Up at 4.50 am
Get ready, pack stuff and on bike by 5.30 am
At work by 6.40 - 6.45 (16 miles one way)
Shower, microwave breakfast and eat
At desk by 7.30 - 8 am
Up at 4 pm
Change and stuff and on bike by 4.15 pm
Home by around 5.45 - 6 pm

up at 5, bfast, pack lunch, a little reading and then out the door at 6 - at work by 6:30, take a shower and at my desk about ten of 7

Alarm goes off at 6 stay in bed til 615 get up prepare lunch pack bag drink tea. Leave the house by 7 and arrive at work by 730 or so.
Shower at work.
Eat breakfast at work and get coffee, stretch a bit while checking emails and looking at bikes on fixedgeargallery.
Daydream about the bike ride home but not too much so as not to distract me from my work.



**I want to design a headbadge sticker for my steamroller, if I draw it up can I pay someone to make it for me or has anyone done this for their bike? I have this cool idea to draw a little human powered steamroller for the front, I want to do it in white lines so it stands out well against the brown frame.**

5:30 am - alarm goes off
5:30-5:40 -- get up
5:45-6:05 -- eat breakfast, read the paper, watch weather on TV
6:05-6:25 -- brush teeth, get dressed, pack seat bag on bike
6:30 -- leave for work
7:15 -- get work, boot up computer
7:15-7:30 -- take shower, get dressed

I could eat breakfast at work if time was an issue, but then I would have to carry breakfast with me on my bike, and my seat bag is already pretty full with clothes, lunch, cell phone, wallet, etc.

I PREFER to get up at 5AM, but for the last couple of months it's been 6, leaving by 6:15 to get to work at around 7 (11 mile trip). I never eat or drink anything until I get to work. I shower at work.

I just need to be at work for somewhere around 8 hours, though sometimes I shift an hour or two of that into the evening by working from home a bit.

Out of bed 10ish, leave the house 11:30ish, rock up to work 12:30ish.

My working conditions are, um, generous.

Steve

Up at 5:00 am, out the door by 5:30, off work by 3:00.

Should I think about an earlier start to my day? I think the traffic would be much easier to deal with and I could get a headstart on the day, I like the idea of leaving work at 3 or 330. Feels weird to leave work when everyone else does, I want to be more stealthy about when I arrive and when I leave.

I bet a 6am commute would be really fun.
Cheers~

6:00am - Wake up and shower
6:15am - Pack clothes
6:30am - Make breakfast for my wife and daughter
7:00am - Stretch and watch the news
7:20am - Get in my biking gear
7:30am - Out of the door
8:20am - At work and fully energized for the day

Get up at 5:50 and out the door at 6:20. Usually arrive at work by about 8 which gives me an hour to get cleaned up as we start at 9. 17 mile commute but I get slowed down big time by the amount of lights. Its all city commuting.

WOW I am really impressed at how early most of you have to get up to ride to work. I am up at 7:15 out the door by 8:00 at work by 8:45 and start at 9:00. I eat breakfast at work usually around 10 ish.

I have found that the commute is more pleasant leaving a bit earlier, there are less cars on the road and I like to get out of work a bit earlier too.
The stealthier I can be the better.

Get up at 6:15, shower, leave the house by 6:45. Commute is between 20-30 minutes, so I'm usually at work by 7:10. Lock myself in the upstairs bathroom and do hair, makeup, dress, etc. Usually ready by 7:45 for an 8:00 start, which gives me plenty of time to get my coffee and set my damp cycling clothes out to dry.

I am an early bird. Up at 4 am and out the door by 5 am. I love early mornings. Much more relaxing than the commute home in the afternoon.

I agree and have done the early commute a few times. I am just not a morning person so it seems much more painful. I don't know why because it is really only about an 1-1.5 hour difference.

I am up at 6:00 and out the door between 6:30-6:45. Then I ride 7.5miles to the gym. Work out for 1.5 hours and then walk one block to work. I tend to get to work around 9:00am

Routine is everything to me.

That hour difference matters most when you want to rest more. Spring is a much easier season for rising early due to the sun and the birds. I like leaving the house only to see both of my cats sleeping on the couch peacfully and they will be there for the whole day. So lazy those felines.
:rolleyes:

Awake at 6:45, shower, dress, wake kids, watch and read news, eat oatmeal or cereal, wake kids again, walk dog (unless wife isn't working), holler at kids to hurry up, and then leave at 7:45, same as kids. I bike over 6 miles to work, they drive my car 1.5 miles to school. :o:o:(

4:30 am. At that time of day, where I live, the highway is my bike path. :)

The next question should be what time do we have to be in bed by in order to get up when we do.

I try to be in bed by 10 every night 11 at the latest.

9 pm to wake up at 4 am.

Old commute (bike-train-bike):

Alarm at 3:00am
Out of bed at 3:30am
Out the door at 4:00am, bike to station
On the train at 4:43am
Off the train at 5:40am
Bike to work and clock in at 6:00am

New commute (drive-train-bike):

Alarm at 3:30am
Out of bed at 3:50am
Out the door at 4:20am, drive to station
On the train at 4:43am
Off the train at 5:40am
Bike to work and clock in at 6:00am

I did the bike-train-bike last year and i could only motivate myself to do it twice a week at the most. With the drive-train-bike commute i find it much easier to do it 4-5 times a week. The extra 30 minutes of sleep really helps and i'm waking up alot closer to the time i'd normally have to wake up if i drive to work (~4:30am). It's 4.5 miles from home to the station, but sometimes i really really don't feel like pedaling that early...

Now that's an early commute. Like a paper route.

Up at 5:15, shower, quick cup of coffee and on the bike by 6. 25 miles to work, get there between 7 and 7:30, rest of the office comes in at 8:30.

Almost identical, except we have showers at work, so I arrive at work a little before 7, shower and am at my desk by 7:30. I eat a piece of fruit before leaving, and have a more substantial breakfast after arriving at work.

Mine is about 15 miles each way, rolling hills both ways.

Iron shirt, pack the backpack the night before. Alarm goes off at 4:45. Brush teeth, shave, feed cat. 9 mile commute. Cool down (takes a while for me), shower at work. At desk 6:30-6:45. Get breakfast from the cafeteria, eat at my desk.

Up at 7:45AM, out the door at 8AM, on the clock at 8:30AM. :) Return trip anywhere between 8PM and 1AM.

Up at 03:45PST... pack breakfast and lunch... feed the cats and stand guard to keep the neighborhood bully pets at bay... hit the road at 04:10PST. Get to work before 05:00PST to start my day. I live in Louisville. ;)