what's a typical day like for you??

[Tuckervill]

Up by 7, or earlier if it's sunny and the curtains are open. Let the dog out of son's room, crackle my knees down the stairs and make a cup of Earl Gray, plant my butt in the recliner and check my email on my laptop. If I turn on the TV, I'm doomed to be there until 10, so I try not to turn it on if I have a busy day. If I'm going to ride that day, then I skip all that until I get back.

The rest of the day is for all the things I need to do around the house, but when I'm in school (in August again) I study until the boy wakes up sometime between 8 and 11. I try to make him breakfast, depending on his mood for food. Sometimes I'm too busy and he's on his own. We interact and decide what to do that day, where to go.

It's baseball season and I am on the board of the local youth league. Yesterday I spent all day doing administrative stuff for the league. Every game day I go down to the concession stand about 3 and cook the food, load the cash registers, etc. Then I pick up trash or clean the restrooms (yes, I'm a volunteer! "You're welcome," to all those imaginary locals who are lining up to thank me for cleaning up after them when they can't be bothered to walk two feet to the trash can. )

I spend a lot of time looking around the house and sighing at all the unfinished projects, which I can't possibly get done during baseball season.

Evenings are usually spent at or avoiding being at the ballpark. I'm thankful when my son's games are in the next town, so I won't be hassled about "how much" they "paid" and "this?" is what they "get?". (Can you tell end of season burn-out is setting in?) I haven't used my stove since the beginning of April, because we're never home.

This is only my typical day for about 3 months of the year. I can't remember what I used to do. lol.

Karen

[MyLitespeed]

4:00 am : Get out of bed, take shower, eat breakfast
5:00: Clean cat boxes, do some laundry, wash dishes
6:00 Take dogs for 45 minute fast walk (only one potty stop per dog)
6:45 IM my girlfriend in Wyoming, talk til 7:30
7:30 work until 4:30
4:30 (M-W-F) Go to gym (T & Thursday) Go for 2 hr. bike ride
7:00 Take dogs for 55 minute fast walk
8:00 Eat something quick for dinner and then off to bed.

Weekends are a different story, actually get to sleep in until 6 am, then we do the dog walks and go for a bike ride and who knows what else.

[missymaya]

work, ride, work, ride, work, ride, etc. Since my BF works more than I, I can ride before he gets home and then when he's home, we spend time together doing all sorts of stuff, like planting stuff, working on his car project or my bike project. We both try to get out like going to small concerts or the independent movie theater but if not, we go to the race track sometimes or the beach. Outside of work, its in the air, but when you work 40+ hours a week, spare time is limited .

[luv'nAustin]

Yesterday I got up around 8a and met my friend for a ride at 9. Went home for a quick shower and then off to the gym where I met up with my friends and attended a CrossFit weight lift class for an hour. After class I walked a trail with another friend. Then I had another quick shower before heading off for my weekly pain management massage.

I got home around 4:30 and helped my kids clean out their closets. Our house goes on the market tomorrow...

At 6:00 I left the house with my daughter, her boyfriend, and two other friends and we went to a local lake to do some open water swimming.

Home at 8:30. Another shower! And then I had the laugh of the day as I was IM'ing my daughter (she lives in Utah) and talking with my husband on the phone (he commutes from North Carolina) while he was IM'ing the same daughter. She didn't know that we were talking to each other and we would IM the same stuff to her and she couldn't figure out how we could think of the same stuff at the same time. It was a good laugh and it took her about 5 minutes to figure it out.

The only thing the day lacked was yoga...perhaps today.

[spokewench]

Weekday:

Up at 6:00 am., fix coffee, get hot tub heating up, check emails, water plants, sit in hot tub for 1 hour, do stretching, go to work by 8:30, Ride bike to work 20 minutes or so; work till 5:00; ride home 20 minutes or so. Either stretch and go play tennis for 1-2 hours or cook dinner, do chores, talk to Hubby, sit down around 8:00 with Kitty on lap and watch some TV. In bed by 9:30.

Or, the alternative in the morning is up at 6:00, do stuff around the house, check emails, stretch, go hit balls on the ball machine at club at 7:00 a.m.; take a shower at work - Work by 8:30 and the rest of the above is the same.

Weekend:

Up at 6:00, fix coffee, get hot tub heating up, check emails, water plants, sit in hot tub for 1 hour, do stretching, work in garden, do house chores, go ride a bike for 2-3 hours, and/or play tennis for a couple of hours, grocery shopping, cook dinner and meals; watch Nascar with Honey when he is watching; Start all over again!

[IFjane]

M-F 5:45 a.m. - get up, grab coffee, take a shower, pack lunch, pay attention to the "kids" (4 cats), refill bird feeders and bird bath outside.
MWF mornings I do a quickie workout with free weights, squats, core strengthening exercises.
8 a.m. arrive at work, boot up computer and fix breakfast (plain oatmeal with skim milk, raisins, cranberries, almonds and walnuts).
8 - 4 p.m. - Supervise a teaching staff of 20 and plan curriculum & instruction for a federally-funded program through the local public school system. They try their best to keep me after 4 most days.....
4 p.m. - Drive home (15 miles, very cycling-unfriendly roads).
TWTh 5:30 p.m. - ride 20 - 30 miles, if there are no thunder storms in the area
M & F - Walk about 3 miles or work in the yard; do laundry, whatever...
Michael and I take turns cooking dinner.
We have no TV antenna or satellite connection but we do get Netflix and watch a movie or two a week. We have no internet service at home (waiting for the local wireless company to put up a tower that will reach us on our side of the mountain).

