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What are yours? Slow train out of London after another long work day has got me thinking...
A gruelling 15 minutes in the car at ungodly o'clock in the morning and 20-25 minutes in the evening.
Bloody horrible bike commute though unfortunately.
30 mins ride in. 8hrs work. 30 mins home.
Im doing around 55min each way, so near enough 2 hours per day, which is quite a lot tbh. By bike would be a nice route but that would be 2hrs each way.
36 hours over 4 days with a 10 minute walk either end. Love it.
20 min ride each way.
I'd die before having a long drive to work
9 days in 10, I "work"* from home.
1 day in 10, I take the motorbike 25mins to the trains station, 2hrs.10mins to London where I pick my bike up at paddington and cycle the rest of the way/day around London.
Back the same way, so about 5hrs of travel.
5hrs over 10 days though is only the equivalent of 15mins each way a day.
* TBF I only work a few days at home, the rest of the time I'm free to tinker.
0.6 miles each way.
Can be a real bastard and double my journey time if there's frost on the windscreen.
5 minute walk and at least 12 hours at work but regularly 15 hours if I'm operational. If I'm in my new role then it's 12 hours unless I hang back to do a lengthy handover.
Used to be around 13 hours commuting time per week, was on a bike though so it was actually the hilight of the day. Working hours were supposed to be 7.5 per day but could run over quite dramatically as we got to the sharp end of projects.
Work from home now so I don't actually have a commute. I tend to use the first hour of the day to do some sort of exercise. There's no such thing as normal working hours as it all depends how much I've got to do that week, could be anything from 0 hours to through the night.
30 min on the bike 15-30 in the car either direction 9hr at work. I think you need to down graude effective hourly rate to take into account the commute
30 miles each way, so about 35 minutes by car. A typical day will start at 8:30 and end at 18:30 and I might squeeze 30 minutes or so in for lunch.
Only 3 days/week, 7 months/year though!
6 mins in on the foldie, tuck trews into socks/work/play/bugger about/eat lunch/more dilly dally/drink coffee/tuck suit trews into socks/grab foldie 5mins home.
Same
old
Same
Old.
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🙁
Generally an hour each way in the car.
Try to leave the house by 7:15 at the latest & get home about 6pm.
It's pretty crap, but the salaries are so much better as you get nearer to Cambridge & I like my job.
A mile and a half walk along canal bank there and back brill!
About 10 minutes by bike or 15 if I use the car (not often). On the bike I can go cross country which is a bit difficult in a Ford Fiesta so I have to follow the roads
The commute is currently 3hr 20m a day.
That won't last.
40 hour week with a ~10min commute each way.
Slick clunker of a bike, 1 mile down hill singletrack, two 30mph, slidey roundabouts (still trying to master)and a launch off a berm, skidding into the bike cage at work, much to the annoyance of the resident security!
Best 5min of the day!
Return, can take me an hour mind
30m drive going in. 30-45m going home depending when I finish. Only work 3 days a week though. Around 30 hours over 3 days.
35 mins in the car each way and then about 11/12 hours at work. 5 days a week with a rota for weekends so work one Saturday every 7 weeks.
Depends on the route I take, quickest is 8-10mins on the bike depending on traffic lights, on the way home cane be anything from 10mins to 3hrs if I want to make a ride of it 🙂
10 seconds each morning and evening---I work from home 😀
I would say end to end 11-13 hours, about 75 mins commute in total 30 in 45 on the way home. Typical big corporate middle management life I expect.
40 mins each way on the bike. Leave about 8.15, home 18.30 latest. Mon - Thu currently
Summer - motorbike and 35 mins on good day, normal 40.
Winter 1h 40 on a good day, 2h 15 on a bad. Not london, central scotland...
Summer on MTB 2h 30 on a roadie 2h.
Who says public transport works??
Working hours half seven to half five. Cut it back from quarter to seven finish out of sanity.
Return, can take me an hour mind
I used to live pretty much as high as you could on the Malvern Hills and work at the bottom; if I went for it I could be at the front gate in four minutes flat, but the way home again was a 25 minute slog...
North Cardiff to City Centre
30 mins ride in along the river, 8.5 hrs work, 30mins ride home along the river.
Occasionally I have to take the car in..then its 40-50mins in and the same back.
2 hours 40 Monday and Thursday
10 minutes on the bike each way Tuesday and Wednesday
So 6 hours total travel a week plus 30 hours work.
38-40 paid hours per week working, 12 mins total per day commuting. Leave home 7.40, generally back by 5. Earlier finish Fridays. It flexes though, depending on what I'm up to.
23 mins leisurely uphill ride to work, ~9hrs of talking/messing with bikes and 13 downhill minutes home.
Sometimes I go for a walk around the garden before work.
Sometimes I sit on a plane for hours before work.
This week is the latter. 🙁
10 minutes by bike or car each day and 8 hours at work. 2 hour ride home on a Monday and before work on a Tuesday and Wednesday. 3-5 hours MTB on the way home on a Thursday.
