Your shower routine - shower at home, work or both?

DonDaddyD

So, after nearly 5 years of this cycling by bike malarkey I have finally been graced with a staff shower. However, I find I'm still in the habit of showering before I leave the house, commuting to work and then showering again once I'm at work.

Who else does this?

Or do you wake up, jump into your cycling gear, go to work shower, shave and brush your teeth at work? (personally, I would shave and brush my teeth at home and shower at work).

Also, do you shower before you go on the weekend ride?

bails87

I don't see the point in having a shower before getting sweaty and having another shower. I just shower at work.

dhope

Roll out of bed into cycling stuff, shower and brush teeth at work.
Wouldn't shower before a weekend ride if leaving at 7-8ish, probably would if leaving much later.

rubertoe

Roll out of bed, Into cycling gear and shower at work.

leave work, shower at home, roll into bed.

Shave and brush teeth at home.

jedster

get up, brush teeth, get on bike, shower and shave at work

feel too rough if I dont brush teeth after getting up
hate getting sweaty just after I've shaved (too irritating) and in any case shaving is easier after your face has been steamed in the shower

mattcroad

rubertoe wrote:

Roll out of bed, Into cycling gear and shower at work.

leave work, shower at home, roll into bed.

Shave and brush teeth at home.

+1

Headhuunter

Why would you ever want to shower at home and then shower again 20 mins later?! Seems utterly pointless! I roll out of bed, brush my teeth, get my cr@p together have a cuppa and then leave. I shower, Shave etc when I get in

TheStone

Brush teeth at home, shower at work.
Shave in the evening when I get home from evening commute, then shower.

Kieran_Burns

rubertoe wrote:

Roll out of bed, Into cycling gear and shower at work.

leave work, shower at home, roll into bed.

Shave and brush teeth at home.

+1

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bobtbuilder

Shower? :?

asprilla

I roll out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition, yawn and stretch and try to come to life.

Then I answer nature's call, clean my teeth, chuck on my kit on and leave.

Paul E

bed, dress, cycle, shower, change, work work work, change, cycle, shower, chill, bed

daviesee

Weekdays - Wake, breakfast, brush teeth, cycling gear, commute, shower, office clothes: Change into cycling gear, commute, shower, shave. So twice.

Weekend - Wake, breakfast, brush teeth, cycling gear, ride, shower, shave, dress. (No, not that type of dress ) So once.

"Natural breaks" - as required.

roger_merriman

very short journey to work, so bath before work and thats that.

As others have said rather depends what time the weekend ride started if it was very early probably not, later on probably would have a bath/shower.

My work does not requre or even desire folk to be suited and booted, thus the longer rides for work, hospital/training days mean I'll make sure i'm not smelly but it's causal rather than smart.

aeon

wake, shave, shower, dress (cycle clothes), ride, change (work clothes), work, change (cycle clothes), ride, change (home clothes), drink (beer).

mudcow007

shower before my commute an when i get home

wet wipes in between


our showers have weird an wonder creatures that live in there

essex-commuter

Jump outta bed into cycling kit put out night before..that's it. Get up 5.50am, out on bike by 6. Shower/shave/teeth at work.

rebs

My bottom work desk is like a miniture bathroom with towels, washkit, tooth brush etc.

Always seemed really stupid to shower at home then at work in the morning. Do it all at work. Then rince repeat in the evening.

rjsterry

Usually only shower when I get in to work, and when I get home (and at weekends obv.), but occasionally I'll have a quick shower before riding in if I'm going straight to a meeting out of the office.

okgo

Wake up, cycle to work, shower.
Cycle home, have a shower when I get home.

rick_chasey

Shower when I get home.

king_jeffers

Since I shaved my head I seem to shower a lot less. Although I'm not sure this is bike related

CiB

Showering is about waking up and starting the day, not just to get rid of a sweaty commute.

Get up, coffee etc, shower, weetabix, hack to work for an hour or so, strip wash in disabled loo, work, then home, shower. Might be an additional shower if we had them on the premises but we don't so it's commandeer the disabled khazi for 10 minutes after initial recovery period.

prj45

I might have a shower before I leave in the morning if me and the lady had a particularly sticky night if you get what I mean, but otherwise, no, why would one take a shower before getting on the bike????

