Originally Posted by macteacher

Im trying to commute every day and for the life of me....I just can't. Heck, im lucky if I can get 1 day a week in...and im just at a loss as how people do it on a regular basis.

For those of you who depend on your bikes, what happens when you've been up all night working on a project? You only get 3 hours of sleep...how do you get up in the am to ride 30-60 minutes?

What about when you get sick? You can't take every day off...eventually you'll have to stroll in to work ..possibly nursing a cough....how do you ride in?

What about if you've just had a rough couple of days and a bout of insomnia strolls into your life...then what?

What about just sheer exhaustion?

I mean the list goes on, of things that happen to us that can make it difficult to get up every day. Many of you will say, well, I'll take a few days off....or the wife will drive me...but I guess im directing this to those of you who depend on your bike for work. You have no wife, brother, sister, dad, mom, roomate, neighbour to give you a lift.

I just end up taking my car..but what about those who have no car? or public transport takes hours to get to work. I wish I could ride in everyday but the reality is I can't.

Thoughts?

**edit** I forgot to add weather problems...such as high winds, thunderstorms...that's what kept me off my bike today..the possibility of thunderstorms that never materialized.

Originally Posted by Fizzaly

I'm a car free fellow insomniac, I quite a while ago went to the doctor to get help with the sleep, as far as biking goes, I ride 7 days a week generally at least 10 miles a day, yeah sometimes it sucks, but I think about it this way it could be a lot worse. I don't have any options for getting to work as I have to be at work before the buses are really running ( I could take one and be 15mins late) so basically I just buck up and ride, have I rode sick-yup, have I rode injured-yup, there really isn't any condition I haven't rode in, with, on. The longer you do it the easier it gets.