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As the thread title suggests. Just curiosity really.
Anything over 75mins each way IMO 🙂
I found that doing 20 miles a day (10 each way) for 5-6 days meant I was knackered for any weekend riding.
I do 23miles each way but only twice a week. I don't think I could do 5 days a week!
when I was very fit, I found 19 miles each way 5days a week fairly hard going though I've never been any good at just cruising along.
30 ish round trip or much over an hour
I did 15 miles each way while on nights a few weeks ago. After 3 rides in I was fed up. Coming home was the worst, I could see the mirage of a bed in the distance.
I am doing 6 miles at the moment and wouldn't like to do much more. Done 7.5 in the past. I do work unsocial hours, long shifts and many days without a day off
I've managed 8 daily each way through the summer with any ill effects.
does any one have a longer commute and drive part of it? anyone managing a 20 mile plus commute purely by bike?
over an hour each way would be too much for me
tbh you will adapt to whatever you have to
24 miles each way. that's too far. I know. although granted it wasn't every day, once a week was enough
yes you can adapt but you dont want to ride for fun.
i am doing 16 each way at the moment, a couple of years back i was doing 13miles. It doesn't sound much an extra 3 miles but it adds up.
I am not going to do the commute every day it is just a bit too much, it effects the weekend cycling.
does any one drive to their work with their bike then cycle home cycle to work the following day etc? Also how long is the 25 mile commute taking 2ish hrs?
Personally, as already said, anything over the hour to hour and a qtr mark becomes a chore to me.
My route is 14 1/2 miles each way. It averages at about an hour, but I wouldn't want to go further or longer as its an esposed route along the coast and i get hammered by the prevailing winds. I dont and cant do it everyday due to the shifts / weather sometimes.
I find that at the 8 mile mark, i always come to thinking about whether i'm getting on well, or toiling at it. I reckon that a 6 to 8 mile commute I would do almost regardless of the conditions ... its a really good distance I reckon.
Currently doing 20 a day 5 days a week but I can reduce it if I feel a bit weary by the end of the week. But need to motivate myself to do more night rides and weekends.
I've done 13 miles each way every day through London (so lots of start stop) and that was ok most of the time. Done a asymmetric 17.5 miles there 13 miles back and that started to feel bit of a drag in terms of time and and effort. I think for me 15 miles each way would be my limit for 5 days a week.
Although at the moment I'm very lazy and drive 8 miles to work 3 days a week and ride ride 2days a week!
6 to 8 mile commute I would do almost regardless of the conditions ... its a really good distance I reckon
I have to - its my only real way of getting to work
I used to do 19 miles each way...5 days a week.Last thing I wanted to do on my day off was ride a bloody bike 😕
Same here tj
13 miles each way, I usually have Fridays off if I'm racing or have a hard ride planned for the weekend, I'll do the full 5 if not.
Suits me fine, I did a couple of years of 6 miles each way at another job, then did 3/4/5 days a week now just building up to it.
Saying that, I've got a cold on the way so it's the car in the morning!
I did 18 miles each way in Germany most days. It was ok, I didn't really want to drive all the time and it was quicker than the train due to connections. It was pretty good actually but not that great for targeted training - I was often too tired to sprint properly for example.
If I lived less than 10 miles I reckon I'd bike it every time I was a 'normal' day shift (ie, not a 7am start or 2100 finish!)
20 a day is fine. Bit knackered when I extend it to 30 a day. I drive on Mondays as it's my rest day (from cycling at least).
Mine varies between 5 to 10 miles each way - any further than that I'll get a train in the morning, but happily ride around 20/25 miles home. I never rush (don't want to get too sweaty!), but have definitely got faster these days.
Oh, and I don't sit in an office - I'm outside on my feet all day.
i sometimes cycle to work 10 mile each way but could not do it all week specialy now im starting at 6.30am i think it also depends on what your job is? my job is fairly manual (welder/fabricator) and do a fair amount of heavy lifting but i think if i had a office job i could cycle a lot more often.
back in 'the day' (late 90s in this case) i had a 30-something friend who would regularly clock up 100+ miles a week commuting, often taking in far longer offroad routes. he'd then meet us at the weekend, smoke about a billion roll-ups and beast us all up the climbs. damn him!
i used to ride a minimum of 6 miles each way, but often getting up really early to get in the hills to see the sun rise. that was a couple of years back via the lovely pentland hills...
