Evening / Morning Routine

Kieran_Burns

It occurred to me that I have a routine I need to complete each night / morning if I commute by bike, and wonderedif everyone else needs / has a routine themselves?

It can be a faff getting ready in the morning so I tend to get everything I can laid out the night before so when I'm brain dead at 5:30 I don't need to think about anything

So... evening:
Home, bike away, empty pannier, days clothes in the wash basket, cycle kit in for quick wash, shower, assemble pannier kit for next day (towel / socks / grundies / tie, work phone), lights / camera on charge (if applicable)
Eat
Clothes out to dry

Morning
stumble around, bounce of several walls / doors / floor, eat something that doesn't move, drink something that moves less, clean teeth, get dressed, put work shirt in pannier, lights / camera / action!

Cafewanda

No stretching of the limbs of an evening? :shock:


My (general) routine:

Evening - unpack panniers, shower, clothes and kit in the wash basket, eat. If it's a running night eating is later and running/cycling stuff gets a quick wash.

Morning - hit snooze button a few times, stumble out of bed, bathroom, pack pannier with day's wear and lunch/coffee. Breakfast if have time then leave. if no time, breakfast at work.

The above is seasonal: Autumn/winter also involves use of second alarm in the hallway, forcing me out of bed

Kieran_Burns

Cafewanda wrote:

No stretching of the limbs of an evening? :shock:

Ooh.. good point - I never think about that

lost_in_thought

Evening (why are we starting with evening? Surely we should start with morning?)

Get home, prop bike up against wall, argue with knog rear light, pledge to buy new light that switches off.
Put day's clothes away/ in the laundry basket.
Go and obtain food and tea, consume.
Watch telly/chat/etc.
Change out of cycling kit, go to bed. If cycling kit is soaked, I'll put it straight in the wash and have a shower. If it's mildly damp I find it dries best on.

Morning.

Get up, put on cycling kit, put day's clothes in bag, brush teeth, leave.
Arrive at gym, have shower, change, lament late departure.
Go to work.

Cafewanda

Starting with the evening routine I found less painful

Kieran_Burns

I started with the evening as I prep for the morning when I get home. The morning routine would've been uninformative without the background from the previous day

WesternWay

Kieran_Burns wrote:

It occurred to me that I have a routine I need to complete each night / morning if I commute by bike, and wonderedif everyone else needs / has a routine themselves?

It can be a faff getting ready in the morning so I tend to get everything I can laid out the night before so when I'm brain dead at 5:30 I don't need to think about anything

So... evening:
Home, bike away, empty pannier, days clothes in the wash basket, cycle kit in for quick wash, shower, assemble pannier kit for next day (towel / socks / grundies / tie, work phone), lights / camera on charge (if applicable)
Eat
Clothes out to dry

Morning
stumble around, bounce of several walls / doors / floor, eat something that doesn't move, drink something that moves less, clean teeth, get dressed, put work shirt in pannier, lights / camera / action!

Your routine is pretty much identical to mine, even down to the times. I have no Camera though. I do add "put something in the bottle for me to drink on the way in"

dhope

Evening: Home, cycling kit in washing basket, 2min shower and change, food, chat/TV/SF4 against housemate, iron shirt for work, hang, check in with the missus, sleep.

Morning, 7ish: Up, stagger about, breakfast 1, search for cycling stuff, pick cycling stuff out of washing basket, fold and pack clothes, cycle in, shower & change at gym, breakfast 2 at 10ish.

Agent57

Morning:

- 6:30am wake up; make coffee
- 6:30-7:25 doss about watching TV
- 7:30 take my wife a cup of tea in bed
- 7:35 get all my gear together
- 7:40 get cycling kit on
- 7:50 get bike out and leave

Evening:

- 5:50pm get home & put bike away
- 5:51 get changed
- 5:52 make coffee
- 5:53 doss about playing TF2

asprilla

Evening:

Put bike in garage
Bathe The Mighty Pickle (10mo daughter)
Clothes to wash
Shower
Change
Cook
Eat
TV
Wine
TV
Wine
TV
Wine
Chocolate
Wine
Ablutions
Bed

Morning:

Ablutions
Wake and change The Mighty Pickle
Cereal bar and juice (make cup of tea for Mra A)
Change
More ablutions
Monday only - pack weeks clothes and towel
Get bike from garage
Leave

Think that about covers it.

spen666

lost_in_thought wrote:

Evening (why are we starting with evening? Surely we should start with morning?)

Get home, prop bike up against wall, argue with knog rear light, pledge to buy new light that switches off.
Put day's clothes away/ in the laundry basket.
Go and obtain food and tea, consume.
Watch telly/chat/etc.
Change out of cycling kit, go to bed. If cycling kit is soaked, I'll put it straight in the wash and have a shower. If it's mildly damp I find it dries best on.

