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Bryan

Bryan

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Today I made my last long commute to work. Moving house tomorrow, so no more 25 mile cross London rides; dodging traffc round Hyde park corner for me, now it will be only 7-8 or 10 if I want to cycle all the way along the canal towpath. Have I enjoyed the last 2 years of 50 mile a day commuting (ok I only did it 3 or 4 timesa week, but believe me that's enough), actually no, but it did get me off my backside and get me a bit fitter, and there were days when I could quite happily have carried on to rather than coming into the office.

Still as of next week I'll be gaining an extra 2 hours a day, and I dare say that during the summer that will be taken up with cycling

Bryan

p.s. just for the record fasted time to work 1hr 19 minutes, faster time home 1hr 15 (it's a bit more down hill), number of traffic lights en route about 130, number of crashes 2, typical time 1hr 30, time for ame journey on tube 1hr 10.
 
Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:

: p.s. just for the record fasted time to work 1hr 19 minutes, faster
: time home 1hr 15 (it's a bit more down hill), number of traffic lights
: en route about 130, number of crashes 2, typical time 1hr 30, time for
: ame journey on tube 1hr 10.

That was some serious commuting. It's that final line that makes it
seem sensible - if it's only 10-20 mins longer than the tube then
that's much easier to justify than if it took an hour longer


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Arthur Clune wrote:
> Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> : p.s. just for the record fasted time to work 1hr 19 minutes, faster
> : time home 1hr 15 (it's a bit more down hill), number of traffic
lights
> : en route about 130, number of crashes 2, typical time 1hr 30, time
for
> : ame journey on tube 1hr 10.
>
> That was some serious commuting. It's that final line that makes it
> seem sensible - if it's only 10-20 mins longer than the tube then
> that's much easier to justify than if it took an hour longer

Too true, I think that much time on the tube could be worth a whole lot
more cycling time. Especially if you consider how many colds and flu
you can pick up down there.
 
LSMike wrote:
> Arthur Clune wrote:
> > Bryan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > : p.s. just for the record fasted time to work 1hr 19 minutes,
faster
> > : time home 1hr 15 (it's a bit more down hill), number of traffic
> lights
> > : en route about 130, number of crashes 2, typical time 1hr 30,
time
> for
> > : ame journey on tube 1hr 10.
> >
> > That was some serious commuting. It's that final line that makes it
> > seem sensible - if it's only 10-20 mins longer than the tube then
> > that's much easier to justify than if it took an hour longer
>
> Too true, I think that much time on the tube could be worth a whole
lot
> more cycling time. Especially if you consider how many colds and flu
> you can pick up down there.

I must admit that when it was pouring down in the moring, I was tempted
more often than not by the tube, theres sometihing about arriving cold
and wet, even when you have a shower at work that really doesn't set
you up well for the day. I was never tempted in the middle of summer,
unless I had to be somewhere in London in the evening, stiffling heat
and no air-con, and they say the tube is modern. I must grudgingly
give TFL credit for getting more tubes on the 'delayed' Met line
working recently, when I have used the tube this year, I've only had
one day when it took me over 2 hours to get to work, these used to be
quite frequent (now you can see where the inspiration to cycle came
from)

Bryan
 
yorky wrote:

> I must admit that when it was pouring down in the moring, I was
> tempted more often than not by the tube, theres sometihing about
> arriving cold and wet, even when you have a shower at work that
> really doesn't set you up well for the day.

I reckon that by the time I've done the 15 minute walk to the tube, at the
very least my feet will be wet and then I have to squelch about for another
40 minutes /and/ put up with the hell that is the Northern Line (Bank
branch). Even worse if my trousers are wet as well. No, don't like that at
all.

> I was never tempted in
> the middle of summer, unless I had to be somewhere in London in the
> evening, stiffling heat and no air-con, and they say the tube is
> modern.

Only /ever/ use the tube for that purpose. King Ken is apparently offering
a Substantial Reward to anyone who can devise an air-con system that can be
retro-fitted to current trains.

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Graham Dean wrote:
> Gosh - that's been some commuting! I'm slowly trying to manage 17
miles a
> day....

I'm currently doing about 150 miles a day.

Unfortunately, about 140 of those miles are by train. :-(

d.
 
Arthur Clune wrote:
> That was some serious commuting. It's that final line that makes it
> seem sensible - if it's only 10-20 mins longer than the tube then
> that's much easier to justify than if it took an hour longer

A colleague of mine spends an hour each way on the tube every day, plus
an hour in the gym three or four times a week... I've suggested the
obvious time-saving strategy to her, but it hasn't yet sunk in.

d.
 
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