Commuting Distance?

[Melalvai]

3.3 miles each way. But, I do errands & such, so I average 14 miles a day.
My recreational riding per week doubles the number of miles I ride (~100 miles/week total). But that tends to be longer rides, less often. 100 miles/week is a lot and I am getting a lot of flack for it both at home and at work, so I suspect & hope that number will drop with the temperature.

[coyote]

I've been trying to increase my distance so the shortest route is 3 miles and the longest is 12. I like to commute in bike cloths when its hot or wet or too cold and regular cloths the rest of the time. But that may change to since I'm trying to get more miles in.

[Ebet]

I wear work clothes. Commuting has made me modify the work clothes so they are as comfortable as possible, which is nice at work too.

[susiej]

My commute is 1 to 3.5 miles one way, depending on the train station I ride to, which depends on how late I'm running. It takes as long to bike to the closest station as it does to drive. I wear work clothes, because I don't sweat very much in the morning, and my office is pretty casual. A co-worker bikes about 6 miles each way to the office, a second about 9 (he's a triathlete).

The "vision" (as one of our project managers says, I usually say "fantasy") is for both my husband and I to bike one way to the train station and both to drive one way to the day care (near the station 3.5 miles from us). I'd bike in the morning, he'd drive and drop off our son; we'd reverse on the way home. Drivers are too angry to make using the bike trailer safe.

I love my commute. It's early enough that the traffic is pretty thin, and I feel energized when I get to the station.

[northstar]

I wear bike clothes. It's just more comfortable for me.

[RoseC]

My commute is too long for it to make sense to wear anything but bike clothes. Not to mention that I pretty much *always* manage to give myself a chain ring tattoo when I ride, no matter how hard I try to prevent it...

[Voodoo Sally]

I ride about 8 miles to work each way.

I don't push it, so I don't work up a big sweat. I wear casual clothes, which I then wear at work. It's just easier to not have to change clothes. If they're somewhat sweaty, they dry soon enough.

[Melalvai]

Not to mention that I pretty much *always* manage to give myself a chain ring tattoo when I ride, no matter how hard I try to prevent it...

You know, I was having a terrible time with chainring tattoos, and I was trying to be so careful. Suddenly they just stopped and I don't know why. I don't know what I'm doing differently. I thought maybe I was keeping my bike cleaner, but tonight I had a little oops getting on & off, and got a nice tattoo, so I think it's that I finally got more graceful or something. It took months.

[crumpincommuter]

The name pretty much implies the connection to this thread..... The commute varies between 30+- 40+, depending on weather and route. I've got the distinct pleasure of having the majority of the ride parelleling some of the most picturesque landscape in Ct, so on beautiful days the longer the better.

Last year was really the first year, doing it on my road bike; but combination of back pack and road bike posture was too much. Not to mention the first "ding" from some boob at the bike rack, sent me over the edge! So invested a few bucks in a nice commuter bike (Specialized Globe City) with racks and self generating lights. It's already paid for itself; rather than paying for gas, parking.

Spread the good word- CT (and Hartford area) slowly becoming a bike friendly community-YEAH!

[marybee]

I commute 18 miles one way, then I take the bus home, but that's another 4 miles from my job, so grand total of 22 miles. Ride in takes about 1.5 hours, because of traffic lights, stop signs, and hills. I do this 2 or 3 times a week in season (not when it gets cold or the days are short, since I hate biking in the semi-dark...) I love love love the ride in, much of it in the countryside with little traffic-- I've seen deer, pheasants, grouse, and all manner of small wildlife on my commute, I listen to the birds, I used to listen to my iPod but I sort of got away from that, just like to think & enjoy the ride. I wear bike clothes because I get all sweaty but fortunately there's a shower at my workplace.
I plan to take early retirement next year and work at home. The only downside to that, I see, is that I won't be able to commute to work!