Love it
Usually a 45 min cycle there and back on a reasonable route, with 8-9hrs at work. On Fridays I get the bus half way and run via Holyrood Park (Edinburgh) and go for a run round the hills there. Amazing way to start a day.
Day shift, 7am to 7pm, I leave the house at 6am latest, 35-40 minute drive, 45 minute return, normally home by 8pm.
Night shift, 7pm to 7am, I have to leave the house by 5:45 latest, can be an hour drive, return can be 35 minutes on the weekend, hour ish in the week. I've had some horrific journeys home, latest home after a night shift was 9:30.
Best commute was walk down the stairs, worst was Hereford to Thurrock on a Monday morning, return on a Friday afternoon. Always left at 1pm on a Friday, but even so it would be a 6 hour drive. I once got home at 10pm.
It started with about 45-60 mins each way and 8hrs about 15 years ago
Varied from 15-60 mins over that time
Out of the lakes 30-40 mins with 8hr days
To the crap of the Manc/Warrington area 45-60 each way
By the time I left the UK 60-90 each way and 8hr days - added up to be 11 odd hrs each day
Currently as long as it takes to get from bed to the computer (or phone if I'm just checking e-mails)
The flip side is I have some slightly longer commutes for specific jobs 23hrs each way coming up
As of next week it will be a 2 hr flight to site and the I reckon 1 hr driving each way from camp to the drill rig fir 3 weeks straight. I do question why i do this sometimes as i wont be able to ride or the next 3 weeks.
I do question why i do this sometimes as i wont be able to ride or the next 3 weeks.
Same as everyone else on FIFO? Money?
Haha moneys been a bit average recently, pay reductions and reduced hours across the board. Still I do get to play with rocks and be outdoors so i dont mind to much. Wonder if i could steal the excavator and get a pump track built?
Lol you out in the west?
Just go for it, whats the worst that could happen
Work from home a few days a week generally 7.30/8 to 5 with a few mins for lunch
When I work in the office, also a few days a week, it's 2.5hrs each way, same working hours
1.5 hours each way but only 2 to 3 days per week. The rest: a set of stairs. If commuting, podcasts keep me sane.
20 mins by boat across the fjord in the morning and 3 mins ride to the office
1 hr 15 ride home along the fjord over some hills down into the next fjord and along to the village i live in
same every day
so not too bad really and the bike commuting doubles as training
To work is 25-70 minutes on the bike depending which route I go. Usually 30 minutes on the bike on the way home.
I seem to have implemented a shift of hours on this site start at 8 but we're locked up and done for 4.30pm, which when riding after work is great as I'm pedalling on the trails by 4.50pm.
Normal days it's a countryside 15 mins each way in the van at max speed 😆
5-10mins each way.
If I faced 1hr+ I'd re-evaluate where I worked or lived very quickly. Never commuted over 30mins.
Jams and stop start traffic are truly hideous.
I've thought of living somewhere beautiful but why spend 10hours in the car each week when I can be in the same place within 35mins Sat or Sunday. Most of the time you are living in somewhere 'nice' you are getting back late from your commute then sat in the house or garden. No ta
10 minute walk. 1:20 on the train, 15 minute Boris bike. Reverse coming home, so 3:30 a day.
Generally out of the house just over 12 hours a day.
35-45 mins in the car each way or an hour and a bit on the bike either way. Sometimes leave the car at work and ride home, always nice to take a spin after a long day.
Work from home 2-3 days a week, some days 10+ hours, some days 4 hours. In London the rest of the time which means a 12-14 hour day inc 2 hours train and tube at each end.
Much prefer this to the previous drive 10hr day including the 1he driving commute each way.
40hrs + whatever OT is required (maintenance)
Commute is anywhere from 15-30mins depending on traffic, my usual shift times are low traffic though.
Bike takes 25mins but is either a nasty country A road with poor sight lines and crap surface or MUCH longer B/unclassified roads used as rat-runs with even worse sight lines and worse surface...
About 10-15 mins if I drive, sub twenty if I cycle the quick route along the road, around an hour if I cycle off-road and get distracted 🙂 same on the way home.
Will soon be changing to longer though
10 seconds walk to the car.
The cars my workplace but never more than 20 mins to pick the first student up.
10 mile ride 35-45 minutes... via the shortest route/ 12 mile drive 25-30 minutes.. 28hr working week / 4 Days a week
If driving: leave house at half seven, get to work at just past eight, leave at five ish, home at half five, quarter to six.
If cycling: leave home at half six, in and leave work as above, home for half six ish
If working from home: post answer on commute time thread at about eight, whilst lying on my bed in my pants 🙂
25min short main road ride - or 75 min quiet (hardly see another vehicle) long ride. 8 mins by car.
Some folk seem to have interesting jobs - and some with commutes that I couldn't handle.
I'm lucky to live and work in a great place with riding from the doorstep.
I pity you OP. For 4 years, I commuted from near Aylesbury to central London. 20 mins on the bike to the station. 55 mins to London. Pick up rat bike and 20 mins to office. Plus showers, getting changed, faff, chiltern railways being universally sh!t 4 days out of 5. So at least four hours a day. And never took the tube because I hated it.
