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DO you commute? Do you or don't you? I think you do.

Is it worth it? Do you get fresh air AND urban thrills? Tell me.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I drive to work, about a 15 minute drive. No bus service where I work. Best part of my day (goes downhill from there). My last job required a 100 km drive to and from work, which was not so good, but luckily I love to drive. No fresh air (I work in an industrial park downwind from a mushroom farm), no urban thrills either. Sorry for getting your thread off to such a miserable start.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The truth can often be miserable.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I also have a 10-15 minute drive to work. It's not very exciting. I don't really have to think about it anymore. I live on the same street where I work, so it's a straight shot. I just listen to music and try and wake up.

― Nick A. Cuddlycutiecat (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

One nice thing about my commute is that there is no straight route to where I work, so it's interesting from a driving standpoint, anyway.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a 10 minute train journey. It's not great, but at least it's short. And there is a certain comfort in routine isn't there? Also the one poem I've had published recently was directly inspired by it, so...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 April 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

It takes me 30 minutes to drive to work. It would only take 20 except for there being other cars on the road.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

5 min. walk
15 min. subway
10 min. walk

it's worth it! :-D

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to go to work before the rush hour really gets going. And I get to listen to great music like this on my way!

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, since the beginning of this year, when we moved to our new building I have had a fifteen minute bus journey. It's ok

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

gygax, don't you live in the city???

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

1-2 minute walk depending on presence of psycho drivers, 15 minutes via subway. Beats the 40 (20 minutes if express) minute train ride and 10 minute hike from the station.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

76 or 141 bus 10 mins
waterloo & city line tube 4 mins
train 35 mins
walk 10 mins

with waiting in between and stuff, its usually around 70 minute journey

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

It takes me 1 hour 30 minutes to get to work. 12 miles from one side of London to the other on public transport. Mind you, it wouldn't be much quicker in a car.

― marianna, Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I droive.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I am glad some Londoners have posted here as I was getting depressed at the huge chunks of my time I waste commuting. My record for getting in is 35 mins (tube+bus) but average is 45-50mins (30min walk+tube). Lately I have been walking in more often in an effort to get some exercise, it takes around 1hr 15.

― Emma, Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I start work while I'm still in bed. Ah, working from home!

Commuting largely sucks, though. Other than being an opportunity to read, which is obv a good thing, it's a real drain on time and effort.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

who needs excercise when you're in the sweat capital of the world.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I should add it takes me at least 1hr to get from N London burbs to Moneyland. Took 1hr 30 yesterday. BLAH

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually live within 10 minutes bicycling distance from my place of employ, but most days of the week I take my son to his pre-school first, which would be about 10 minutes on the road, except for all the other cars. But I like driving...I especially crave that few minutes in the car heading back to work after dropping off my son when I can blare some music at ear-splitting volumes and get my rocks off briefly before I have to come in here and keep the volume & rocking levels down.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

What with all that sweat and piss I sometimes fear Ronan might one day drown in a tide of salty bodily fluids.

― Emma, Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

20 minute commute.. I don't mind in the mornings because I am in no hurry to get to work. I can listen to good music and the sun looks great on the mountains; HOWEVER, commuting home is a definite dud. More traffic, and I'm anxious to GET THERE so when I get stuck in traffic, I start getting impatient and road-ragey.

― Mandee, Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

has anyone else in london seen that advert on the tube at victoria (and possibly elsewhere) that explains how commuters should bring down capitalism? and is illustrated with a picture of some ants?

anyway, my commute is quick and painless: 30 mins walk/tube from brixton to soho.

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

There is no way I'll drown in the Thames.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yes i do. 5 min bus. 30-35 min train and 5 min tube (but of course waiting for things prolongs this, by usually 15 mins).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

If I leave my house at around 8 or 8:30 I'll sit parked on the tollway and it'll take me about 45 min. to get to work.
Luckily, my boss lets me come in later (after I told him about the traffic) so I can go 75mph the whole way and it only takes me 20 minutes to get to work if I leave at 9ish.
Half the days I'll listen to music--bass is oddly soothing in the morning--and half the time I feel the need to listen to a human speaking voice and throw on talk radio.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the few advantages of living where I do and working in Wood Green (apart from the H&M that's just opened on the High Road - woo!) is that I have a direct and fairly quick bus journey through a pretty part of North London. Takes 35 minutes door to door, and I can either read, listen to music, or daydream while staring at Alexandra Palace from the top deck. Ignoring horrible skoolkidz and their conversations about who the biggest slag in their class is can be difficult at times, though.

I live in fear/hope of the day I get a proper job and have to get on the smelly tube every morning.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The only criterion of a 'proper job' for me is that it specifically DOESN'T involve the smelly tube.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Five minute walk.

That is it. I don't *DO* commuting.

