what's a typical day like for you??

[surgtech1956]

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?

[kelownagirl]

Work (teacher), clean house (not often), spend time with son, sit out on deck and eat and drink wine with new dh, ride my bike every day, and natch, surf. A lot. No tv at all but lots of screen time none-the-less.

So how do you spend your time?

[makbike]

August - May : Get up early, read forums, teach, ride after work, spend time with my animals, take care of chores. Read until I fall asleep (usually only takes a page or two).

June & July: RELAX, ride, RELAX, ride some more! Read without falling asleep after a page or two, cross stitch, spend time with my animals, RELAX, visit family, RELAX!!!!!!

[LBTC]

5:00 wake up and do yoga in the sun room for a 1/2 hour
then get the "kids" taken care of - the dogs, the cat, the DH - and have my breakfast, meds and supplements
7:10 leave for work if I'm riding, every other day; or 7:20 get a ride to work with DH
Work too hard, try to remember what my symptoms are that day to report to my various health care professionals, worry about what to eat for snacks and dinner
4:30 leave work by bike or get a ride with DH
rest for an hour or so - yes, the tv is usually on then
eat and take meds
figure out some crazy dinner that fits my diet but will still make DH happy and give us leftovers for lunch the next day
in good weather, have that nice dinner in the gazebo
do a load of laundry or two - if I have energy
tidy up the kitchen - if I have energy
shower & get my stuff ready to go to work the next day - lunch etc.
rest some more
bed between 10 and 11
usually a tv show or two while resting, but not every night
read until I fall asleep, usually a page at most.
middle of the night, up at least once, sometimes because the dogs woke me

I know, very exciting.not

It's only temporary. One day I'll know the right balance of food, drugs and exercise and then I'll ride almost every day, and do real rides, too!

Next?
~T~

[mimitabby]

get up around 530am
eat dress, etc.
ride to work or drive
work from 630 to 3pm with a break for the stairs 12 minutes and another break
to walk a mile.
ride or drive to gym 3x a week then ride or drive home, make dinner
collapse and mess around on computer.
repeat.
Cat care in there, but they just don't take that much time.

[Laterider21958]

Wake up early - just before 6 a.m. , but don't use the early hours wisely (watch morning TV while breakfasting etc.) Feed the animals - 1 dog and 3 cats and put them out for the day. Head off to work just after 8 a.m (after doing lunches for myself and hb). Work at a pre-school until just after 2 p.m. (if I leave on time) and head off home. Reduced my hours this year from full-time but seem to go on the net after work, instead of doing leadlighting, sewing or gardening! Need to lift my game there. Try to ride to work, but when the weather is not good, or if I have to do large shop etc. I weaken and drive. After cooking and consuming the evening meal I watch the dreaded TV. Love Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Something About Brian and Boston Legal. Oh, I do watch the more intellectual programs too, only if they don't clash with the previous mentioned ones!

On the weekend I ride to the bakery for bread rolls and the newspaper (this is instead of getting the latter delivered), and then on for a more lengthy scenic ride home. This is followed by gardening and the usual necessary housework.

Interested in recycling and renewable energy. Have solar hot water and looking into installing solar power in the near future.

[iFKA]

I work 3 days per week (I'm a student) so half week is buisy and half is great

...my typical buisy day

leave the home at 7am and I go to work... at 6 pm I'm back from work and I eat something quickly and go cycling with my friend. We ride till 8pm and than I play with my dog/clean the house/make the supper till 10pm when my darling comes home frome his afternoon shift and we spend some time together ant than go to sleep.

...my typical casual day

I wake up at 8am and than I learn for about 2 hour, and after that I do housechores (is it spelled like that ) and after that I'm "playing" in the garden with my flowers and wegetables, and that relaxes me very much. Than I cook something delicious for my darling who works mornigshift so he's back at 5pm and than we enjoy the rest of the day mainly together.

