I"m zeroing in on a workable time to get things started.

Le Sueur, "St. Gervaise" 1652

The 5:00 AM wakeup is working.  It's the start-time for Matins and Lauds that's in flux.  If I start at 5:50 AM  I'd be done, on average by 6:50 AM.  Prime then would start at 7:20 AM and I'd be on time to make it to school for the 7:40 AM prayer.  Right?  No.  Why?  I'm rushing the recitation of the hours.  Literally saying the words about as fast as I can, intelligibly.  This is death, as I've noted earlier.  I need more time.  Would five minutes help?  Let's start with that and see.  Even if it's not a full five minutes.  What if I open the Church at 5:45 AM?  How does that sound?  Still not a ton of time.  And for longer offices, not much difference.

Right now I've been starting M/L 55 minutes after wakeup.  This has got to shrink.  I've been getting into the kitchen more than 30 minutes and sometimes more than 35 minutes after wakeup.  That's gotta shrink.  Coffee and headlines have taken more than ten minutes and sometimes almost twenty.  Not much to shrink there, except that I can improve the mindset that it's a brief cup of coffee and a quick glance at headlines.  I could skip it altogether.  But for now I'd rather not.  I could also front-load the coffee/headlines to right at wakeup.  That may make it take longer, but it may make showering and such go quicker.  I'm intrigued there.

I'd like to aim for opening the church at 5:40 AM.  Of course a sure-fire way of nailing this would be to publish it in the bulletin or to announce it on Sundays.  That's not just the nuclear option.  It's also a goal.  To publish the times when the church is regularly opened for prayer.  That's not unreasonable.