anyone commute 15miles+?

fatsmoker

Foolishly perhaps I sold my car recently so my 2 or 3 days full commute of 30 mile RT and 2 or 3 days of driving half and cycling half has become 5 full days of cycling the 30 mile RT. It's been all right so far. I take it much easier, addding nearly 10 minutes to the journey time, spend a lot more time in the little ring spinning and don't feel any more tired. Weight loss has started again though, so happy with that.

MiddleRinger

I commute five days per week over a 32 mile return journey, takes an hour in the morning and about ten minutes longer on the way home. It was exhausting at first but your body soon adapts and you learn to eat more food and take it easy when you need to! You can't race every day...

mrkev83

I have tried a few times to do my 16 miles each way commute and had it down to under an hour each way but either side of a 12 and a half hour shift I've not enough energy to keep going so stopped

I was driving half way and cycling which made it easier but still either side of the shift it's a killer

Rye225

Just started commuting by bicycle.

I cycle from Harrow to Shoreditch.

15.4 miles each way.

Along the Grand Union Canal!

imatfaal

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19746022#p19746022]Rye225[/url] wrote:

Just started commuting by bicycle.

I cycle from Harrow to Shoreditch.

15.4 miles each way.

Along the Grand Union Canal!

Enjoy - should be an amazing commute. The canals can be "interesting" during the summer when there are lots of peds and loads of new cyclists - but this time of year, especially after dark, hopefully you will have a bit of room to breath

ilovegrace

30 hilly miles a day every day rain or shine , apart from !
Ice (Once last year)
Gales (not yet but nearly)
Toothache (three days)
Plus 50 - 70 on a Sunday, Saturday is a day of housework and rest.
9.00 to bed most nights ,up at 5.45 am , day in day out ,Why ? If only I knew.
regards
ILG

term1te

37 km each way, but only about 50% of the time. I'll take the train if it's really wet, and I travel for work a fair bit too, just got back from Panama this evening. In the summer I sometimes take a hilly detour and add another 20 km on to the home leg. Best way to wind down from a day at the fun factory.

Fat-Boy-Roubaix

Up at 5.30am two cuppas out the door by 6.30am 15 miles into work. Milky coffee 3 slices of toast 1 peanut butter, one honey one butter - leave work @ 3.30pm ish and have fish veg and 4/5 new potatoes. Plus a 3/4 biscuits in the evening. Starting to worry I don't eat enough reading all you greedy lot!

50 years old a tad overweight but doesn't really make me tired anymore, sleep well. My main tip is get a bike that can cope with all weathers, and the right clothing. If possible an air dryer at work to dry your kit and if you can take a weeks worth of clothes in to work at the weekend. Try and commute as light as possible, you the bike and the rucksack!

I designed everything around commuting everyday, even down to having a crappy old £300 banger at work so if I need to get home fast I can or nip out to Evans at work for emergency tyres :-)

It is definitely a mindset once you are in the swing it doesn't occur to me to take the car. I would go sar as to say if I moved it would have to be 15-16 miles away from work. I couldn't maintain adding miles and I definitely prefer my cycling with purpose so suits me.

prawny

My last monthly train pass finishes on the 11th of december, so I'm spending the last couple of weeks building up to my old 20mile each way commute.

Going well so far, taking me an hour and a half each way, when I was doing it regular 5 years ago it was taking 1.05 in 1.12 home so will be working towards beating that again. I think I've picked the perfect time to start the wind and rain have been horrific so I'm hoping it's all plain sailing from here. I've got no other option of commuting once the pass ends, a return train ticket is £9.20 so unless it's horrific its the bike every day.

I'm trying not to eat much more, just being a bit smarter about what and when I eat, it'll be a struggle for a bit but I've got plenty of fat to burn through.

thiscocks

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19752594#p19752594]Fat-Boy-Roubaix[/url] wrote:

Up at 5.30am two cuppas out the door by 6.30am 15 miles into work. Milky coffee 3 slices of toast 1 peanut butter, one honey one butter - leave work @ 3.30pm ish and have fish veg and 4/5 new potatoes. Plus a 3/4 biscuits in the evening. Starting to worry I don't eat enough reading all you greedy lot!

50 years old a tad overweight

30 miles a day ride-You eat two bits of toast a day, and your counting the number of potatoes you have in the evening but your overweight!??? Think theres something not quite right there.

I do the same miles av 3 days a week and eat alot more than that but try to include fruit and veg as well as some sugary stuff and I am certainly not overweight. Yes I could be really strict and loose another couple of kg but im not about to race in a grand tour stage race so whats the point.

N1TRO

Speaking of weight, I'd hazard a guess and say that muscles are heavier than fat. So if you're working out, lose some fat and build up muscles, there might not be that much of a difference.

That make any sense? Anyway, I don't really mind much what the scale says. Not that I'm overweight, but how you actually feel and what you can achieve with your body is more important imo.

JGC

I cycle commute 20 miles (round trip four days a week in winter. In summer, I do two days of 20 miles and two days of 35 miles. Having read through this thread, I have decided that I definitely need more sleep, as this may stop me from eating quite so much! My weight is pretty stable, but I could do with being at 5 kg lighter. I do a fair amount of exercise in addition to commuting. But I eat way more than a lot of people on this thread, so I am thinking that if I could get more like 9-10 hours of sleep, I wouldn't feel the need to keep eating to keep awake. Oops.

peteco0403

I only commute for 6 miles!
Taking longer routes most of the times but I wish I live further away!

redbikejohn

My 25 mile each way came to an end got hurt and got lazy. .......and now fat again. Bollocking Bollox. Got to get back into in Jan as my first race is in Feb

andyeb

Just started a 60 mile round trip commute from Guildford to London a few times a week, after a break of a few years doing the same. Also having the "eating everything in sight" problem, so interested to read your responses about things improving over time.

I've been thinking about going in fasted and then having a cooked breakfast on arrival. Trouble is I generally find fasted training makes me ill, when I'm generally pretty healthy otherwise.

surrey_commuter

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19776167#p19776167]andyeb[/url] wrote:

Just started a 60 mile round trip commute from Guildford to London a few times a week, after a break of a few years doing the same. Also having the "eating everything in sight" problem, so interested to read your responses about things improving over time.

I've been thinking about going in fasted and then having a cooked breakfast on arrival. Trouble is I generally find fasted training makes me ill, when I'm generally pretty healthy otherwise.

When I started doing a 40 mile round trip I spent the day refuelling to get home. After a couple of months was just making sure I was eating pasta/rice at lunchtime. Into London I am sure some of the initial tiredness is mental

cycleclinic

I do about 250 miles a week sometimes more commuting. Add sundays club runs or events on and you just get used it. Eating alot helps alot of carbs too. Making some rides recovery helps alot too. If I am feeling leg achy in the morning I simply back off and soft pedal keeping my hear rate down and limit the efforts on hills and I feel alot better on the ride home.

Been commuting since last September and I have ramped up to this mileage that's important too.

Ed_P

I used to commute from Brighton to Eastbourne last summer; at first I was constantly tired but it is true that your body quickly adapts and it is great for fitness. The only problem that I had was that I ate like a horse!