I watch tv only after 8pm when I lay back with my darling after supper and I'm too tired to do anything else. We mainly watch National geografic dokumentaries and we go to sleep at 11pm

[iFKA]

Love Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Something About Brian and Boston Legal. Oh, I do watch the more intellectual programs too, only if they don't clash with the previous mentioned ones!

We don't have the last two you mentioned but the rest I enjoy also. And I'd like to add Dr House - I adore him

[RoadRaven]

This is an interesting thread...

For the past couple of months...

Week-days:

5:45am get up
On spin bike for 30-40mins
Make school lunches, hang up washing, wash pots from last nights dinner, surf TE if time, wake kids up

8am - Leave house
Drop two boys at highschool
Drop bikes at grandparents for boys to bike home

8:45 - park car at work and say have a good day to son 3 who is doing a course at the tertiary institute I work at.

9am
Teach, visit students, mark assignments etc etc

5pm
Pick up boys school bags, run any errands in town like groceries

6/6:30 arrive home
Help finish cooking dinner, eat, cuddle with my youngest son, surf the net

8:30ish watch movie or work on my assignment (I am completing a post-graduate qual)

10:30-11, bath and bed.

Weekends

Usually up around 7am, surf the net

Saturday racing at 2pm
Sunday long recovery ride around 2 hours mid-dayish

Weekends are spent catching up with washing, tidying house, doing my study, helping on the farm, playing Age of Empires, doing some baking if possible. I try not to bring work home...

[crazycanuck]

During the week my schedule is like this:

415am out of bed (I work at 630 tues,wed, fri), do the toilet stop, wash my face, get my cycling clothing on and out the door by 5am. Get to work, shower & have brekkie. I finish work at 3pm & i'm on my bike doing some sort of long ride by about 330pm(to cure the boredom from doing a pointless & useless job. Yes, i'm the process of finding a new one) Get home about 630pm and play with Yukon, make dinner (that's if it was Ian's turn the previous night) and then wander on the computer or read a book.

Monday & Thursday-up at the same time but this time I leave at 5am to drive to the pool for our group swimming session. It's a 1/2hr drive from my house if yóu're wondering..

I'm normally in bed by about 830pm.

Weekends-they're now saved for moutain biking.

C

[7rider]

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?

Up at 6 or 6:30, depending on what the plan is and how many times I feel compelled to hit the "snooze" button.
Make coffee. Most important task of the morning!
Feed and socialize with da monsters (morning salad for the bunnies).
Bike to work, or surf the 'net 'til it's time to get cleaned and dressed if I'm not riding that day.
Put out fires at work all day. Write stupid reports and send lots of emails in my never ending duties to perfect herding cats. I loooove my job!
Come home. Feed da monsters again (they are a hungry horde).
Make dinner, (assorted activities - read, surf the net, outside to pull weeds, clean the house, whatever), play with the beasties (oh, and one more salad for them) until bed.

Such an exciting life I lead!!!

Weekends are better - biking, kayaking, and working in the yard.

[singletrackmind]

Up at 5:20...me time until the kid wakes up around 6:30. News, internet, read, garden....sometimes up at 4:30 to fit in a bike ride before hubby leaves the house @ 6.....

Kid gets up, tv goes off and stays off. We play, hike, bike, geocache, visit the playground or zoo or butterfly house or botanical garden or science center or art museum, or library, or any of a number of free cultural and entertaining opportunities, visit great grandma, grampa, do whatever chores need to be done, animal, yard, gardens, house, food, work on truck, shopping (blech), mow the neighbor's yard if it needs it, if I have the step-kids entertain them too.

Hubby gets home, we check the veggie garden, do a little weeding there, go for walk or bike, feed the masses, play with kid, get kid ready and in bed, watch a little tv with hubby, computer, read, shower, bed around 10-11 pm.

Weekends are more of the same, but with a big bike ride or trail maintenance and a hike with the husband.

It varies according to who is home and who isn't. My kid and I are the constant and he's the star of the show.

[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 .