Originally Posted by
pdlamb
I think that would be a good one-way daily commute. So if your wife has a car, and presumably you have a car, have you considered driving your car to work with the bike on Monday, riding the bike home, then riding in to work Tuesday and drive the car home (with or without the bike, depending on parking security)? You could get two round trip commutes in every week, and a recovery day on Wednesday.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to read my post and offer suggestions. I really hadn't worked out a strategy at all and didn't give this endeavor more than 5 minutes planning. Fact of the matter is, over Memorial Day weekend I watched my son run a half marathon while my son-in-law did the full marathon in the TC Bayshore Marathon. I looked at the 60-64 yo results and saw that an 8-1/2 min/mi pace could get you in the top ten and said to myself, I could do that by next year. Of course, just because I could do that 12 years ago I probably should still be able to do it now, right? Mind you, I get gassed taking the stairs up to my third-floor office.
So, I said to myself, better start riding my bike to work. Now I work from home on Mondays and Fridays so that leaves me with TU-WED-THUR to ride. I have had a chance to think about this while I have been riding and I figure that given the distance and my age, I definitely need a recovery period. So I am probably limited to a round trip at most two days a week. I'm going to start off by riding home on TU-THUR and hopefully after about a month of that, I'll try riding home on TU and doing a round trip on THUR. We'll see how it goes from there.
BTW - My first trip home took me 2 hours and twenty minutes of moving down. I cut that down to 2 hours and 12 minutes of moving time on Thursday and should easily be able to get that down under 2 hours by the 4th.
Here's a post from me back in the day: (where have all the commuters gone?)
2013 Commuting Mileage Thread - End of Year
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