6:30 Up
6:31 Shower
6:45 Dress
7:00 Wake up child
7:01 Care for bird
7:02 Remove bike from garage
7:05 Make breakfast
7:15 Have breakfast
7:25 Clean up
7:29 Return bird to cage
7:30 Leave house, walk with child to school bus stop
7:40 Wave goodbye to child, start riding
8:10 Arrive at work
8:11 Start work

Paul

Tue: 10:30 wake, 12:30 leave, 1:00 start
Thu: 10:30 wake, 1:30 leave, 2:00 start (Thursday nights are the scheduled stop for groceries on the way home.)
Fri: 7:00 wake, 9:30 leave, 10:00 start
Sat: 6:00 wake, 7:45 leave, 9:30 start (On Saturdays, conditions permitting, I take a long loop to work so I don't feel cheated out of weekend riding. I also stop for breakfast at the diner near work. Some days, I even take the long loop home.)

I wake up at 5:30 a.m. to shower, eat, etc.

Leave home at about 7:00 a.m. for 10 mile one way commute.

Start work at 8:00 a.m.

Back when I worked for the government, I was much faster. I got off work at 4:15 p.m. and I was usually home by 4:00 p.m.!!

3:30 get up
3:50 leave the house for my 27 mile commute
5:50 arrive at work and take a shower
6:10 start work

I can only manage getting up at 3:30 one day a week. Normally I get up at 5:00. To save time in the morning I eat on the bike (protein shake in a water bottle, banana, maybe a cliff bar, water).

Getting a hot cup of tea, once at work, feels just as good as the shower.

0530 - Wake, toast etc
0630 - Begin Commute
0730 - Arrive at work
1730 - Leave, and commence commute
1930 - Home
2300 - Bed (I am a hopeless sleeper though)

0530 - alarm starts going off
0630 - I get tired of hitting the snooze, so I finally get up
0650 - dressed & out of the house
0657 - check in at work

0700-0730 - breakfast at the Korean-run sub shop
0730-0800 - change clothes, figure out what we're doing for the day
0800 - start working
between 1500-1600 - go home

I shower the night before (helps keep the sheets nicer) and make sure I've got everything ready before going to bed. I don't want to wake up in a rush and forget something important.

3 miles one way.

Up at 10:30 a.m. Leave at 3:30 p.m.! Arrive home around 1 a.m.

My winter routine is very different from summer. Some sort of hibernation instinct kicks in which makes it very tough for me to get out of the house early. I suppose that's fine since it's usually too cold to lengthen my commute much anyhow (Minneapolis area).

Winter Commute Schedule:
0500 alarm clock first goes off
0600 alarm clock shuts off after an hour of snoozing
0615 I'm finally out of bed and getting cleaned up (currently no showers at work)
0630 Get dressed with most of my winter layers
0640 Eat something while watching the Weather Channel and realizing I over/underdressed
0650 Find work clothes, roll them up, and throw them in the messenger bag
0700 Get lunch around and finish packing bag for the day
0705 Final preparations (gloves/balaclavas/goggles/boots/etc.)
0710 Leave the house for a seven mile commute
0740 Arrive at work, lock the bike up to the parking garage
0745 Unpack at desk and turn on the fan to cool down
0750 Baby wipe shower in the bathroom stall and change clothes, etc.
0800 Start working

Non-winter commutes usually have me leaving the house by 0530 or 0600 at the latest. We're also getting a fitness center/showers at my building in a couple months, which will drastically change my routine. I've had showers at previous jobs, so I'm pretty excited about having one upon arrival again.

4:00-4:30 Get up, drink coffee, fool around on internet especially BF and NOAA weather. The weather can be important when you're going to be outside all day. Wife fixes breakfast.
4:30-5:00 Eat breakfast, dress and prep to ride.
5:00-5:20 Leave for work.
5:40-5:50 Arrive at work. Make coffee, change, prep for day.
6:00-4:30 (Mon) Work
6:00-2:30 (Tues-Thurs) Work
6:00-12:00 (Fri) Work
After-Change, prep for ride, ride home.

8:00-9:00 Bedtime.

Up at 7-ish
shave
shower
dress
out the door @ 7:30-ish
At my desk @ 7:50-ish
leave work at 5:00-ish
home by 5:30-ish
in bed by midnight


My wife gets up @ exactly 7:12 and leaves the same time I do.

We hate mornings. They suck the life out of you like nothing else I can imagine.

5:30 out of bed
coffee, breakfast, read paper, dress
6:00 or 6:05 on the bike
6:15 drop bag at office bike locker
6:30 meet buddy for pre-work ride
8:05 lock up bike, shower, dress for the office
8:30 sit down at desk

Too late. Always too late.

No argument. It's just psychological for me. I love the night - I guess I associate it with pleasure and relaxation. Would be a shame to waste it by sleeping through it.

Winter Schedule

4:15 am Wake up w/o alarm
4:15 and 20 seconds Prep coffee with wife!
4:20 Read paper if it arrived on time (if not, waste time on BF)
4:45 Change into riding gear, gather up lights and foot toasters that were charged
5:00 Out the door
6:15-30 Arrive at work, lock bike in garage, cleanup, prep oatmeal
6:45 Check stock market
7:00 Work
5- 6:00 pm Go home
9:30 Sleep

Summer Schedule

24 hours of light I can ride anytime w/o lights!!

