Shower and get ready by 8.30 - ish
- 5.00 pm get up and get dressed
- 5.15 on my way back
- Home by around 6.45-7.00 pm
- Dinner and then hang out, read bikeforums, some stuff
- Sleep by 9.30-ish

If not commuting on bicycle, still get up at 5, hit the gymn, work out, and leave house by 8 am, drive and be at office by like 9.

We have flex time at work.

I wake up when I please. I go in when I please.





Unless there is a call on a client or special meeting.

But it usually takes me 1 1/2 hour to get up and ready and 35 minutes to commute.

I have a 60-mile, multimodal commute:

Previous night: Prep two kids' lunches and my lunch, iron a shirt and pants for work, make sure my bag is packed.
5:00 a.m.: Wake up, into shower;
5:10 a.m.: Out of shower, get dressed;
5:15 a.m.: Make coffee, drink coffee, eat breakfast, check weather conditions in Hartford and Bridgeport;
5:40 a.m.: Shoes, coat, gloves, hat, helmet;
5:45 a.m.: Out the door, five-mile ride to train station;
6:20 a.m.: Arrive at train station, get folding bike folded and ready;
6:26 a.m.: Board Amtrak train to New Haven;
7:28 a.m.: Arrive at New Haven, purchase medium coffee from Dunkin Donuts, drink it on the platform by Track 8;
7:44 a.m.: Board Shore Line East Train to Stamford;
7:55 a.m.: Unfold bike on train;
8:04 a.m.: Get off at Bridgeport, ride three miles to work
8:20 a.m.: At work!

I either take the 4:31, which gets me to Hartford at 6:05, or the 12:27, whivh gets me to Hartford at 2:10, at which time I ride to my Hartford office and work till 5:00.

My commute is 22 miles each way. I have to be at work by 8:15 but don't actually start working until 9. I get up at 5AM, feed the cats, eat breakfast, shower, dress, and hit the road by 6:30. I usually get to work at 8 or thereabouts, so I have some time to stop sweating and change into work clothes.

leave house 610am arrive about 640am, sometimes i leave a 630 if running late, take 30 minutes to go 7.5 miles

6:15 Alarm Goes Off
6:20 Out of bed
6:25 brush teeth and shave
6:30 Coffee Started
6:35 Bike Clothes on/battery off charger
6:45 Mess around with kids
6:50 Wife home from morning run - out to garage
6:55 Off
7:15 Arrive at work
7:30 Showered, clothes changed, etc. and at desk
4:30 - ??? Leave work beaten down by the man
??? Home - relatively refreshed

Found bike commuting helps with (among other things) ironing out my frustrations before I get home. When driving, sometimes don't have enough time to unwind. Come on spring - went from high 30's/low 40's yesterday (biked) to single digits/40 mph wind gusts/snow today (drove)...