How far is your commute one way?
05-07-10 | 09:26 AM
#29
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From: Frankfurt am Main, Germany/Arlington, VA
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I live near a 16 mile loop route on MUPs (the Arlington (VA) loop) so my commute is 5 miles going one way or 12 miles if I ride the loop in the other direction.
05-07-10 | 10:13 AM
#33
You gonna eat that?
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From: Fort Worth, Texas Church of Hopeful Uncertainty
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Did you ride this morning? I followed a slightly different route & time; I think I may have seen you (but couldn't catch you!)
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05-07-10 | 10:47 AM
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5 miles in
5.8 home (slightly different route to make it easier to cross the most traffic street with a light)
up to 10 home if I take a route simply to add miles
5.8 home (slightly different route to make it easier to cross the most traffic street with a light)
up to 10 home if I take a route simply to add miles
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05-07-10 | 10:49 AM
#37
Oh Snap, not again...
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From: Cardiff, Ca
05-07-10 | 01:01 PM
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From: Potashville
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4.5k, unless I go swimming. In that case it's an additional 3k past my office to the pool, then 3k back again to get to work.
I always throw in an adventurous couple of miles on the way home....but I take the direct route home for lunch.
05-07-10 | 01:56 PM
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From: Alexandria, VA
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7 miles (11.25 km) door to door according to mapping websites. (I haven't gotten a computer yet, but it's on my acquisition list.) I often stop at the grocery store or run other similar errands on the way home so that adds a nice couple miles here and there, too. I've been known to strecth out the commute artificially as well. A seven mile commute can be a ten-plus mile commute if you know the right roads. 
05-07-10 | 01:58 PM
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From: On the bridge with Picard
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21 miles to work, 19 miles home.
I'm starting a new job in a week that will be 3 miles closer but it's much hillier, so it will probably take me the same amount of time.
I'm starting a new job in a week that will be 3 miles closer but it's much hillier, so it will probably take me the same amount of time.