Up at around 8-9am.
Do stuff.
Dress for ride at 2:45pm.
Leave for my 6km ride at 3:00pm.
Arrive at work 3:25ish, change from gear.
Ride home 11:25pm.
In bed by 12:30am.
Rinse and repeat.

4:20 am up
4:50-5:00 am out the door
6:15 @ work ( 21 mile commute into DC )
2:15 pm off work, out the door on the bike by 2:30pm
Home between 4 and 6 pm depending on the training schedule for the day.
In bed by 10pm.

My first post here I just registered today. Anyways here's my routine:

Get up at 5:00 AM and eat breakfast and pack up and get ready.
Leave around 5:45 AM and arrive at work by anywhere from 6:30 -6:50 it all depends on the conditions and wind. I love getting up early.
I finish work at 4:30 and arrive home at around 5:15.
Go to bed at 10:30-11:00 PM

I forgot to mention, I prep the bike the night before (check tire pressure etc) and pack my things like the extra clothes into my backpack. In the morning, I am usually too rushed to want to do these things. Oh and to decide which bike to ride in the morning (full sized bike if I have no appointments, and the Dahon foldie if I am meeting the wife for a date).

However, one thing I really DO before I leave in the morning, is to check the gears and lights. My toddlers like to shift my gear trigger levers and turn on my lights. Hahaha!

6:30 alarm goes off
6:50 wake up, brush teeth, dress
7:00 pump tires & out the door for 19 miles
8:00 arrive at office, check email and voicemail while i change shoes & shirt, freshen up
9:30 everyone shows up
5:30 everyone leaves
6:00 change shoes & shirt
6:10 out the door
X:XX back home when i feel like it

i do this 3 or 4 days a week depending on my schedule and meetings. i just prepare everything the night before so i don't have to deal with it in the morning (iron pants, pack bag, pack lunch, shower, shave). i'm in bed by 11pm. sometimes i hit the gym, a group ride or something crazy like a 60 mile detour before i hit home.

I work on shift. Twice a week have to be at the pool at 6.15am for lifeguard duty.
5.30 wake up, usually before alarm. Wash up, feed my 2 lovebirds and a Blue-fronted Amazon parrot and fishes. Have my cup of coffee.
6.00 Do a quick check on the bike and off I go. Well from home to pool is only 3.5km.

up at 5:30
put the water on for the french press
make a deposit
coffee 'til 6
wake my son/feed my son/find clothes for my son: 6:00AM
email/bikeforums/more coffee: 6:00AM-6:45AM
start getting myself dressed: 6:45AM
finish getting dressed: 7:00AM
summon my son to the bathroom to get him to brush: 7:00AM - 7:15AM

out the door around 7:15AM
ride to son's daycare, arrive: 7:40AM
ride 22miles to my office, arrive: 8:50AM

the rest of the day is spent preparing for the ride home

5:45 alarm goes off
6:00 - 6:15 alarm goes off again...I get out of bed, dress for riding, pack, brush teeth, check bike
6:15 - 6:30 Out the door. (saying bye to kids, etc.)
6:30 - 7:00 5 miles of fun. (Yes, I'm slow)
7:00 - 7:15 Arrive, lock up bike, walk to locker room.
7:15 - 7:45 Shower, dress, walk to office
7:45 Start work...eat yogurt or drink coffee from caf. at work.

5.3 mile (20-25 minutes) ride to work. Below is my normal morning routine.

6:00 am alarm goes off and I'm up
6:05 make breakfast and eat while skimming morning paper
6:40 to the shower and other personal hygiene issues
7:15 dress and pack bag for the day
7:45 on the bike
8:10 locking up the bike and changing clothes.

While we don't have a formal flex time schedule, I can arrive at work between 7:00 and 8:30 am. Since I have a fairly easy ride in, a lot of my timing coincides with activities of the rest of the family. Right now we're all getting up at about the same time and I'm generally not having to take a turn doing the morning dog walk. When the weather warms up, I may start showering at work and will adjust my schedule accordingly, but doubt it will change the time I set my alarm to go off.

14 mile commute one-way. Work start is variable, but usual expectation is that if I'm not 'on the clock' by 9:30 am, I need to send out e-mails to folks saying that I'm running late and to adjust accordingly.

7:00 am -- wake
7 - 8 -- drink coffee, eat toast, change into bike clothes, prep bike, check weather, goof off on internet.
8:00 am -- kiss girlfriend (who is just getting up and only has a 6 mile commute with 10:00 work start), leave.
9:00 am -- arrive in office.
9:00 -- 9:15 -- check and respond to any high priority e-mails, drop off lunch, start shower
9:30 -- on the clock, make second breakfast (usually instant oatmeal)

oh, and as to when I sleep, it's usually around midnight, unless I feel like going out to a bar or nightclub that night, then it's usually around 2am with a plan to send out a 'running late' e-mail at 8 the next morning.

4:55- wake
5:05- workout
6:15- ride
7:00-board train
7:40- ride
7:45- clean up
8:00- logon to BF
9:30 work

4:50- ride
5:03- board train
5:35- ride
6:10- arrive home
6:10.30- jump in pool.