The last job I had that I had to commute, I had a 2 hour subway/PATH/train commute each way. After that, I resolved that I was never working anywhere that I couldn't walk to, ever again.

― kate, Thursday, 3 April 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

currently: 15 minute commute to Midtown on the N/W (with exceptions like today, when the train was inexplicably slow).

after Saturday: 1 hour (est.) commute to Midtown on the C and F. I think I'm gonna actually like this better cuz it'll force me to get up earlier and I'll actually have some focus time on the train before I get to work. We shall see, tho.

― hstencil, Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

7 min walk + 35 mins tube + 5 min walk for me. not too bad, esp as i actively like reading on the tube.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is far too depressing. I was really chuffed the other day, I did my door to door record - 1 hour and forty minutes

but like Toby says, I get to read a hella lot of books

― chris (chris), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Now about 40 minutes via tube and then overland train. Tube is pretty crowded but tolerable, but the train is lovely and peaceful. The journey doesn't last long ENOUGH just when I'm getting into a book. However I'm sure that soon my guts will be shrieking to work back in town again (IN FACT THEY ALREADY ARE).

― sarah at work in WOOLWICH, Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

1 bus, 1 train,1 tram = 1 hr +/-10 minutes.

Depending which route I chose I can wave at:

- The Peace Palace
- The Dutch Parliament
-Slobodon Milosovic’s current abode

- The kurhaus
- before arriving in scheveningen .

― stevo (stevo), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

12 minute walk to work.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Two buses, usually thirty minutes max either way (would be much quicker if it wasn't for the connection, of course).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

30 minutes. 2 blocks to the train. train to 5th Ave. Walk 10 blocks up Fifth Ave. I love my commute. In a week it's a switch to walking up Broadway though. And I don't love Times Square.

― Becky (Rebecca), Thursday, 3 April 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

either a 5 minute drive or a 20 minute walk

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 April 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

About 20 minutes from Seattle to Bellevue over the 520 floating bridge. Getting back is sometimes twice as long, depending on the traffic. It's not as bad as it could be, though; I have coworkers who travel from other parts of the Eastside, and it takes them more than an hour.

When I lived in NYC, I lived TWO SUBWAY STOPS away from my job. Walked two blocks east on 23rd St., hopped the A/C/E train, got off at 42nd, and walked one block to work. I'll never have that kind of amazing commute again.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 3 April 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

it takes me 60 minutes to go 6 miles.

5 minute bike ride to el, 20 minute ride on el, 10 minute bus ride, 15 minute walk. factor in 5 minutes waiting for el and 5 (if i'm lucky it's only 5) for the bus and it's an hour. all to get to the one area of chicago without any decent restaurants.

― otto, Thursday, 3 April 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

hi otto,

why don't you ride your bike the whole 6 miles?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 3 April 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

When I lived on Long Island in NYC, the choice was either: a 20- or 45-minute walk (each way) to the nearest bus. Depended on which line I chose to take.

London was easier---mostly: as I was in East London, and most of my activities took place in Fulham or other parts of the West End, the tube was only a 20 minute walk (or 8 minute bus ride) away.

Now, visiting my mum in FL, I can't currently commute at all....unless I bargain for someone to drive me around---a major pain any-and everywhere.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 3 April 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

20 minute drive each way (no freeway oddly).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

why don't you ride your bike the whole 6 miles?

i've thought about it many times and i think i may actually do it once at least this summer (if i'm still here). the only problem is that it's 6 miles through some of the, uh, more economically challenged neighborhoods of the west side. then there is the fact that the last mile would be exclusively through housing projects.

i'm sure the ride to work wouldn't be a big deal, it's the ride home that would be way sketch.

― otto, Friday, 4 April 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

20 minute drive for me. Used to be 45 minutes when I lived in Boston.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 4 April 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I walk just under a mile to the train, take that train to another train, then get off and walk a few blocks to work. It takes anywhere between 50 and 70 minutes.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 4 April 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Otto, 6 miles shouldn't take you more than about 30 minutes. Can you not go round the dubious areas? More cycling, yes, but more exercise, health, wellbeing etc...

(just done a 15 mile-odd pleasure cycle to Ham and back. Practically a perfect day for it.)

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 4 April 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you not go round the dubious areas

no, there's really no way around it. urban blight is pretty widespread on the westside and near southwest side.

― otto, Friday, 4 April 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Was the title of this thread supposed to be a Drive Like Jehu pun?

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Friday, 4 April 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

short walk, single tube ride, shortish walk. Around 50 minutes, but most of that is spent sitting (I reckon I'm seated 95% of my commuting time on the tube) with a walkman and a book, which is fine with me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 April 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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NJ Transit sucks. it's almost as bad as SEPTA and the LIRR (both of which have gotten better over the past few years, while NJ Transit has gotten WORSE).

my new commute's 40 min.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Kyle, I'm still amazed by how we NEVER see each other.

