How long is your journey to work

[Nigeyy]

23.8 miles each way. Fastest I've done it has been about an hour and twenty minutes, slowest time around two hours. Usually I do it in around an hour and thirty five to forty minutes.

Mind you, I don't do this commute that often, usually I park half way and then do a 11.5 mile commute which takes about 45 minutes. Really the time I do the commute in depends greatly on which bike I use -this year I haven't used my road bike so I'd guess I could knock some time off if I used that.

I usually do a full commute at least once a week, and do 2-3 half commutes. One day a week I have other commitments so I have to use the car.

 

[JamesM]

Somewhere between 14 and 15 miles I think. I've only done one trial run on my old mountain bike so far and I stopped at the train station rather than carrying on to work. That took a little over an hour but that included stopping for phone calls and a quick wrestling match with my chain when it got firmly stuck between the frame and the smallest cog.

It's nearly all on the canal so it should be fairly straight forward.

Looking forward to getting my new bike and finding out the actual distance and time taken.

 

[HLaB]

I commute 5 times a week but its easy with my distance of 3-5 miles (15-25 mins).

 

[4F]

29 miles round trip, 5 days a week

 

[grhm]

I commute 3-6 miles depending on route, mood etc. 5 days a week. If I come the quickest most direct route, it's 3 miles in less than 15 minutes.

If I goes the long way, it can take 40+ minutes but that involves a detour up the Malvern Hills and is more a how-far-can-I-get-without-stopping/dying detour.

 

[ColinJ]

Ok, we have the distances, but typically, how many days a week ?

2 flights of stairs, multiple times a day, 7 days a week, 7 weeks solid, then 1 week off in the midlands mother-sitting (keeping my elderly widowed mum company) .

 

[potnoodle]

I do 15-16 miles each way five days a week.

 

[hulver]

3.5 miles.

7 minutes on the way in.

14 minutes on the way home.

 

[HelenD123]

8 miles each way in about 40 minutes. I think the most I've managed so far is two days a week but that's mostly because I've been working away alot since I started cycle commuting. I think it will be a long time before I do the full 5!

 

[peanut]

To work, 3 miles in 9 minutes, all downhill

To home, 9 miles in 40 minutes, all uphill

change ya job Graham

 

[hackbike 6]

7 day stretches a lot of the time but I got a 4 day commute this week and next week and a 3 day week late October,then no commuting for a month and off to Bangkok where I hope to hire a bike.

Almost ten miles if you didn't already know.(As posted earlier)

 

[Batzman]

15 miles each way for me... takes about 50-60 minutes. 4 days a week.

 

[gavintc]

I have a mixed commute. I work in Glasgow, but live in Edinburgh - a distance of about 48 miles. I catch the train and then complete the final 1 1/2 miles on bike. going to work takes me about 75 mins. On the return leg, I cycle to the station, catch the train to Polmont or Linlithgow and then cycle back into Edinburgh leaving me a cycle ride of 23 or 17 miles. The homeward journey from desk to couch takes just short of 2 hours.

 

[rnscotch]

As i said earlier 15 miles each way, I work 12 hour shifts so i commute to work between 3 - 4 times a week... but i still do a similar commute to the gym when i am off so in effect i do the same journey, so all in all i would say 6 days a week.

Worse part of it all is after a 12 hour night shift, i go to the gym then cycle the 15 miles home it really pushes me and a few times i have had negitive thoughts, but i enjoy it really i love cycling.

*gavintc have you thought about getting off the train at croy and cycle into Glasgow along the canal path?

 

[mds101]

15 miles each way - I aim for 4 times a week and manage that most times. Not fast though, takes about 55 minutes in and 45 minutes home.

Not sure why so much faster home...could be because I like going home and I don't like going to work though...or it could be the big(ish) up going in and the big down coming home.