Job type vs cycle miles

[speccy1]

Job type....boring, underpaid, sat down all day, tedious, work with backstabbing evil bitchy snivelling b*stards

Mileage...most days 12 miles in on the road, 18 miles home on the old railway line, approx 150/week

 

[biggs682]

Desk and phone worker so minimal exercise at work, last year 3500 miles.

This years target 4k miles with same job.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I work about 25 hours a week cleaning windows for a living. Last year i rode 4600 miles, this year 5000 hopefully. When i climbed ladders for around 40 hours a week i cycled a lot less. Some years my total was just a few hundred miles. Work is the curse of the cycling classes!

 

[slowmotion]

I spend long hours in front of a screen and get decidedly twitchy if I can't do a few miles on the bike each day. Sometimes I have to do some physical stuff too...but I still get twitchy. It's endorphins or seratonin or something. Mild addiction anyway.

 

[slowmotion]

I work about 25 hours a week cleaning windows for a living. Last year i rode 4600 miles, this year 5000 hopefully. When i climbed ladders for around 40 hours a week i cycled a lot less. Some years my total was just a few hundred miles. Work is the curse of the cycling classes!

Doing stuff up ladders is absolutely exhausting. The back of my calves suffer. Any work at heights really gets me these days.

 

[Arrowfoot]

Having coming across cycling colleagues over the years, I doubt there is much relation between job types and cycling mileage. Those that aim for mileage will find it either during weekends or during their off times. Where I do find where correlation is a greater factor in the workplace is the riding attire and the mileage. Some of these highly geared chaps will actually take a much longer route to get to work and back. Interestingly the cost of the bike is not a factor.

 

[Devon lass]

Interesting, so job is just one factor among many. Spare time definitely plays a big role and mental attitude. People who want to ride will find the time even if tiered after a hard day at work.

 

[vernon]

People who want to ride will find the time even if tiered after a hard day at work.

You wanna bet?

 

[Devon lass]

Nope because I am not one of these people , ride when I feel like it.

 

[Julia9054]

I assume you must be all three then.

Not one of the many teachers I know would claim it's actually a physically demanding job, but that don't mean they aren't fatigued after a day at school. Do you think that sitting at a desk or strolling about a classroom is as hard physically as a labouring job?

Yeah, strolling! That's what i do!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Doing stuff up ladders is absolutely exhausting. The back of my calves suffer. Any work at heights really gets me these days.

It's not just the climbing of the ladders it's also carrying them. I used to have traditional wooden ones but i sold them for lighter aluminium ones when carrying them from job to job became too much work!

 

[Sara_H]

I'm a nurse, I used to work 3 13 hour shifts per week and nearly always rode, in part due to lack of public transport when I needed it. Now I work office hours four days per week, so work more days but am more likely to catch the bus on some occasions.
One day a week I go on the train to Uni where I'm studying part time - nearly always cycle to the station as the buses are so unreliable that I've ended up missing my train on a couple of occasions.

 

[potsy]

My job was physical, stood up most of the time, 5 days a week, 8 hour rotating shift work.
Cycled pretty much all the time, 18- 20 miles per day.

New job is not as physical but very tiring, stood up/walking all day, 12 hours per day with the same distance of 18-20 miles.
Hardly ride in at all now, am putting it down to the long days rather than the physical aspect of the job.

 

[Sandra6]

You're not a teacher...or a vet...or a doctor...

I'm not a lion either but I know they like to eat zebras.
I don't consider " being on your feet" to be physically demanding, not in the way labouring jobs are anyway.
And for what it's worth I worked as a TA in a private school doing a lot more " physically " than the teachers so I do feel qualified to comment on that profession at least.

 

[Broadside]

My job was physical, stood up most of the time, 5 days a week, 8 hour rotating shift work.
Cycled pretty much all the time, 18- 20 miles per day.

New job is not as physical but very tiring, stood up/walking all day, 12 hours per day with the same distance of 18-20 miles.
Hardly ride in at all now, am putting it down to the long days rather than the physical aspect of the job.

Similar for me, work has recently changed from a usual 8 hour day to 12 hours. I used to manage 4,000 miles a year, this year I reckon I will be lucky to see 2,000 miles