― Darcus How? (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 January 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

NJT is a lot worse than the LIRR in my experience. LIRR might be overcrowded but it usually seems to get to where it's going in a reasonable amount of time with minimal delays. NJT is like some kind of train system from the Pony Express era of railroad transporation or something. In fact, I think riding a damn pony would've gotten me from Wayne to NYC faster than that fucking train.

― Allyzay, Friday, 16 January 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

And no, i don't see the same people all the time.

Maybe I haven't been doing it long enough?

― Darcus How? (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 January 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The toughest part of my job right now is getting there and back.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 16 January 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

CBT training? Or classes?

CBT sucks balls.

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Friday, 16 January 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

@d@m I think you are on the other side of the train. Also, I don't leave for work until 9:00 these days because I'm lazy.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 16 January 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, I finished the CBT crap in like my first week here. Classrooms and laptops. Still mind-numbing. I'm not really going to bitch at $34 an hour but seriously I hate having to drive out here and back.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 16 January 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the LIRR is better than NJT in that at least the LIRR doesn't lie about how bad they suck. NJT claims that they always win these "prizes" for being the best public transportation system in the country -- like, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. but they suck, no matter how many "prizes" they win. that, and the trains are always dirty and late.

SEPTA (philly's train system) is almost as bad ... at least NJ Transit trains DON'T OVERSHOOT THE FUCKING STATION, have to REVERSE COURSE to go BACK to the fucking station they overshot, and then do the same shit AGAIN before getting to 30th Street 20 minutes behind schedule (thereby making me miss my connecting Amtrak and forcing me to be stuck in West Philly for TWO HOURS) and BLAME IT ON FUCKING FALLING LEAVES. and this was NOT a one-time occurrence.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

What's really funny is that I bought myself one of those traveller coffee cup things so that I don't always waste a whole thing full of java every day, and went and sat down on BART and listened to my iPod. Only, as I was sitting there I looked around and realized I was one of several East Bay geeks sitting on BART drinking from a silver coffee thing and listening to their iPod. And at that point I had to wonder exactly what kind of nightmare I had walked into.

― Darcus How? (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, if NJT is the "best public transport in the country" WTF do other states have? Giant snails carrying them around?

― Allyzay, Friday, 16 January 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

this is viewable from SEPTA and Amtrak passengers, NOT njt passengers

http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/images/trenton.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

That is one of my favorite signs EVER. I used to watch for it when riding on the train from DC to NYC and back (not a commute, though). I remember it being lit up in red at night.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 16 January 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I take the 5:35 bus to work every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning. There are always the same eleven or twelve people on the bus, and we all kind of have our assigned seats and sometimes we nod at each other in acknowledgment of our mutual red-eyed suffering. The bus to work takes about twenty minutes, and I like to try to read but they've installed televisions on the buses now and they're really loud and I can't get anything done.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 16 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I was ranting to Matos the other day: I love my job and everything, but I just fucking hate the commute. I take two buses and a shuttle each way to work from Seattle to Redmond. Usually takes about an hour these days each way (Traffic has been really fucked up these days for some reason or another). If you would have told me I would be enduring this shit everyday a while back, I would have laughed and said "no thanks". Then again, i really like my job, and, um... well, it's the price I pay for something I should really be thankful for, basically.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 16 January 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

the same

― knife (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

it's been fucking annoying me lately.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

i'm about to start commuting 45min-1hr each way. luckily it's on a train and i don't have to drive.

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

― knife (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

77 mins each way now

― terry lennox. (gareth), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I walk. 7 miles a day. I'm smug.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Twelve minutes. So exact that I have a "12 Minutes" playlist on my iPod that I use on my commute.

There's that damned stupid SUV commercial that begins with a guy so instilled in his routine that he leaves the same impression in his bed, the same footprints on the grass, etc. When it comes to my commute, I have no problem with the same exact thing, five days a week.

I wish there was better mass transit in this town, at least better than the bus that comes by every fifty minutes, give or take twenty, at the time that I get off work. But since my town has decided to instead invest in trolleys that run the same six blocks downtown, I'll be trucking along at $2.75/gallon.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

777

― 777, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

yeah, i think it's like 80$ a month, but i can buy discounted train tix from work or something? also, i think gas would cost 50 times that right now.

and either my psychatrist or my alcohol bill would skyrocket

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I meant

"but think of the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ you will be MAKING"

― knife (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

If you count walking from the bedroom to the office, then yes, I commute.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

xpost, well, yeah, that

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

It takes me about an hour each way. I hate it.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Answer same as before -- and all bus routes in OC are free for UCI affilates, a very handy benefit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

my husband walks three blocks to work but we're moving tomorrow, seven miles away, I feel a little guilty about it.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

I would be unabale to commute I think, this isn't such a comfort. I'd be not getting on busy trains, getting off at stations before the train goes underground and etc. So, luckily I'm still on my 12 minute walk to work.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

20 miles each way, between 30-45 mins(or worse)

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Two blocks to Metro, twenty minutes' ride, two blocks to office. No problem.