You only shower if cycling kit is damp?

Personal hygene issues LiT?

Morning.

Get up, put on cycling kit, put day's clothes in bag, brush teeth, leave.
Arrive at gym, have shower, change, lament late departure.
Go to work.

lost_in_thought

spen666 wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

Evening (why are we starting with evening? Surely we should start with morning?)

Get home, prop bike up against wall, argue with knog rear light, pledge to buy new light that switches off.
Put day's clothes away/ in the laundry basket.
Go and obtain food and tea, consume.
Watch telly/chat/etc.
Change out of cycling kit, go to bed. If cycling kit is soaked, I'll put it straight in the wash and have a shower. If it's mildly damp I find it dries best on.

You only shower if cycling kit is damp?

Personal hygene issues LiT?

Morning.

Get up, put on cycling kit, put day's clothes in bag, brush teeth, leave.
Arrive at gym, have shower, change, lament late departure.
Go to work.

I shower every morning, I only shower again in the evening if I've got wet and am covered in that nasty black gritty stuff!

Or if I'm going out or something.

notsoblue

lost_in_thought wrote:

argue with knog rear light, pledge to buy new light that switches off.

I'm not the only one then, only happens to me in the wet though. How annoying!

lost_in_thought

notsoblue wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

argue with knog rear light, pledge to buy new light that switches off.

I'm not the only one then, only happens to me in the wet though. How annoying!

Exactly!

I took it apart last night to have a look at it, the whole inside of the light was really, really wet, so I dried it out and it does seem to work better.

The little trek one I have on the front seems a lot more waterproof and still has the stretchy bracket thingo.

dhope

Agent57 wrote:

Morning:

- 6:30am wake up; make coffee
- 6:30-7:25 doss about watching TV
- 7:30 take my wife a cup of tea in bed
- 7:35 get all my gear together
- 7:40 get cycling kit on
- 7:50 get bike out and leave

Evening:

- 5:50pm get home & put bike away
- 5:51 get changed
- 5:52 make coffee
- 5:53 doss about playing TF2

Might I suggest an improvement.

- 6:30-7:25 Sleep some more
- 7:30 take wife a cup of tea in bed

Agent57

dhope wrote:

Might I suggest an improvement.

- 6:30-7:25 Sleep some more
- 7:30 take wife a cup of tea in bed

But then I wouldn't have time to watch American Chopper!

jonginge

lost_in_thought wrote:

notsoblue wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

argue with knog rear light, pledge to buy new light that switches off.

I'm not the only one then, only happens to me in the wet though. How annoying!

Exactly!

I took it apart last night to have a look at it, the whole inside of the light was really, really wet, so I dried it out and it does seem to work better.

The little trek one I have on the front seems a lot more waterproof and still has the stretchy bracket thingo.

Yah, my rear knog died in the same way. After a few times drying it out no longer did the trick

CiB

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Evening - arrive home, bike in garage, top + socks in wash basket if necessary, shower, change, tea, evening stuff.

Morning - make coffee for two, bowl of porridge for one, morning ablutions, dress. Wave cheerio, bike out of garage, away.

Day - some work.

Cafewanda

Asprilla, I'm mightily impressed with your evening routine between 'eat' and 'bed'. I might adopt that as part of my winter schedule

nich

5:00 - Wake up, go for wee
6:00 - Wake up, go for wee again, then eat me Bran Flakes in bed
6:21 - Get out of bed, put on padded shorts, shorts, socks, top, shoes, helemt, facemask,
6:26 - Put keys 'n wallet in bag, lights on bike 'n out the door!
7:25 - Rip off pollution mask and wipe the drool from my face
7:29 - Arrive at work!

My return journey basically involves getting out of the City ASAP at 5pm, then taking it easy for the rest of it.

Once at home, bike against wall, catch falling back, into shower 'n start winding down.

sketchley

Do none of you check your tyre pressures in the morning?

Maybe just me then.....

rhext

7PM, arrive home.
Say hello to family
Shower, change (if time)
Turn round and ferry assorted kids to whatever they're doing that evening.
Get food, collapse in front of telly and eat.
Shower (if no time earlier), clean teeth.
Set alarm clock and place far enough away that I can't reach the snooze button without getting out of bed.
Get into bed and immediately fall asleep.

