Commuting - Comute Distance

How far is your commute round trip? I could have worded the poll a little bit better. If you ride 12 miles round trip obviously 5 miles is less as well but you would pick 15 or less because you ride more than 5. You get the picture. :p

I do a mixed mode commute though. I voted for 5-15miles, although if I rode the whole way it would be over 15, just barely.

Technically mine is only 2.5 round trip, but I tack on an extra chunk of milage in the mornings. Right now I'm going about 10 miles total, but plan to bump it up as I get faster to keep the time about the same. I voted for 15 or less.

Only one person over 35?

You should've had one that said 100 miles. I'd like to see the person who's doing a century a day.
Well technically if you're a real avid rider and you average 25mph on a nice flat road and ride 2 hours in each way...

I was in a quandry, my round trip is only 8 miles but I generally ride home for lunch which gives me two 8 mile round trips for a total of 16 miles. Sometimes there is a meeting, or my work team has a luncheon or training meeting & then I have to drive. Also when the weather gets really bad I sometimes drive to a 1/2 way spot & ride from there. I voted for 15 miles or less as a fair average. Don

The intervals for the poll are screwed. Each one overlaps the one before it. I slap you Ranger.

Only one person over 35?

I did <25 but there have been days that I streched ny ride to 35 or more but this is not on a regular bases.

Opps , I voted wrong! I though it was for one way! I voted for 25 or less when I should have go with 35 or less ( 16 to work , 18 home ) but every so often I make my Commute a 100K ride ( did an 85 mile round tripper 3 weeks ago )

The intervals for the poll are screwed. Each one overlaps the one before it. I slap you Ranger.


I could have worded the poll a little bit better. If you ride 12 miles round trip obviously 5 miles is less as well but you would pick 15 or less because you ride more than 5. You get the picture.

Like i said... ;)

My commute is 36 miles round trip. Part of my route is along the Pacific Ocean, which is great. My normal commute time one-way is 70 minutes. My best one-way time ever was 56 minutes, when I was hammering, hit most of the lights, and had a slight tailwind.
Tom

My commute is 36 miles round trip. Part of my route is along the Pacific Ocean, which is great. My normal commute time one-way is 70 minutes. My best one-way time ever was 56 minutes, when I was hammering, hit most of the lights, and had a slight tailwind.
Tom


Good god, that's cool. Wish I had the clean air to breathe that you do! I've got tail pipes the whole way. [cough :eek: cough]

Mine is a little over 35 miles. Best time is 2 hours roundtrip. 57 minutes in, 1:03 home. Have also done 54 in, 66 home. It is about 12 minutes on a road, 40 minutes on a bike trail, and about 5 minutes through the city. Going home is harder with more uphill, a headwind stretch, and a long light that is hard to catch or break. And then there is the nighttime and winter. That slows the turn home even more. Last night was 80 minutes. I dread the first snowfall becuase they don't plow the trail and I'm forced onto the road for about the first 7 miles, with more hills.

I've been doing it four days a week for the last two work weeks. With an infant at home now and cold weather coming on, I plan on three/week for the next month or so, hopefully 2/week through December and January.

Here's a question. My current commute is short. Real short. I could walk if I really wanted too. Has anyone ever decided to move a bit farther away from their work becuase their commute was too short? I rent and I'm very tempted to do this.

my commute is short too. about 4.8 kms round trip (that would be about 3 miles or so).
nobody says you have to ride straight home. if you want to commute 10 or 20 miles, i'm sure you can find a more indirect route home. that's much easier than moving.

around 20 miles round trip......

My short path is seven miles, with two or three steep hills. My long path is about eight and a half miles, with a few hills but none as bad as those on the "short" path.

I do about 45 miles RT. All but about three miles is trail. Without a doubt, the best part of my day.

Has anyone ever decided to move a bit farther away from their work becuase their commute was too short? I rent and I'm very tempted to do this.


I did. Moved from a place 3 miles from work to one that is 7 miles away. I cheated though. The 3 mile route ended with a killer 1 mile long hill, plus at the beginning of that route I would have had to make a near-impossible left turn into heavy traffic.

My current residence (better digs by far :) ), is 1/2 mile from a bike path which connects to a 40 mph road into work with a middle turn lane the whole way.

Here's a question. My current commute is short. Real short. I could walk if I really wanted too. Has anyone ever decided to move a bit farther away from their work becuase their commute was too short? I rent and I'm very tempted to do this.

my commute is 1.5 miles, I'm looking to buy a home in an area that will be about 10miles. My wife thinks I should get a car when we move, since 10 miles is a much longer ride. I tell her I'd rather get a kick-ass bike. She also doesn't realize that I've been stretching my evening commute to 8-9miles for the last couple of weeks. I won't think about buying a 2nd car (a car for just me) unless the commute is around 15miles. But, i probably wouln't move that far, or I'd make sure I have public transit options.