Twice as long _after_ rush hour, when the green line effectively retires for the night.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I bike to work everyday, regardless of the weather (so far). 8 mi. round trip. Highlight of my workday, hands-down.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, it took me 1h 45m to get home from work this evening instead of the usual 25m. My only consolations were the thought that it would have taken me way longer had I been on a bus and the bar of chocolate I found in the glove box.

― Mï¿½dchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

For 25 years, always via mass transit.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I bike to work everyday, regardless of the weather (so far). 8 mi. round trip. Highlight of my workday, hands-down.

OTM. I took the subway today, owing to the massive nor'easter, and instantly remembered how much I despise doing so. Not to mention that biking takes half as long, is usually totally beautiful, and is free.

― d4niel coh3n (dayan), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

The train ride is one of the highlights of my day--it's the most uninterrupted reading time I get, usually. May I never drive again.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

How do the bikers deal with sweating before work?

I have a 5-7 min drive to work, to turn into a 20 min. drive within the year (the company is moving, not me).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Unfortunately I drive right now, about 16 miles out to the north suburbs. Takes me about 40-50 minutes on an average day each way, longer at night. For some reason it's been a lot worse the last month or so, especially yesterday and today with the rain (quite annoying, but thats for another time). I'd love to take the train, but its actually more cost effective for me to drive my car even with gas prices this high. Since I'm often going to client meetings and/or jobsites that require a long drive, I can't just get rod of my car. Taking the train to work costs me roughly $9.50 a day, but it only costs me about $25 a week to fill my car up - so it just doesn't make sense right now. I really do hate the drive though.

― jonviachicago, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

1 hour drive each way.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I rationalize it by telling myself that it's my music-listening time.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, it took me 1h 45m to get home from work this evening instead of the usual 25m.

This accident seemed to have caused some amount of problems - I got caught up in a massive tailback on my way home in the Govan/Shieldhall area, presumably people trying to get off the motorway and through the Clyde Tunnel. However I am cunning and went through some wee side streets and got home quite quickly.

Anyway, to answer the question, I drive about five miles and then get the underground into the city centre. Then about a two minute walk to my work. Total journey time about 35-45 minutes depending on traffic lights.

A month ago I used to drive three miles and walk for about two minutes. Total journey time approximately fifteen minutes (though liable to have gone up to thirty in rush hour and with traffic lights against me).

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

How do the bikers deal with sweating before work?

With proper planning and pacing, you needn't sweat any more than if you walked, for the most part. Also, underdress at the start, and de-jacket/de-helmet first thing upon arrival. Other strategies include finding a healthclub nearby with showers, or hyper-aggressive sink use (not recommended by me). I prefer slow riding the morning commute, with moderate sink use. Granted, I probly sweat less than many people might on this kind of ride, but I think folks overstress this matter.

I don't know why everyone moves away from me wherever I sit.

The close-in parking at school is now almost $400/year, so I'm riding everyday (but for 3, so far). It's about 10 miles each way. I listen to lectures on my mp3 player, the world goes by, it's good. If it were another 4 or 5 miles each way, I'd maybe wear bikey stuff, but for 40 minutes each way, trousers and a button front are fine.

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I guess you live in one of those places that doesn't have winter?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hunter OTM. I sweat a bit, so I wear "freeride" bike shorts (padded clingy shorts inside durable normal-looking shorts) and a polypro top. I bring a towel when it's hot: as soon as I get to the office, I go to the bathroom and wipe off the excess moisture. No sweat = no stink.

If we had a shower, I'd probably use it.

xpost - I live in Chicago (as you may know) and have been commuting with tights on the two days the weather's been bad. They were overkill!

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I guess you live in one of those places that doesn't have winter?

Yup, Denver.

We've already had one 11 inch snow storm, and I did not bike that morning because I had a presentation very first thing. I could not risk being late. It was totally do-able though, as the snow didn't stick much on the road or canal path. Good full fenders, a mudflap, and gaiters are required for muddy days on the canal path.

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I ride bike most days. It's probably about 15 miles round trip.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Thameslink, baby. 40 minutes on the train and then a 15 minutes walk to my office. It's good when it's not so crowded that everyone can sit down and quietly read their books and/or Metro.

Someone actually tried to read my book over my shoulder today! That I don't mind at all, in fact I think it's quite cute. Well, when I'm not reading a highly embarrassing book as I was this morning.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

nine years pass...

been cycling this week cos fuckin schools are back. good.

― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 September 2015 23:28 (nine years ago)

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