What time of day do you cycle?

feemackenzie
feemackenzie Posts: 130
edited May 2013 in Road general
Out for a quick cycle last night, back for kiddies bedtime routine. Started to wonder - how many cyclists get up silly o clock during the May - September time just because the sun is up, to squeeze in a training run before work. I know of plenty of runners doing it, but wondered about cyclists.

Oh yes, I up and can't sleep.
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  • gavbarron
    gavbarron Posts: 824
    Loads I imagine. I get up early to do a ride before the pool opens at 7. Many others will do it because of work, or kids or purely because there's less tragic. Ironically this was the reason I was out early the morning I got hit by a car!
  • thefd
    thefd Posts: 1,021
    I'm out at 5:30am for 2-3 hours before work. I do this 2 or 3 mornings a week. Sometimes I will go out in the evening instead (if I'm feeling really tired!)
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  • Barrzy257
    Barrzy257 Posts: 411
    Normally ride before work as I'm a morning person, when I finish work I like to do nothing and struggle to put in real training in after, I do go out after work sometimes but it's normally not structured at all. But if I'm doing running etc I can't bring myself to train after work, as I hate running and I don't enjoy it!
  • Bozman
    Bozman Posts: 2,518
    Roughly 10:00am once in the middle of the week, whenever I want at the weekend but I do prefer the afternoon and I'll pull a couple in when the kids are in bed during the week.

    When you've got a two and four year old you use your time better, I've spent more time on my bike in the last four years than I did in the previous ten.
  • ianbar
    ianbar Posts: 1,354
    i work nights so usually 2-3pm in the week. but now as you say its light in the mornings when i go for my ride on a saturday i often go 5.30 possibly earlier. thing is if i do it keeps the wife from complaining im out on bike all day as she is still asleep!
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  • davep1
    davep1 Posts: 837
    ianbar wrote:
    i work nights so usually 2-3pm in the week. but now as you say its light in the mornings when i go for my ride on a saturday i often go 5.30 possibly earlier. thing is if i do it keeps the wife from complaining im out on bike all day as she is still asleep!

    Amen to that! Weekends I am up around 6 but usually faff about so don't get on the bike til 7. I try and plan the route to be on the busier roads earlier on, but it doesn't always work like that. Weekdays I try to get a ride in on the way to work, or extend the journey, but I quite like seeing the wife and kids in the morning so it is hard to get away at a decent time.
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Whenever I want :D

    It's great.

    Tend to go out in the morning, yesterday I went out with the hybrid and trailer for maximum weight 'training' or shopping as we call it, before lunch and out again after lunch for a quick blast without the extra 20kgs!

    I don't work, I don't have responsibilities, I do what I want when I want, tough life but someone has to do it, sickening isn't it :twisted:
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  • jordan_217
    jordan_217 Posts: 2,580
    team47b wrote:
    Whenever I want :D

    It's great.

    Tend to go out in the morning, yesterday I went out with the hybrid and trailer for maximum weight 'training' or shopping as we call it, before lunch and out again after lunch for a quick blast without the extra 20kgs!

    I don't work, I don't have responsibilities, I do what I want when I want, tough life but someone has to do it, sickening isn't it :twisted:

    Would Sir like a slice of cake with that cup o' smug? :evil: :wink:
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  • hatch87
    hatch87 Posts: 352
    I get up at half 5 so even during the height of summer, doesn't leave me with a great deal of day light before, that that I would even want to get up any earlier lol. Generally get out about 6:30pm for about 90 mins. Any longer than that and I get hungry and don't particularly want to be eating a cold dinner at 10pm lol
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  • IanREmery
    IanREmery Posts: 148
    Generally up at 6am if I'm cycling into work, leave the house before 7am to miss the traffic, 17 mile commute takes about an hour so I'm in office, showered and start work just after 8am.

    Weekends if I'm going out by myself I tend to leave about 8am before the 4yo wakes up. If I'm out with the club we start at 9 usually.
  • A KIRK
    A KIRK Posts: 64
    Depends on work but I like early afternoons, no real reason apart from I struggle to get motivated in the mornings
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  • macleod113
    macleod113 Posts: 560
    out to work by 05:20am. in the office after a shower by 06:30. leave the office at 19:00 and get home about 20:00 sometimes earlier if we are havign something nice for tea when i get in!
    at the weekends it depends if w ehave free time with 3 kids to juggle. try and do sunday mornings maybe 09:00 till13:00 or so.
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Well I get up at 02:30, half an hour before I go to bed, drink a cup of cold sick, cycle naked for 500 miles before breakfast which is a handful of gravel etc etc.

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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    jordan_217 wrote:

    Would Sir like a slice of cake with that cup o' smug? :evil: :wink:

    Does one deliver? :D
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  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    Last year I enjoyed going out in the evenings after work.