I just don't have a need or want for cars too much anymore.

I commute about 30 miles round trip, from Stone Mountain to Atlanta, Ga. I really enjoy it and it's a part of my life, now. Sometimes it seems a bit far, but as I said, I enjoy the time on the bike.

Before I moved to this neighborhood, I rode about 2 1/2 miles to a local library, where I locked my bike and caught a bus into town. Almost the entire route on bicycle was on 25 mph neighborhood streets. Then I moved and found myself surrounded by fast-moving, 45 mph. arteries that hemmed me in. For a while, my bike and I caught a lift with my wife so I could hop the train and get off in a downtown neighborhood with slow speed limits.

But the train ride home was packed like a sardine can and it was easier to ride the bike home than squeeze onto the train. Before long, I decided that if I could ride my bike all the way home, I could ride it all the way in, too. So here I am. (Let me add that I rarely ride more than 3 times per week.)

If your commute is short, mid-range, long-range or whatever, it doesn't matter. Just enjoy yourself, ride safely and master your craft.

Doh! Could've read it closer. :( Checked the 25 or less, I'm 18.6 one way. I need to move into the "elite" commuter group. :)

Hello.

I am cycle-obssessed commuter, Italian from original but presently in Tunisia, with average roundtrip of 72km. That makes 45 USA miles.


Ride to work is 1 and 1/2 hour, ride home is less, as being mostly downhill that way. I can take off 20km roundtrip if I go through army base, but I prefer to be alive when I come to work!

8.5 miles one way.
Tomorrow will be the coldest commute of the year, ~35F. Still trying to decide how many layers of what clothing to wear. :o

Although right now I'm doing about 15 miles (roughly about 26-27 KM depending on route) in the Spring that will be almost doubled with a new commute route because of the fact that my campus is moving father away (will become 22KM each way). :D

I know I've become addicted to cycling because I'm actually looking forward to it -- *MEH* .. maybe it's just because they have showers and an actual bike locker in the garage... :D

Oops, I accidentally hit 25 miles or less. I should have read the top bar. I'm too much of a slug to get up at 3:30 that much to cycle commute, but I'll be doing it much more, especially with the cost of gas. I have a 23.5 mile commute one way. The ride home has a headwind for about 19 of those miles. PLus, in between, I walk a few miles lugging mail on my arm and shoulder, so sometimes when I ride it feels like I've done 80-100 miles. I'll probably only be a fair weather commuter, though. Riding in the rain isn't as much fun when you have to walk around in it all day for work.

Here's a question. My current commute is short. Real short. I could walk if I really wanted too. Has anyone ever decided to move a bit farther away from their work becuase their commute was too short? I rent and I'm very tempted to do this.

I would decide that question based on living, not cycling conditions. You can always find another time to ride. Walking to work on a beautiful day is not that bad an experience.

I commute about 30 miles round trip, from Stone Mountain to Atlanta, Ga. I really enjoy it and it's a part of my life, now. Sometimes it seems a bit far, but as I said, I enjoy the time on the bike.

Before I moved to this neighborhood, I rode about 2 1/2 miles to a local library, where I locked my bike and caught a bus into town. Almost the entire route on bicycle was on 25 mph neighborhood streets. Then I moved and found myself surrounded by fast-moving, 45 mph. arteries that hemmed me in. For a while, my bike and I caught a lift with my wife so I could hop the train and get off in a downtown neighborhood with slow speed limits.

But the train ride home was packed like a sardine can and it was easier to ride the bike home than squeeze onto the train. Before long, I decided that if I could ride my bike all the way home, I could ride it all the way in, too. So here I am. (Let me add that I rarely ride more than 3 times per week.)

If your commute is short, mid-range, long-range or whatever, it doesn't matter. Just enjoy yourself, ride safely and master your craft.

Should we guess which commute days you love the most?

Here's a question. My current commute is short. Real short. I could walk if I really wanted too. Has anyone ever decided to move a bit farther away from their work becuase their commute was too short? I rent and I'm very tempted to do this.

this actually figured into the equation when my wife and I were looking for a place to live. i didn't want it too close, yet, I wanted it just far enough to do everyday. So I have a trip that's 16 miles roundtrip. unfortunately I voted wrong on the poll (and i don't even live in florida ;) ) so there should be one less vote for <15 miles, one vote more for <25.

safe riding!