Do you wish you had a longer commute?

[purplepolly]

I do the short route, 3.5 miles, in really bad weather or when I've been a bit under the weather. Otherwise the commute gets stretched by various detours.

 

[ausalex]

Yep, Direct commute is 2.7 miles, managed 80 this week extending it here and there. Shortest ride was just over three but I did stop and play 5 a side for an hour before coming home.

It's sometimes too easy to be lazy and take the direct ride home or lay in bed longer in the morning so a longer commute would remove this option for me.

 

[Bman]

Yes I would prefer a longer commute. Mine is 2.9miles each way (3.1 if you include the car park). Maybe im lazy, but I dont want to add extra loops to make up the distance. I like to travel direct.

Its ok. I make up the lack of miles by going on non-essential rides. That way I dont feel the need to push too hard on the commutes. I can push it on the leisure rides instead.

Today's stats :
First commute = 3.07
Warmup = ~3
Race = 8.05
Second commute = 2.95
Total = 17.07 miles. Not too bad I think.

 

[beanzontoast]

I'll stick with 6 miles each way thanks - especially in the months when I'm riding in the dark both ways. I can always do more by choice when the light and weather are better.

 

[Sittingduck]

At around 5 and a half miles each way, I wouldn't mind it being a bit longer. Maybe 8 miles or so...

 

[Sysagent]

Mmm dunno about getting a longer one myself (phanr phanr)...

Thing is I wonder if it is possible to do a 62 mile commute everyday?

I have made my mind up that at the moment it's just on the verge of too much is 62 miles a day with my level of fitness, yesterday on the way home (around 20 odd miles in) I was having to dig deep to keep going and that was after some decent food during the day.

I can manage the 46 miles a day route comfortably as it misses out the masses of hills in the first few miles from my doorstep.

 

[potsy]

When I first started cycling in April I thought my 18.5 mile round trip was going to be too far to do more than a couple of times a week,now I do all week and sometimes a few weekend miles as well.
Think it is a perfect distance now.

 

[PatrickPending]

mine's 76km return journey, 80km plus if i take the scenic route back. do i wish it was longer errrm no

 

[jonny jeez]

What I find rather impressive is peeps like you and Hackers riding 5 and more days in a row.

I'm a bit of a lightweight that way, as I do the weekend and tues/weds/thurs, so I get Mondays and Fridays to rest and recover.

Ditto, that's almost always my routine to.

I generally take the motorbike in on Monday and Friday, but I dont do any riding at the weekend other than family rides around bedgeberry (or suchlike) on the very odd occasion, so I generally run in on Tue/Wed/Thurs myself.

That said, that racks up a fair amount of miles in a week (enough for me as a beginner)

Jonny

 

[eldudino]

My commute is exactly the same as the OP, 3.5 miles each way but I extend it to 5 miles each way usually and longer on the odd occasion. The limiting factor for me is time, in the morning I usually have work I need to get on with and in the evening I want to get home to see the sprog. Having said that, if I lived further away and had to commute a greater distance, I would, so is it just laziness on my part that I don't do a 20mile per day commute?!

 

[scouserinlondon]

Erm... No.

7.5 miles through London at 8 am is just fine thanks.