Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Freewheeling => Topic started by: Blodwyn Pig on 11 December, 2018, 06:09:44 pm
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Currently commuting 3 / 4 days a week, at between 40-50 km each day, depending on how I feel. I Take the Landrover maybe once a week / 2 weeks, to get building materials. Seems easy, and not really tiring, mostly quiet lanes, canal path. How far do you commute?
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Since moving office, I'm doing between 30 and 40k ( depending on the route I take ) commuting pretty much every day.
A bit of a change from my previous commute of 60k each way with a HBFO hill in the middle, which I only aspired to do twice a week, and didn't often manage that.
I also do between 20 and 30k each lunchtime, usually with a faster group.
Except in the last few weeks I've been doing a 7k run through the woods on alternate lunchtimes.
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about 45 yards, bedroom to living room to kitchen to office.
Depends how many laps I do for extra coffee
Or it could be several thousand miles
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Just under 6 miles each way. Every working day bar 3 so far this year, I think.
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~30 miles per day (round trip).
Recently, having scored free travel on TfL, on account of being from the 16th century, has made cycling a bit questionable when the weather is shite inclement.
ETA - Of my ~15 miles (one way) around 8 miles is traffic-lite / traffic free. Which for London (or any other big city) I think isn't too bad.
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15km each way on the most convenient / least rainy day of the week. Also try to cycle to site visits when it's practical.
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Only in the office two days a week.
Cycle in, train home after 5-a-side and pub.
Run in (or train if too hungover), Cycle home.
11.5km so it's 23km cycling a week and 11.5km running a week (when I'm not lazy and take the train).
Cycling fitness is certainly a long way down from when I used to do 11.5km * 2 * 5 = 115km / week.
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The longest regular commute I did was a few years ago, from home in East London (near Ilford) to West London (by Heathrow), about 45 - 50Km each way, about 3 - 4 days a week. These days? 0. And my waistline shows it. Go on, ask me how many traffic lights. Guess. I counted one day.
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I used to do about 30 miles each way. On the rare occasions I need to go to the office these days, I just drive. (No direct trains or buses - otherwise I'd do that). The problem I found was that although I loved the morning commute, at the end of a long, boring day at the office dealing with wankers, I just wanted to get home and I never enjoyed the ride back. In fact it got so bad that I started to associate cycling with working for arseholes, so when it came to the weekend I just didn't want to go out on the bike. So I packed in the commuting game, then I was able to enjoy evening and weekend rides much more....
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11 miles each way either four or five times a week all year round. About 70 sets of lights on the route.
It does mean I don't have a great appetite for cycling at weekends.
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So far this year 35 miles daily over 192 commuting days.(Taking direct routes would be 17 mpd).
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11 miles each way either four or five times a week all year round. About 70 sets of lights on the route.
It does mean I don't have a great appetite for cycling at weekends.
Funny, that.....
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At least 20km each way, 5 days a week (unless I get lazy). The direct route is around 15-16km, but not as pleasant as my longer route. Sometimes I extend one leg by up to 10km. No idea how many traffic lights, but it's fewer than it used to be thanks to CS2&3.
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Did a typical commute today: 43.6km, 158 traffic lights. On the way in, 93 lights in 22.5km, on the way home, 65 lights in 21.1km.
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Currently 10 miles each way, every day. When it's light in the evening it's 12.5 miles each way.
The silver shopper is holding its own and I'm enjoying it.
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11 miles each way either four or five times a week all year round. About 70 sets of lights on the route.
It does mean I don't have a great appetite for cycling at weekends.
And, whilst I know this next bit doesn't belong here, I thought it worthy of note that my new bike (in 2008) clicked through 25,000 miles this year, and that's on the original, untouched 105 hubs, which are still as smooth as butter. Well, until yesterday, when the freehub was making so much noise I had to swap the wheel.
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Currently 10 miles each way, every day. When it's light in the evening it's 12.5 miles each way.
The silver shopper is holding its own and I'm enjoying it.
Did we ever get to see a picture of it?
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Originally 30 miles per day 5 days a week.
Then dropped to a 4 day week and did 30-35 miles per day.
Went part time 4 years ago -> 35 mpd 3 days a week.
Now retired as of 3 months ago and have substituted about 100-120 miles per week leisure riding in the Peaks for the commute.... :)
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18km each way 5 days a week. Like others I find it affects my weekend cycling mojo and there can be a negative association, I've gone someway to fixing the latter by not riding the best bike much for commuting. I
know hope the mojo will come back in the spring, it usually does, before dropping off in the summer when I just feel sluggish. TL's - 15 in and 16 home which is pretty good for a commute into the centre of the city.
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It's 22km to the stinkier site, if the bridge is running, 28km if it's not and 32km if I get to it before finding it's not running.
It's also a net descent of more than 150m which means the return journey is a rarity.
16km (18; 20) to the less stinky site, but just as much descent.
I've got a dual carriageway to negotiate on the return that now gives me panic attacks, so I very very rarely make it home entirely under my own steam. It's usually train and then Mr Smith assist, occasionally just Mr Smith assist and even more occasionally a hike-a-bike along the bridleways and footpaths.
I've never had a full house of 10. My job requires too much energy. The commute home isn't zen enough for me to clear work out of my head on the way home, it's just an added stressor. It's just too urban, I suppose. Traffic lights? 6 sets? more if I have to use the Newport Bridge.
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7.5km each way, give or take. I've been trying to put a training ride in after work, so the ride home is often upto 50k. I'd like to get to the point where I can do 100km after work. It's mostly a question of the amount of time 100km takes...
