• 6:15 alarm. Hit snooze twice
• Wake up a few minutes after second snooze, a few minutes before 6:30 alarm
• Assess painful foot. It hurts worse than it has in the last week or so. Decide to go ahead with ride. I don’t want to bail on my friend. How much worse could it get?
• Brush teeth
• Go downstairs, turn on coffee maker. Carissa had set it up the night before. Grateful. Ignore begging cats so they don’t accidentally get two breakfasts.
• Pour coffee
• Go back upstairs
• Start getting “kitted up”, as we say
  • Socks
  • Foot brace
  • Leg warmers
  • Thermal bibs
  • Chamois creme
  • Merino baselayer
  • Arm warmers
  • Jersey
• Head back downstairs, carrying the rest of my kit
• Fill water bottle
• Realize I forgot to grab my jacket. Go back upstairs for jacket. Head back downstairs.
• Finish kitting up
  • Windproof socks on
  • Shoes on
  • Realize I’m missing one toe warmer. Consider going without, but Carissa is up an pouring her own coffee, so I ask her to look if I’d dropped it between the stairs and the back door. She ends up going all the way upstairs for it. Grateful again.
  • Toe warmers on
  • Jacket on
  • Merino cap on
  • Helmet on
• Open garage door
• Get bike down from wall rack. I almost always make sure the bike is ready to go the night before. I don’t leave time to mess with it in the morning, and that kind of thing is less “fun” in the cold.
• Turn bike computer on
• Turn rear light on brightest flashing setting. The sun has come up. Don’t need the headlight.
• Close garage door
• Open gate
• Start ride on computer
• Gloves on
• Pedal