Total Commuting Miles

rower63

Saw this in various news sites. I'm pretty sure many of us are well ahead of that guy's 44,000 mile total commuting distance. I reckon I'm nearly three times his at approx 116,000 miles* .

What are your numbers? CW even suggests anyone who beats their guy contacts them, perhaps they can be pointed to this thread when it's had a few replies.




*Assuming I did 90% journeys by bike from 1990-2011 from 10 miles out which gives
21x0.9x(365-30)x5/7x10x2 = 90,450
And since 2011 it’s been 19 miles each way and more like at least 95% of the time so
3x0.95x(365-30)x5/7x19x2 = 25,914
90,450 + 25,914 = approx 116,365 miles commuting
edit: corrected arithmetic!

UndercoverElephant

Yeah, his total for 15 years is a little low, really. Even I've done 27,000 miles in that past five and I'm never going to trouble the top of our stats board.

gbsahne001

15 years 40k, that's really low....last 5 years including this years anticipated mileage = 63k

iPete

I'm on 42k in 5 years, take about 5k off for non-commuting.

vermin

gbsahne wrote:

really low

Perhaps a slightly subjective analysis, from the perspective of a nutcase.

The Rookie

I aim for 1K miles a year as
1/ Commute is only 6.7 miles each way and I'm not moving house just to make it longer....my wife's commute mind is even smaller, about 400 yards.
2/ Work overseas a lot so at best can expect to be in the office for 3 weeks in four.
3/ Sometimes due to other commitments I do have to use the car, though it's rare.

bendertherobot

iPete wrote:

I'm on 42k in 5 years, take about 5k off for non-commuting.

Pretty much the same here. Even if I take 10k off but the time we get to 15 years................

Agent57

I reckon I'm on a mere 13,300.

1988-1997 walked
1998-2000 car			
2000-2005 worked from home
2006      car/train/walked
2006-2007 cycled 4 miles round trip for 28 weeks: 560
2007-2008 cycled 4 miles round trip for 70 weeks: 1400
2009      cycled 4 miles round trip for 37 weeks: 740
2009-2011 cycled 10 miles round trip for 60 weeks: 3000
2011      cycled 4 miles round trip for 19 weeks: 380
2011-2013 cycled/train 10 miles round trip for 85 weeks: 4250
2013      cycled 4 miles round trip for 24 weeks: 480
2013-date cycled 10 miles round trip for 50 weeks: 2500

Squawk

Just shy of 5k miles in 14 months, pretty much all commuting. I suppose it's a bit premature to project 15 years into the future, but it doesn't seem like anything worth shouting about. I still feel the need to track my mileage and costs in a spread sheet to see if this cycling lark actually saves me cash (£626 to the good to date, assuming I'd have taken the train each day).

asprilla

I don't count myself as high milage rider but in the three years is logged miles on the SCS tables I managed 18,500 miles. 44k isn't a lot.

CiB

Actual logged miles from 2005 - present and a bit of a geustimate of miles before then from 78 - 2005, limiting it to just commute miles, shows roughly 30,000 and is reasonable within a margin of error and no-one being able to show otherwise, so that'll do.