Will this commute be too exhausting?

[shootingstar]

I don't get the thing with Yin and motorpacing. You've brought it up in at least one other post. I figure it's a joke, but it keeps coming up. If you clarify that part of your question, the situation will be clearer.

Like tulip & others: maybe you're a new mini Jeannie Longo or Lance Armstrong. Show us a pic of yourself and bike.

Motorpacing? Unless there are congested car traffic jams along the way and bikes can get on ahead while car drivers sit around? I guess you enjoy concentrating on a car and 'beating' it?

I already cycle 42 kms. daily. It's a route I do daily with a few 4-10% hills...and I'm looking for work..though not on the bike. On weekends I do longer distances, that's when I allow myself to play more.

That's enough cycling for me daily during the weekdays. And I'm willing to bet my route is more beautiful than yours, because of the mountains and ocean views I get along the way...since I'm not focusing on a car ..for motorpacing.

In the past, I spent over 3 hrs. daily with real work commuting time-- a blend of cycling, light rapid transit train, bus and then walking 15 min. So I can speak with (pained) feeling of what it means to spend so much time commuting like this for...3 consecutive yrs. I justified it because it was a contract job..to earn money. Looking back, I probably sacrificed abit of my mental health at the time. 2 weekends ago, we cycled this same work-commuting route completely by bike on a Sunday when the traffic wasn't so frantic. Guess what the real round trip distance between home and my old workplace if I had biked it: 102 kms. Yup. Since bike commuting trip must avoid some illegal highway areas for bikes, etc.

Set your life priorities properly...and remember your longevity on the road to ride/commute happily and safely daily.