DonDaddyD

Shower when you get to work and ride 'dirty'. I did it. It felt minging.

jedster

I do shower again when I get home in the evening so I'm not that minging in the morning. Usually.
I don't find I need a pre-bike shower to wake up - the first half-dozen turns of the cranks and the wind in my face do that nicely...

rjsterry

DonDaddyD wrote:

Shower when you get to work and ride 'dirty'. I did it. It felt minging.

Mind you, you're all shaved and plucked and whatnot, so perhaps you're a bit hypersensitive about these things.

rick_chasey

rjsterry wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Shower when you get to work and ride 'dirty'. I did it. It felt minging.

Mind you, you're all shaved and plucked and whatnot, so perhaps you're a bit hypersensitive about these things.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... op-shaving

Pubic hair removal naturally irritates and inflames the hair follicles left behind, leaving microscopic open wounds. Rather than suffering a comparison to a bristle brush, frequent hair removal is necessary to stay smooth, causing regular irritation of the shaved or waxed area. When that irritation is combined with the warm moist environment of the genitals, it becomes a happy culture medium for some of the nastiest of bacterial pathogens, namely Group A Streptococcus, Staphylococcus aureus and its recently mutated cousin methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). There is an increase in staph boils and abscesses, necessitating incisions to drain the infection, resulting in scarring that can be significant. It is not at all unusual to find pustules and other hair-follicle inflammation papules on shaved genitals.

Additionally, I've seen cellulitis (soft-tissue bacterial infection without abscess) of the scrotum, labia and penis as a result of spread of bacteria from shaving or from sexual contact with strep or staph bacteria from a partner's skin. Some clinicians are finding that freshly shaved pubic areas and genitals are also more vulnerable to herpes infections due to the microscopic wounds being exposed to viruses carried by mouth or genitals. It follows that there may be vulnerability to spread of other STIs as well.

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Enjoy that text if you're having your breakfast.

twist83

Get up, Pee, Chuck cycling gear on, stumble about crashing into stuff and mumbling getting lunch ready. Cycle the 4 miles to my old dears house who is only 0.5 miles from work and on the way. Wet Wipes and change into work cloths, eat breakfast, brush teeth. Pootle the last 0.5 miles to work.

On the way home, back to the old dears, cycling gear on. If I am going out on a ride that evening I will hold off on the shower till later if not then I will shower and change.

I drop my shirts and trousers off during the weekend ready for the week. Sweeeet setup. Thanks mummykins

rjsterry

Rick Chasey wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Shower when you get to work and ride 'dirty'. I did it. It felt minging.

Mind you, you're all shaved and plucked and whatnot, so perhaps you're a bit hypersensitive about these things.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... op-shaving

Pubic hair removal naturally irritates and inflames the hair follicles left behind, leaving microscopic open wounds. Rather than suffering a comparison to a bristle brush, frequent hair removal is necessary to stay smooth, causing regular irritation of the shaved or waxed area. When that irritation is combined with the warm moist environment of the genitals, it becomes a happy culture medium for some of the nastiest of bacterial pathogens, namely Group A Streptococcus, Staphylococcus aureus and its recently mutated cousin methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). There is an increase in staph boils and abscesses, necessitating incisions to drain the infection, resulting in scarring that can be significant. It is not at all unusual to find pustules and other hair-follicle inflammation papules on shaved genitals.

Additionally, I've seen cellulitis (soft-tissue bacterial infection without abscess) of the scrotum, labia and penis as a result of spread of bacteria from shaving or from sexual contact with strep or staph bacteria from a partner's skin. Some clinicians are finding that freshly shaved pubic areas and genitals are also more vulnerable to herpes infections due to the microscopic wounds being exposed to viruses carried by mouth or genitals. It follows that there may be vulnerability to spread of other STIs as well.

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Enjoy that text if you're having your breakfast.

I spotted that a week or so back, too.

notsoblue

Wake up
Brush Teeth
Cycle to Work
Shower

Then another shower when I get home.

I don't see the point in wasting 15 minutes of time in the morning with a shower just before you're about to get sweaty on the commute after which you need to have another shower anyway. I'm only getting lycra dirty, and that gets washed every night anyway.