13 miles there and back tuesdays on the fixie, bit further and more off road thursdays on the Mtb. Don't have a shower at work so sweaty backs can be an issue. The distance is about perfect though I'd say.
sweaty backs can be an issue
Wet wipes!
used to work short nights ,did 13 miles each way roughly but a different route out and back coming home at 3am in the winter felt a damn sight too long
i find 7 miles 5 days a week means i don't want to ride weekends. drive in the middle of the week to keep me keen.
17 miles a day, 3 days a week if possible
Alex222 mine takes about 1hr 20 for the 23miles, no need to worry about what you eat ( within reason 🙂 ) no need to go to the gym etc. I find it a good time to think about stuff too!
for 7 yrs in my 30's i did 12 mile each way 5 days a week.
ate whatever whenever, rode plenty of long audax rides at the weekends off the back of it.
i now ride 6 mile each way every day (very slowly cos of the ticker).
i have commuted by bike every day since leaving school in 1982.
I think the route helps too. Mine is around 16 each way and I do it 4-5 times aweek depending on how many shirts I have in work. I usually take enough for two weeks in at once. My route is mostly offroad and parts of it are just lovely in summer. It's getting a bit wet now mind, mudguards needed soon. I absolutely love it. Been doing it for over a year now, it's never too far although some evenings in winter I wish it could be a bit easier. In summer I will regularly extend the ride home though, I think the most I've got it up to is about 26 miles, big offroad loop almost from the work from the work gates to my front door.
And that's a big old bite of chompy choddy right there.
Potential looking at a 27 mile commute. i am a reasonably strong cyclist but I am concrned that this may be too far so I am wondering about drivng part of the journey at first or driving one day then cycling home then cycling to work the following day and driving home. just weighing it up really.
Old commute was 17m each way. Used to do that 5 days a week. Ideal way to get an hour's exercise at each end of the day.
But, I did get ill in February, and only properly got back on the bike last weekend.
New commute is 26 miles each way. It's lumpy, so takes 90 mins each way. Have yet to do it more than once a week.
I think the route helps too
Of course, if you live at the bottom of Alpe d'Huez but work in a cafe at the top..
Although it'd be a fairly easy commute back home.
Potential looking at a 27 mile commute. i am a reasonably strong cyclist but I am concrned that this may be too far so I am wondering about drivng part of the journey at first or driving one day then cycling home then cycling to work the following day and driving home. just weighing it up really.
Half and half sounds like way too much effort and faff, and I'd guess that 90% of the time you'd chicken out and just drive all the way, unless you have the will power of a god.
Driving there, cycling back, cycling there, driving back, etc. etc. Sounds like the best idea, but what if you need the car when it's at work? Have you got a second car? Could cause problems.
@alex222 - for me, if I could do something like that, I could cope with it more. As it is, once a week max for me TBH.
When I lived in the city I had a 16 mile round trip to work, which i did 5 days a week. Then we moved to the country and it became a 38mile round trip. I try to do it twice a week, but I am considering driving half and cyclig half as its the last 7 miles home that is the most dangerous. no lights, no hard shoulder, narrow twisty road with a 60MPH limit.
For a while i was doing about 60k round trip 5 days a week. Funnily enough by Saturday I was cooked. Now do it once or twice a week and that lets me train as well.
I should add, I tried commuting Cardiff to Bristol for a couple of months - managed 4 times some weeks, some only two. I did it through the swine flu thing though and I think I might have had it and tried to ride and ended up seriously overdoing it.
I started a new job in August,so my commute went from 12 miles each way to 18 miles each way, which is just over an hour. Last week I did that every day, and that was getting a bit hard.
Used to do 37 miles each way. Leighton Buzzard to North London with crappy Wonder Lights...remember them?