what's a typical day like for you??

[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.

[Jenn]

What's a typical day like for you? Do you watch alot of TV, read, workout, socialize, busy with a family, or maybe a workaholic? What are your interests - besides cycling?

Well, up at 5AM on spin bike for an hour,hour and a half. Cool down, then the "munchkin" wakes up. From then on it's chasing her, changing diapers, changing diapers, reading, singing, playing, oh, did I say changing diapers, laundry, cooking, cleaning. Then, at about 5PM off to school. I unfortunately don't get the luxury of riding outside during the week... Or, lunch breaks, coffee breaks...going from working outside the home to being AT home has been tough, still is, I'm a people person, at least I get some adult interaction when in class.
However, I know that I'm doing the best thing for my daughter and her future, even if I feel like mine is in SLOW MOTION even trying to finish my RN.

Surgtech, what is your day like???

[LadyinWhite]

Sept - May : Teach a steady schedule plus freelance workshops.
June: Freelance workshops as available
July/August: As little as possible beyond chores and serving as car service for busy busy teenage children who have jobs, summer camps etc.

6:00 Up and going - supervising everyone's departure in a timely fashion

7:30-2pm surf a little, emails & prep for the day's classes/workshops as needed, bask in the pleasure of morning coffee, check the weather, determine if I have the time (chores and job permitting) and weather to ride that day. Work if working, ride if time permits, chores/shopping/laundry/blah blah blah life of the middle class suburban wife.

2:30 pm begin after school rituals: extra curricular activity transportation to and from
6:00 Attend son's baseball games as needed / or begin fixing dinner if home for the evening
8:00 put on the Yankees game during the season (radio outside if it's nice out) -or- see what's on Tivo with the kids if it's off season
10:00pm lights out in the house
10:30pm lights really out in the house
11:00pm me toteenage daughter: turn the lights out NOW (this only happens occasionally)

[SalsaMTB]

M-F
5:45-7:30am - Get up, let the dogs out, feed dogs, shower, get ready, make breakfast and lunch for myself and DH
7:30-8:00am - Drive to work
8:00-5:30pm - Work
5:30-6:00pm - Drive Home
6:00-6:20pm - Let out dogs, feed dogs, get bike stuff together
6:20-6:30pm - Ride/Drive to store
6:30-7:00pm - Finish getting ready for ride at store (fill water bottles, change, help customers while DH changes, etc)
7:00-9:15pm - Ride, chat after ride
9:15-9:25pm - Ride/Drive Home
9:30-10:00pm - Heat up something for dinner
10:00-10:30 - Watch news, eat dinner
10:30-10:45- Get ready for bed
11:00pm - Bed Time!

On Wednesday, I ride an hour earlier, so my day starts an hour earlier.
I don't ride on Monday, so I'll either have time for chores around the house or help DH at the store.

Stupid work takes up too much time in my day! I can't even imagine what my schedule would be like if I had children.

[Popoki_Nui]

Mondays: up at 0600 with partner Pat. Feed the cats. Pat off to work. I pop online, check email, IM chat with friends in Europe, and surf. 0900: check the HelpLine for the animal rescue society I volunteer for, pick up messages, call them back. This takes between one and four hours depending on the calls. When done, I go into Victoria to check on Ed (the senior gentleman I wrote about elsewhere), make sure he's ok/ shop for him, chat awhile. Home in the mid-afternoon. Do chores, play with the cats, nap.
Tuesdays: Usual online thing, then after doing the HelpLine, free day for Pat and myself. Go shopping, geocaching, day trips/exploring, chores/projects around home, play with the cats, nap.
Wednesdays: Pat at work in the morning. Feed the cats. Usual online rounds Do the HelpLine. Check on Ed. Afternoon, usually chores/projects around home, or a quick bike ride. Nap.
Thursdays: same as Tuesdays.
Fridays: same as Mondays.
Saturdays/Sundays: Pat's days to do her own things. After the usual morning online stuff and HelpLine calls, my days to spend on THE BIKES!
We don't watch much TV especially in Summer. Except for Corrie
Maybe a music DVD or movie occasionally. I love radio, and spend most evenings surfing the airwaves searching for distant stations; Pat reads. Astronomy/photography deep into the evening when the weather allows.

[HappyAnika]

5:30/6 am get up, shower, dress, eat (or swim first, or ride to work first)
8 ish to 5 ish, work (aka spend my days being bored wishing I could be outside riding my bike, or doing anything else productive)
5 ish to 6:30 ish, go for run, or ride home from work, or ride when I get home from work
6:30 ish to 9, play with dogs, talk with DH, go through mail, eat dinner, do laundry, garden, shower, pack a gym bag for the next day (Thursdays I watch Grey's anatomy, but luckily the season is over . . .)
9 pm watch Daily Show
9:30 pm, brush teeth, get ready for bed
9:40 pm read until I fall asleep, which is usually about 9:50 pm.

Weekends are pretty much the same without the 8 to 5 work bit and we actually cook dinner, and/or get together with friends in the evening. (Notice that nowhere did I mention cleaning the house? DH is also triathlon training, so the only "cleaning" we do anymore involves bike maintenance.) We're not big on TV other than the two shows I mentioned, if I have spare time, I'm usually reading.

[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.

[KSH]

What's a typical day like for you? Do you watch alot of TV, read, workout, socialize, busy with a family, or maybe a workaholic? What are your interests - besides cycling?

Well, I'm deep into tri season... so a typical workday for me is as follows:

1) Get up around 7:00 AM.
2) Go to work around 8:30-9:00 AM.
3) Sometimes workout at lunch.
4) Get off work around 5:30-6:00 PM.
5) Go workout. I typically don't do 2 a days, but every couple of weeks I do.
6) Get home around 8-8:30 PM, eat shower and pass out by 11:00 PM. I also chat with my boyfriend on the phone at some point during all of that.

I train 5-7 days a week, so just about every day involves some sort of biking, running or swimming activity.

Pretty dull. Eh?

[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