6:10 AM, Curse alarm clock, try desparately to reach snooze button, fail.
Realise that if I don't jump out of bed immediately, it's going to wake the missus.
Jump out of bed immediately.
Shave, clean teeth, plus any other ablutions necessary.
Get sandwiches out of fridge, assemble rest of pack lunch
Unlock back door, leaving key in the lock and hanging my pass off the key.
Go outside in dressing gown and check temperature
Make cup of tea for myself, wife and eldest son, take upstairs.
Pack clean underwear and shirts if necessary
Put on cycling gear, say goodbye to everyone and go downstairs
Open panniers, curse, go back upstairs and put dirty washing in basket.
Fill and close panniers.
Remember wallet, curse, go back upstairs and retrieve it.
Open panniers, insert wallet, close panniers again.
Radio on, and in back pocket. Earpieces in.
Helmet, gloves and shoes on
Keys and pass in back pocket (left in back door so I don't forget them - clever eh?)
Garmin turned on, and placed on back wall to lock on. Fetch bike, attach panniers and Garmin.
Arrive at work, check time on Garmin, curse (how could I have been so slow?), lock up, shower and change!

asprilla

Cafewanda wrote:

Asprilla, I'm mightily impressed with your evening routine between 'eat' and 'bed'. I might adopt that as part of my winter schedule

I like to think of it as maintaining a healthy intake of iron (red wine to help maintain my CV system) and niceness (chocolate to stop me being grumpy).

Cafewanda

Sketchley wrote:

Do none of you check your tyre pressures in the morning?

Maybe just me then.....

Once a month on a Sunday, cos they is Schwalbe tires

Cafewanda

Asprilla wrote:

Cafewanda wrote:

Asprilla, I'm mightily impressed with your evening routine between 'eat' and 'bed'. I might adopt that as part of my winter schedule

I like to think of it as maintaining a healthy intake of iron (red wine to help maintain my CV system) and niceness (chocolate to stop me being grumpy).

Would rose-ay make a good alternative? Too late to change my Tesco shopping order

Kieran_Burns

CiB wrote:

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Evening - arrive home, bike in garage, top + socks in wash basket if necessary, shower, change, tea, evening stuff.

Morning - make coffee for two, bowl of porridge for one, morning ablutions, dress. Wave cheerio, bike out of garage, away.

Day - some work.

It's interesting (for me) as it shows some folk (LIKE me) do have a routine for getting things prepped and some wing it.

I tried the winging it thing and found I was forgetting all sorts of stuff... like eating, clothes, getting up, that I was actually meant to be cycling in....

rodgers73

Evening:-

Stow bike in garage
Strip
Long shower
Dinner
Various "essential" tasks - usually involving laptop
TV
Lay out clothes for next day
Pack rucksack with lunch etc
Bed


Morning:-

6.00am get up
Shave
Brush teeth
Clothes on
6.15am Set off
7.45am Arrive work
Short shower at work
Slump at desk for an hour watching internet while colleagues gradually arrive
9.00am start "working"

rodgers73

Kieran_Burns wrote:

CiB wrote:

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Evening - arrive home, bike in garage, top + socks in wash basket if necessary, shower, change, tea, evening stuff.

Morning - make coffee for two, bowl of porridge for one, morning ablutions, dress. Wave cheerio, bike out of garage, away.

Day - some work.

It's interesting (for me) as it shows some folk (LIKE me) do have a routine for getting things prepped and some wing it.

I tried the winging it thing and found I was forgetting all sorts of stuff... like eating, clothes, getting up, that I was actually meant to be cycling in....

Same here - if it isnt part of a strict routine or written on a list of stuff to do or not to forget then it is doomed never to happen!

Agent57

Sketchley wrote:

Do none of you check your tyre pressures in the morning?

Do what? Nope; I just get on the bike. If the tyres look relatively flat, I'll just remember to pump them up the next morning. In fact, that's what I did this morning after noticing they were a bit flat yesterday.

asprilla

Cafewanda wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

Cafewanda wrote:

Asprilla, I'm mightily impressed with your evening routine between 'eat' and 'bed'. I might adopt that as part of my winter schedule

I like to think of it as maintaining a healthy intake of iron (red wine to help maintain my CV system) and niceness (chocolate to stop me being grumpy).

Would rose-ay make a good alternative? Too late to change my Tesco shopping order

The only problem I have with pink wine is that it should only be drunk in direct sunlight. If you are drinking under artificial light or candels then red wine is where it's at.

Chocolate can be consumed at any time, in any form and under any conditions. It should be from the fridge though.

woodford2barbican

This must be worlds most boring thread.....

Evening
Home
leave bike in garage
Wash hands
Hug kids & wife
Shower
Wash kids and put to bed
Wash up / tidy up
Cook
Eat & watch telly
Shave
Get work clothes packed
Get cycling clothes out
Sleep like a log in between being woken up by children, generally 2-3 times per night

Morning
Wake up, wake up children or children wake me up
Get them dressed
Feed children
Dress myself
Continue to supervise breakfast & eat my breakfast / make lunch for wife and I whilst wife washes and dresses
Clean eldest’s teeth (youngest does not need this doing yet)
Run through eldest’s homework
Play with children, hide & seek / chase - they are only toddlers!
Help pack wife’s car with her stuff & children
Wave off family
Final pre-departure urination
Check that I have keys, phone, work access card several times
Lock up & leave house