Weekends - up at 6:30; long rides both days, weather permitting
Evenings spent with friends - usually cycling buddies.

If weather does not permit riding outside, then we throw the bikes on the trainers and plug in our ipods.

[amymisk]

M-F:

Up at 0630: breakfast, shower, pack lunches for myself and 4 yr old son

0800: out to work, drop off son at daycare

600pm: home, cook dinner, quick workout at least 3 x/wk (30minutes), play with son

900pm: son to bed

I might watch TV or read, asleep by 1100.

Weekends:

workout both days, no less than 1 hour. Sundays are my big ride day, we will usually ride 30-40miles

If I get to work early, by 0800 I will ride after work before I pick up my son.

Not a very exciting life. Tell me again why we were in such a hurry to grow up??

[solobiker]

M-F

Get up by 4:50 AM, shower and head off to work
545-2pm work
2:00-2:30 drive back home from work. (can't commute due to all highway miles)
230:3:20 play with dog, do misc errands, cleaning
320ish-400 ride bike to DH work to ride home with him
410-500ish ride back home
5-6 make and clean up after dinner
6-9 read, walk dog, misc cleaning, surf
9-10 read
10 bed

[PinkBike]

—Get up at the crack of 8:30 or so
—Drink coffee, eat bagel, read paper
—Laundry or sewing or cleaning or shopping or surfing the 'net
—Lunch at noon, fight the cat over my glass of milk or the chicken in my salad
—Ride to work at 12:45
—Work
—Ride home at 10 pm
—Me time!! Doing dishes, prepping tomorrows lunch and dinner and coffeepot, all while watching cycling races on my laptop or portable DVD player
—DH gets home at 1 a.m
—I may be awake or I may be asleep, depends on what I DVR'd that day
—I LOVE swing shift!!!!!

[equus123]

~6:00am - wake up
6:45 - 8:10am - commute to work
4:30 - 5:45pm - commute from work
5:30-8:30pm - designated training time (bike, gym, etc)
7:00-10:00pm - designated dinner time
~10:30pm - bed time!

boy is my life packed

[Python]

7.30am - Fall out of bed

7.31am - Put on fresh coffee

7.35am - Crawl into shower

7.45am - Get dried, dry hair, get dressed

7.55am - 8.10am - Pour coffee, light ciggy, put on war-paint, light second ciggy (now starting to become human). Get bike out of shed and unlock side gate.

8.20am - Cycle to work

2pm - Cycle home

2.50pm - Put bike to sleep

2.55pm - Pour much needed coffee

3.00pm - Kick son off computer.

4.00pm - Decide what housework I need to do

4.01pm - Decide that it can wait

Depending on how I feel, go for a run with the bike/do the housework/chill out/go shopping.

That's if everything goes according to plan, which 9 times out of 10 doesn't.

Sunday afternoon - the bike gets cleaned

[Fredwina]

Typical work day
4:30 wake up
4:50 on the bike
6:10 arrive home take shower
7:00 leave for the train station
7:05 arrive at the station , buy paper
7:20 Train arrives
8:00 Get off train and on shuttle
8:10 Arrive work
take 30 minute lunch
5:30 leave work
5:40 get on shuttle
5:55 shuttle arrives
6:00 Train arrives
6:45 get off train
7:00PM get home read e-mail and TE
I usually try and send an hour by meyslef . i.e. no TV, just meditate on the day., sometime it gets too crazy to.
10:00 PM go to bed
Also, the observant my have noticed I work 9 hour days. I get every other Friday off

[Running Mommy]

WOW! It's cool to see how different- yet the somehow the same our schedules all are..
Here is mine right now

5:00-5:30 am.. Wake up to sun coming up (in PHX it comes up early)
5:30 drag butt out of bed and have a bit of something to eat
6:00 go for run or ride.Usually 1 hour, sometimes 1.5 hours
7:30: Back in house, check emails, check in with son who is now getting up. Tell him the usual- eat breakfast, brush teeth, shower, and NO video games yet!
7:45: have a bit more breakfast, cool down and watch a bit of the morning news
8:00-8:30 drag butt of the couch to shower
8:30: Get up to the computer and start working. Get running son going on his summer studies. A C+ in math = school work over the summer. Also make sure he reads for an hour. This also insures quiet time for me to work.
10:00: Input billing and every few days I'll head 20 miles down the hill to the office to print my billing since I can't print from home. If I do go down the hill I also squeeze in all my errands such as groceries and the post office in one trip.
11:30-12:00 go downstairs and have some lunch. Watch Regis and Kelly that I have on the DVR while I eat
12:00-mid afternoon back at the computer/fax/phone working (or playing on TE)
3:00 make my way back downstairs for a snack. One or two days a week I'll go to the pool sometime between 3 and 4:00.
4:30: Start thinking about dinner
5:00: Get dinner on table for son and I- as hubby is usually out of town working
6:00 either do pm workout- could be riding or running depending what I did- or didn't do- that morning. Or I will take son down to play basketball or tennis. SOmetimes we take the mtn bikes out. It just depends.
8:00 come back from evening foray and have a sugar free popsicle on the back patio while I chat with running son about the day
9:00 get him into bed, go back to checking emails and do a bit more work
10:00 off to bed to start the whole routine over again!

During school it includes me riding with him and his buddy to and from school, and the morning workouts are done AFTER he heads to school. But it's not as warm then, so I can actually train at a normal hour!!