Originally Posted by
VeloNewbie
Yeah, its been pretty rough. LOL. Sometimes when I get home(after sitting in traffic), I will try to go for a quick ride. But I try to get out on the bike before 8PM. After 8PM, forget it, im beat and ready to hit the bed.
Commute to and from work by bicycle.
Back about 10 years ago, I spent a couple years working up to 60 hours a week, year round, and taking night classes (often with quite a bit of homework) from September to April. And yet I was logging 9000+ km/year.
My commute was 13. 6 km/day 4 days a week (the 5th day I had to take the bus so I could bus to the college immediately after work to take the night classes). That adds up to 54.4 km/week for, say, 40 weeks of the year = 2176 km.
Plus, as soon as the sun shone longer in the evenings, I'd add a little bit extra to about 3 of those commutes ... anywhere from about 8 km to 40 km depending on how I felt.
Plus, I rode a lot on weekends. Metric centuries, centuries, and longer rides most weekends from the end of March to about the end of October.