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In time (NOT distance)

What is your job?

How often do you do it?


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:30 pm
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30 mins,
work in a lab,
every day


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:34 pm
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25-35 mins

Electronics Buyer

Every Day


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:34 pm
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Every day I work as a nurse. Various sites - rarely more than 1/2 hr away these days


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:35 pm
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Anywhere from 40min to 2hrs depending on weather/how much fun i want on the way home.
Chef at Leeds uni
5 days a week


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:35 pm
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45 minutes

Primary school teacher

once, ever 🙂 But after last Friday proved it is quite possible once sorted out the plan is initially twice a week. See what happens once that is happening.


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:36 pm
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50 mins - 2 hrs each way ( depending on if its my usual job or if i'm acting as a relief manager)
5-6 days a week
hotel and restaurant manager


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:38 pm
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12 minutes on the way, 20 on the way back.
Practice director
Occasionally - twice this week.


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:40 pm
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Hour (each way, 50% xc)

Assistant Manager (retail)

1-3 times a week (Weather dependent I'm afraid) .. though have done the odd whole week when I've decided to 'man up' but I'm dead at the end of it.


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:40 pm
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Tracker - i too am a teacher (secondary school and Assistant head of year) - have to be in work by 8 and the "commute" would be 1 hr 10 ish. Just not sure if its manageable on top of a 8-9hr stint on my feet 🙁


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:41 pm
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35 minutes each way

Nurse

4 days a week usually


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:42 pm
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40 minutes
CNC machine setter
1 day a week but aiming for twice a week now the days are getting longer


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:52 pm
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12 minutes on a Sunday when there is no traffic... too scary with so many blind drivers on the road during a normal rush hour weekday.

Retail shop


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:54 pm
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Approx 3mins...

Joiner....

5 days.


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:54 pm
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It's not unknown for me to commute and do a 14hr hr shift, you normally enjoy the ride home, it's the getting back up at 5.30 in the morning that's a killer! If so ride 3 times, you'll feel the benefit.


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:54 pm
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40 minutes or so depending on the wind and how deep the mud is. Actually usually the longest when the weathers nice and I take a few detours.

AV Technician

Everyday I'm in the office all year round. I'll be working in Berlin Munich and Hong Kong in the next month so they are all probably a bit far for the bike.


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:55 pm
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12 mins downhill in the morning, 15 mins uphill to get home
Highways Engineer
4 or 5 days a week depending on beer opportunities / bad rain


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:57 pm
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1 hour each way
maintenance Engineer
4 - 5 days a week


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 10:59 pm
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30 40 mins at least depends on route every day sheet metal worker amongst other things see 7-14 6 speed cassette thread


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:01 pm
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It's going to be some 45-60 mins each way, weekends only (main roads and blind drivers make it difficult on weekdays). On a road fixie 😉


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:02 pm
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20 mins each way (unless I take the scenic route home 😛 )
Pre-school assistant
4 days


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:02 pm
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30 minutes eachway
trade counter manager
5 days 1 week
6 days the next


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:04 pm
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20mins, 4.5 miles

marine electrican

5 days a week. this is my 5th week riding in still going strong! and more money less fuel!


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:06 pm
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30 mins
graphic designer/marketing guru
m-f dude


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:07 pm
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35 Mins 8 miles
Country Manager
5 days mostly


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:07 pm
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<10mins by most direct route but usually take a 30 - 45 min off road loop in order to get my head straight before commencing battle for the day.

Health Care Scientist (.....is the latest label 🙄 )

Every day, unless there is a straight after work beer function - in that case I walk (30 mins).


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:10 pm
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25 minutes there and about an hour back as I normally take a different route home...


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:13 pm
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50 mins each way, 39/15 fixed
4 times a week
Systems Engineer
out at 7am
leave work at 6pm
pretty tired by Thursday, but i see commuting (by car) as dead time. So riding kills two birds with one stone (training and commuting).


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:16 pm
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20-25m
lawyer
most days


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:17 pm
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1/2 hr each way
That'd be telling
EVERY day (missed three days during the bad snow)
Start and finish at different times - shifts (7a/3p, 2p/12p, 9p/7a)


 
Posted : 11/02/2010 11:23 pm
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just under an hour each way varies 2-4 times a week


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 12:06 am
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if I'm working in Newcastle, about 9 hours

never.

if I'm working in Blackpool, about 3 hours.

never.


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 12:17 am
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depending on the route between 2 and 3.5 hours a day. 4 or 5 days a week.

Another of the STW IT bods.


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 8:11 am
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7.42 miles 🙂 about 25 mins each way
I'm a weighbridge clerk in a quarry
I try and do it 3 times a week, with one day off, and the other day I go for an evening ride. Rather weather dependant though, I don't like getting to work soaked to the skin at 7am, sorry.
In the summer, Fridays is usually a longer offroad ride home though.


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 8:19 am
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About 12 minutes at a lesiurly pace.
Manitenance engineer
50% of the time, I.e. when I dont need the car to take any "foreigners" into work.


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 8:31 am
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Untill a recent change of jobs it used to 25miles there and 25 back, up and down the the Struggle ( spelling ?)
Now in the company car so now have to fit training in at other times.


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 8:34 am
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1 hour 15 ish each way, on top of a 12 hour shift, about 3 times a week. So leave the house @ 5AM, back home for 8:30PM


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 9:07 am
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depends which way I go. ten minutes the quick way and an hour or so for the long way and various other routes in between.

data network engineer

commute everyday... except one day not so long ago because of the ice.


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 9:08 am
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1h 40 each way
project engineer
and not as often as I would like!

Cheers, Rich


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 9:14 am
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never timed it tbh, but about an hour each way daily, this time of year.


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 9:14 am
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1:15 each way, 4 times a week, civil servant (Newport)


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 9:47 am
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Just under an hour each way

Mechanical Design Engineer

Drive car in on a monday morning, leave it in the car park, bike the rest of the week and drive home on a friday evening. I need a car available at work for site visits, so it sits in the car park all week and is my effectively my locker with all my kit in.


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 9:48 am
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Hour each way on the road bike. Wouldn't like to try it on my MTB it would take an age.

Factory Manager

Don't do it at the moment because it it too dark to ride down the country lanes at 5am. Will be doing it twice a week in the summer.


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 9:59 am
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1.5hr each way off road.

Line manager for an engineering/fabrication organisation.

Three times a week.


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 10:04 am
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About an hour each way......

Furniture maker.

Whenever I don't need the Van.


 
Posted : 12/02/2010 10:09 am
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