I'm spoiled with a commute that is barely over 3 miles. I sometimes extend it to the double digits but I don't have too. It can get me into trouble, since I count on about 15 minutes. So I tell my wife, sure I'll be home by 515 so you can do yoga - and I will walk out of the building and see it is one of those afternoons where it is howling out of the north and I had to suck it up and make the time anyway. I get home just a tad this side of a heart attack.

It is a bit of a shame about the commute turning your ride into work, I find my recreational rides to small towns near the Wabash river valley are really very nice.