On windy days I also tow 1 or 2 of my colleagues for some of the ride home (one holding each backpack strap), it's a good work out...
J
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Previous commute was 14km with 126m of climb and 74m of descent pleasantly taking in the bridgehead villages followed by the riverside esplanade before climbing A+E brae into the Bus turning circle at the hospital, would try to do it 2 or 3 times a week. A solitary puffin crossing on route.
Moved to another office, 10km, 135m of climb and 63m of descent, pleasant bridgehead village bimble still present but then it's straight up one of the busiest roads in town with 8 sets of traffic lights of various types on route. Think I did it 4 or 5 times before I decided it wasn't worth it.
I was one of the few happy with the idea of moving to a newer building with better facilities in the hospital grounds because the cycle would actually be enjoyable.
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No regular commute these days, alas; back in Cambridge I was doing 10-12km a day into work and back, plus whatever trips from work into town for errands etc. Occasionally I'd take the tourer into work rather than the Dutch bike and would do a long loop (30-40km) home.
When we moved, my switch to freelance WFH meant I didn't have a regular commute any more, but what with playgroups, nursery drop-offs, and general errands, I was doing between 100 and 150km a week on a bakfiets, which was good training...
These days I do maybe 20km a week utility cycling, but the vast majority of my distance is leisure riding. I'm hoping that if and when I get another FT job it will be (possibly train-assisted) cyclo-commute-friendly. Depending on location that might be an excuse to build a towpath-oriented utility bike (old rigid MTB with rack and guards?), as I don't really fancy dealing with the moton-infested main roads of the West Mids, especially in rush hour.
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37 miles each way per day. But most of that is by train with a Brompton ;D
I generally ride 6-10 miles a day of it, total. But occasionally (mostly when there's more light), I ride all the way home, just for the fun of it. Yes, on the Brompton, because mostly I don't decide till it's nearly time to go home.
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Zero miles as now long retired and haven't even slung my ass over the top tube since August. Many years ago I did 43k each way every day for years and got very fit but also very tired and wondered why I could not win many races. Gave up when I moved to take up a life of debauchery which was also very timely as the road was upgraded to almost motorway status making it quite unpleasant. There was a climb at the end of the morning ride which I used on the way home to look for trucks with a registration local to my destination so I could latch on for a motor paced fast ride home.
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About 1.2km in total... hard to complain but I wish it were a bit further, so at least I had an excuse to ride!
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I've been in the habit of driving to the vicinity of the toll bridge (Severn) and cycling from there, somewhere about 11 miles each way into the Bristol outskirts on mostly low traffic roads. 5 days a week = 5000 miles this year. There's a clump of traffic lights near my office (3x) apart from that its rural :-)
Now the tolls have gone I might change my cycling habits. It's only another 5 miles to my house, up a big hill on an unlit narrow lane. It just doesn't seem appealing on a December evening but it's a must do in summer when I get to leave the car on the drive for weeks on end.
Very few other rides this year though. One audax in January, a few other 50 milers. I quite lost my mojo until mid Autumn and now I want to sign up for all the big rides next summer. Dragon Ride anyone?
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takes out tape measure and concludes
77cm - distance from bed to desk.
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About 4 miles / 6.5 Km each way (cycling), with quite a long downhill going into work, uphill coming back. Enough to wake up the body in the morning.
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It's about 15 miles each way, but I rarely get to ride it these days due to school run requirements. She's almost old enough to make her own way to school - if I'm still working at my current place by then I'll probably do 3 or 4 days on the bike.
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Mainly work at home but a daily 10/15km loop to the gym is a great way to warm up the body first thing. We endeavour to do a weekly farm shop by bike for groceries too thats around 20km runs trip.
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A mile each way - not worth getting the bike out for.
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so, is the consensus that a weekly commute, knocks some of the enthusiasm out of folks, for weekend riding as well?
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I don't think so. It appears from experience I'm more likely to go for a ride when I'm commuting. That doesn't hold true when I was doing a long commute, but up to 15 miles each way (or some arbitrary number around there) is no different from walking to the shops. and keeps your fitness so you can ride where you like when you like.
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I do think so.
If I want to ride fast or long at the weekend I'll ride less through the week.
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so, is the consensus that a weekly commute, knocks some of the enthusiasm out of folks, for weekend riding as well?
Not commuting enough means I don't enjoy weekend cycling enough as I'm too unfit and it's just a slog, so I end up doing less weekend cycling.
Commuting too much meant I was often too knackered for weekend cycling.
So there's definitely a large middle ground that's good for both.
Of course, this shifts over time. When I was regularly doing Audaxes (i.e. a 200 or more at least once a month) then the commuting miles were relatively meaningless (since they only ever added up to ~120km or so).
Now I don't really do Audaxes I'm tired at the weekend with anything more than 50km commuting during the week!
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18km into work and 19km home via a slightly different route and extended to 36k if I fancy taking the scenic route. Working hard using commute to rebuild endurance ability after serious back injury in 2017, so still finding it quite a challenge (for back rather than legs) if I try to do more than 4 days/week.
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Mine had been a 13 mile round trip, which I ended up doing daily for the last 15 years.
However, since moving to the south coast after taking early retirement and now working on a new business venture, my current commute is about 3½ miles in total. And now completely flat. And only about 3 days a week.
If things pan out regarding premises, my commute will get even shorter to around 2 miles overall.
I'm not much of a cyclist anymore!
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I have choices ;D
23km shortest route in
4km using nearest station to home
8km next nearest
12km next nearest
Any variations of above depending on time of day I start and finish.