coffee helps. matter of fact, im drinking coffee in front of the computer now and will probably need to use the restroom as a matter of necessity in the next 5-10 min. I'll be ready to workout a few minutes after that. No ride today, doing some core work, light upper body stuff and a short jog.

i like to be efficient

my cycling clothes are all hanging together, with socks and HRM, or if i’m leaving from the office, they’re all in a backpack. it takes maybe 3 minutes to take off clothes, hang those up, put on shorts, HRM, shirt, socks, shoes.

bike is then either in the garage downstairs or bike room next door. might be another 2 minutes to walk over there and unlock. attach phone and varia. spin the cranks and zero the PM. another minute?

all in, probably 6-7 minutes from stopping whatever i was doing before to rolling. the other end is a bit slower due to showering and drying off.

if i’m exploring a new route, any route planning would have happened on some downtime on another day, not right before the ride.

Check my long sleeved jersey for odor, if passes the smell test then don it, otherwise put more deodorant on. Find my riding shorts...there they are, under the Tee shirt that fell off the clothes horse. Grab my sun leggings, put them on inside out, oooooffff!, correct and put them on. Dang, backwards, fix. Take my jersey off because I forgot to put my Scoshe arm band HR monitor on. Put jersey back on.

FIll water bottle, grab extra paper towels for snot rags, find my damn cell phone - crap - left it in the car again. Check my Garmin for power - OK this time. Go into garage to find my rear tire is flat. Crap. Take the tire off, breaking one of those cheap Chinese Pedro clone tire levers, take two minutes to find all of them and put 'em in the trash. Back to the tire, fight the dang thing and finally get it off. Put a new tube in, and fight the tire again. Air up tire to find the new tube has a neat pre-punctured feature. Rinse and repeat, learning new curse words along the way. Put sunscreen on my face, getting some of it in my right eye - why is it always my right eye??? Back into the house to flush out the errant goo, wife says the garbage can is starting to smell, so can I take out the garbage on my way? Garbage out, and back to the bike, open the garage door and ride away - yay! Oh crap, forgot my cell phone - back to the garage.

So roughly 2-3 minutes.

Sometimes it takes many hours, if not days. For example, I decided yesterday that I’m going to ride tomorrow.

Maybe you need more fiber in your diet. At least try drinking more water.

I've been riding the same roads for so long that I don't plan my routes anymore. I usually make up my mind within the first couple miles, but depending on how I'm feeling I'll add or subtract miles and/or climbing. Last Sunday I threw in the climb up Alpine to the gate, just because I was feeling good.

Then my rear shifter cable snapped 20 miles from home.

Let's see, I have a ride coming up tomorrow.
I've downloaded the route from the ride website in RideW/GPS, converted it to a FIT file, uploaded that to my Garmin 1040. Meanwhile, my electronics are all plugged into my multi-port USB charging station - headlight, Varia radar, helmet tail light, GoPro battery, auxiliary battery for the GoPro, SRAM batteries, and my HRM. Phone goes on the charger tonight, along with my BT open earbuds (I only wear one) so I can get turn by turn voice commands along the route. I've already laid out my kit, found my shoes, helmet, gloves, and sunglasses. Water bottles are filled with Gatorade and in the refrigerator and energy bars are next to them (they don't need to be kept cold, but that way I won't forget them.)
If you ignore all that, tomorrow I'll mount all the electronics on the bike, pump up the tires to spec, get into my kit and head out the door - after the bathroom break.
I'm retired, so I don't need a stopwatch to time all this.

I'm retired = what's the hurry?

Maybe a couple of hours, waiting for the morning temp to hit 50°.

When I was running more frequently, training for a 50k ultra and trying to get in early morning runs to hit my weekly mileage goals, I'd sometimes go to bed in my running shorts and shirt so that the next morning all I had to do was put on socks, shoes, and head out the door.

Can't really do that with cycling gear.

You’ve all mostly confirmed what I thought…that it’s not just me.

Dan

FYI, there's a newer way to get RideWithGPS routes to your Garmin. It's faster and easier.

On the desktop, click the Send to Mobile button:

The open the RideWithGPS app on your phone, open the route, click Save > Send to Garmin:



Then as soon as your Garmin device syncs, the course will be there.

Always !!!!

A consideration always is how long the ride intent is.
In my case, it's always 1.75 - 2 hr ride min. which will vary depending on conditions of ride and condition of the legs...
Longer rides or difficult weather will mean a bit longer prep.
The Frau is always surprised when still I'm pokin around 10 mins after announcing "I'm gonna ride".
I've yet to ask her how long it takes her to prep for going anywhere...
Ride On
Yuri

During the cold winter months - about 20 minutes. The rest of the year about 15 (includes mixing bottles, sunscreen, airing tires) and throwing a Milk Bone to distract the labradoodle to distract him as I make my exit.

This faff isn’t necessary any more. If you connect ridewithgps to your Garmin Connect account, you can just hit “save to pinned” when viewing the route and your 1040 will automatically sync it within a couple of minutes.
https://support.ridewithgps.com/hc/e...Garmin-Connect

edit: ah Terry beat me to it :-)

Doesn't this require a Premium RWGPS account? I had one for a short time, found the 'features' for the extra cost just weren't worth it to me and went back to Basic.

Not sure. Possibly. Had both a premium account and club account for a long time.
I get so much value out of rwgps, even the features that don’t need premium, I’m happy to pay.

I have a basic account, and the route syncing to GARMIN works fine.

Why not?

Gone are those wonderful days I could just jump on a bike and ride. As a Geezer Rider my pre-flight check list is long. Often my wife says, "You ain't left yet?". I do appreciate that she is not saying, "You ain't dead yet?". Then again I have been a victim of an entire family's intervention. Another accident, my fault or not, no more bike riding. RATS! I keep that in mind every time I roll down the driveway... Ha

As to the OP: 20 minuets minimum. (and that's on a short ride)

you tried sleeping in bibs?

Exactly

Yes.

I don't think I could sleep in a t-shirt and shorts.

I guess that may give you more information than you really want.

Yeah, but other than passing out after a long ride, too tired to undress?

Caveats: All electronics are on the bike, charged and tested and clothes and fuel for the ride laid out.

15 minutes with suntan lotion, clothes, hair gel and laced S-works shoes and pumping tires. If I have to find stuff and etc, it seems endless.