My commute is 41.2 miles rt w/a 500 ft elevation difference. My street is asphalt(it used to be gravel...'there goes the neighborhood' ) And it's .6 mi to an unmarked entrance to the Natchez Trace Parkway(a 450 mile national park w/a 40 mph speed limit). I portage the bike over the 'stacked wood' fence and ride down a small hill on to the NTP surface. It's asphalt like my street. From there I pass MP 423 after about .1 mi and ride the NTP to the 1st exit @ MP 429. Rolling hills. Turn east on Pinewood Road. About .75 mi to Leiper's Creek Rd. Left about 1.5 miles to Southall Road then right.

Southall is very busy as it's the main rural artery into town. Fortunately it's got a nice, wide shoulder so I can ride the length of it to the right of the fog line. Left onto Carter's Creek Pike. Right on Natchez Street. From Southall Rd. in to work it's moderate/heavy urban traffic w/more rolling hils. The rest of the ride is through town(Franklin, TN...lots of lights and stop signs ) in heavy urban traffic to my work place.

The commute home is the reverse w/a 500 ft climb on the 6 miles of the NTP. It takes me just about as long to do those last six miles as the rest of the commute because of 4 moderate climbs. There're deceptive. I thought they were 2/3%. Turns out they're 6-8% when I tracked each one separate on Map My Ride. My fg commuter is 79.1 GI(48x16t)so those hills are tough...but worth it.

All in all it's a relatively unencumbered, pleasant commute w/just enough urban rat-race traffic in town to keep my skills sharp.