    But this year I've preferred going out in the mornings before work - strangely I feel that in the mornings I have more time, I think it's mostly because if I leave the house at 6.30am I know I've got a full hour and a half before I have to be back home and making my way to work, so can ride accordingly.

    Whereas in the evening, I could ride as long or as short as I wanted, and I always erred on going to be early, mostly because I'm a morning type person!

    On the weekends, I've recently discovered the joys of getting out before 9am on Sundays, compared to any other time of the week the roads are blissfully quiet, and you can get a good long run in and not spend the entire day away from the wife and 2 year old.
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    Bozman wrote:
    When you've got a two and four year old you use your time better, I've spent more time on my bike in the last four years than I did in the previous ten.

    Interesting you say that as I didn't start cycling until after my daughter was born. I always feel like just getting out of the door is a struggle in terms of family commitments.
  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    I would cycle so much more with the local club if it wasn't for the fact they have their club runs at 9am on a Sunday. No way i'm getting up at 6:30 to get myself there on time on normally my only chance for sleeping past 6:30 every week.

    I do not function well in the mornings, so I tend to ride either in afternoons or evenings. If I am in Austria during the summers I normally am forced to leave on 10am rides, but that is simply because it gets up to 40 degrees in the sun while climbing mountains in the afternoon, and becomes almost unbearable, so we leave a bit earlier to have the climbing done by the time the weather has heated up.
  • dowtcha
    dowtcha Posts: 442
    I work 12 hour shifts so have 4 days off a week. When I am off I normally go for a spin early in the morning, about 10am. I never set out before 9am or later than 11 am.
  • Bozman
    Bozman Posts: 2,518

    Interesting you say that as I didn't start cycling until after my daughter was born. I always feel like just getting out of the door is a struggle in terms of family commitments.

    My case me be a little different, I finished work to look after the children while the wife still works, I get the break because I'm in the mad house all week so I can generally do what I want to let off steam.
  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    I don't think that I would be riding with many people on here. 6am is the time to get in from a nightclub, not the time to go riding :-)

    6pm is ok though.
  • feemackenzie
    feemackenzie Posts: 130
    Food for thought. I a morning person but also a teacher so the thought of arriving at school with no shower facilities is hell-ish. So I'd be up at 5.30 for 90 minutes if at all.

    At moment squeezing in two evening rides of 1 to 2 hours depending on how behind in marking I am, then a weekend friends run of 9am to 1pm ish. Either way, it has to fit in with two kids and a wife so often gets put to the side.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,073
    I would cycle so much more with the local club if it wasn't for the fact they have their club runs at 9am on a Sunday. No way i'm getting up at 6:30 to get myself there on time on normally my only chance for sleeping past 6:30 every week.

    I do not function well in the mornings, so I tend to ride either in afternoons or evenings. If I am in Austria during the summers I normally am forced to leave on 10am rides, but that is simply because it gets up to 40 degrees in the sun while climbing mountains in the afternoon, and becomes almost unbearable, so we leave a bit earlier to have the climbing done by the time the weather has heated up.

    Ditto that's the only thing putting me offer joining a club, I get up every morning about 5.30 out of the house by 6.30 and not home again until 8 so the thought of an early start at the weekend, no thanks.
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  • I agree about kids making you use time more wisely
    What with 3 youngsters, I creep out of the house at 6am on a Saturday morning to get my 3 -4 hour ride in.
    Very pleasant now the mornings are lighter, a bit tougher when i was setting off in the dark, & it can be a bit lonely sometimes.
    For the first hour or so, I can count the number of cars & cyclists i see on the fingers of one hand, which is nice.
    I often see local groups heading out when i am coming home, but I cant really get away with setting off that late unfortunately.
    Either-way its a nice feeling to have 'banked' a 1500+ calorie deficit for the Saturday night out, before some people have even got up for breakfast.
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    6am is the time to get in from a nightclub.

    Is that like a cycle club that rides through the night?!
  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    I agree about kids making you use time more wisely
    What with 3 youngsters, I creep out of the house at 6am on a Saturday morning to get my 3 -4 hour ride in.
    Very pleasant now the mornings are lighter, a bit tougher when i was setting off in the dark, & it can be a bit lonely sometimes.
    For the first hour or so, I can count the number of cars & cyclists i see on the fingers of one hand, which is nice.
    I often see local groups heading out when i am coming home, but I cant really get away with setting off that late unfortunately.
    Either-way its a nice feeling to have 'banked' a 1500+ calorie deficit for the Saturday night out, before some people have even got up for breakfast.

    I can just about manage that sort of head off at 8.30am for 3 hours type of ride. What's more difficult is when you fancy disappearing off for the full day, outside of the likes of organised charity rides etc it doesn't happen.

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