Can't believe i did it now. I'm similarly lucky to stoner now. WFH 6-8 days out of 10. Then most of my work is now down the road in Cheltenham, a pleasant 35 min drive. Could never go back to daily, long commutes.
15-25 road miles each way depending on which route I cycle. Normally a good eight hours at work. Try to cycle to work 2-3 days a week to save my sanity.
Only issue is that I'm riding my road bike more than my MTB.
10 min run to station, 45 min train, 15 min run from Waterloo along the river to work. 9 hour day of typical corporate middle management, then reverse the above in the evening, adding a bit of time for dodging tourists with selfie sticks.
Out of the house about 12hrs/day. I get to live in a beautiful place though, so it's tolerable (for now).
Car, 40mins each way - Horrible start/stop
Road bike, 40 mins each way - Not to bad
Mountain bike, 40 mins each way - Flat on the canal
Train, 20 mins each way door to door - easy peezy
working from home and covering the whole of Scotland my commute varies from 27 paces (yes, I counted) and a 7.45-5pm day to 240 miles and a 5 hour drive to the day's meetings/sites and a 0500-2100 day. usually 2/3 days each depending on the projects that are live.
2.5 hours a day commuting, but its on the bike so its bloody great. Would take about the 30 minutes less if I was driving. 8hrs on the button in work. I'm too old to play silly staying after 5 games.
I hope the long commuters dont profess a green/eco/look after the environment mindset 😉
About 30 min by car or motorbike, which isn't too bad.
10 minutes in the car or bike (but 15/20 back on the bike as it's all uphill) 35 minutes if I walk. Or 1hour+ if I take a long route there and back and accidentally walk into my local 🙂
Take the kids to nursery in the trailer, then cycle to work. 30 minutes all in.
Car -
In: 20-35 mins in the car, depending on how they've set the traffic light sequence off the m'way.
Home: 20 mins
Bike - 50 mins each way, depending on the wind's direction :0)
usual office day
6miles each way but there is a nursery drop-off in the middle of it
always by bike - Kona ute or singlespeed on the childless days, showers, lockers and a secure bike storage at work are brilliant. usually 45mins e/w or 20ish when going for it
Either;
30 minute walk, followed by 40 minute bus ride
or;
50 minute ride
I leave the house at 7.10am and (on a good day) get back home at 6.40pm. I'd love it to be less, but the other side of Nottingham isn't as nice.
3 mile bike ride across Cambridge, 12-15 mins depending on how enthusiastic I'm feeling...
20 mins by boat across the fjord in the morning and 3 mins ride to the office
1 hr 15 ride home along the fjord over some hills down into the next fjord and along to the village i live in
same every day...
ftw 😀
Sometimes I go for a walk around the garden before work.
Sometimes I sit on a plane for hours before work.This week is the latter.
Pretty much this. Planes about 3 weeks a month currently.
I'm in my office from 8am (my choice, no-one else gets here until 8:30am) until about 5:45pm. My transport options are:
Car - 1 hour ish either way up the M40, did this for 8 years, hated it, sold the car, so now I get the...
Train - 90 mins each way, I do this 3 days per week. I leave home about 6:20am and return 7:15pm ish. Longer than the car but it means I can sleep/relax/veg out and not be on the M40. I also have the option of...
Bike - 40 miles each way twice per week, though I generally just ride half way on the way in and catch the train for the 2nd half, I always ride all the way home. If I do this I leave the house just before 6am and return at 8pm, the 40 mile return takes me just over 2 hours.
I've done this for 10 years and I'm just used to it, often thought about a job closer to home but I like this job and this company so have stayed where I am. My wife also works long hours (she's a teacher, start the debate...) so it works for us. No kids and no plans for the them so that's not a factor either.
Too many! 45 mins each way. Leave 6.45am, home 6-7 ish.
50 hour week plus commute time.
Either a 7 min drive or 20 min bike ride at 0600 and return journey normally about 1500-30
Its a struggle but I manage.
25 mile each way.
In the car around 40 min each way.
On the bike ,between 1.40-2hr depending how fat I am,windy it is etc.
This year, I've mainly ridden home and back the next day to increase the distance& off road fun .
Benefit of shift work.
4 miles - 15 minutes pedal each way - all year round - the only rule is that if it's peeing down in the morning I can drive - I reckon I've driven to work no more than 10 times in the last year
This is one of those things you don't want to win!
15 minutes bike
10 minutes ferry
1 hour 45 minutes train
20 minutes walking
Each way daily!
Don't even want to add it up for a week. Done this for just under 5 years now, BONKERS
15-20 mins through the park and woods on my bike. One of the big factors when recently changed job, previously had an hour drive each way.
A hellish 10-15 seconds crawling out of bed and getting to the spare bedroom converted into my office.
This is one of those things you don't want to win!
Speak for yourself!
Close to 900 miles over a 5 day week, every week, by car, to get to work
Usually up at around 4:45, on M62 around 5:45 and then on way across 3 counties avoiding most of you lot trying to kill me. Say, 3 hours a day driving.
I should really contribute to more driving threads 😉