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My usual work commute is about 4.5 miles and it takes me about 35-40 minutes to bike it. (There are a lot of traffic lights.) So I'm used to doing ~9mi/day (sometimes a little bit more if my evening activities are off my usual commute route, but that usually didn't add a lot of mileage to my commute).
After we moved to WFH, I attempted to simulate my commute by going about halfway and then coming back. (I don't get to indoor rock climb during quarantine, but I wanted to give my body most of the physical activity it was used to.)
Then it occurred to me to explore the bike path along the river just north of me.
And then I started doing routes into the more suburban area north of me (as opposed to the more urban areas I'm used to commuting through to my south).
So, I settled on a route that takes me 35-40min round trip. Which I've actually been doing 3 times a day (pre-work, post-work, and lunch break) most days. Turns out it's 3.5mi outbound -- so I've been doing 7mi in the time it used to take me to do 4.5 mi because it's such a direct route and there's so much less traffic now. So I'm doing 21mi most days.
There's also a longer route that takes me about 80-90min and is 6.5mi outbound. I did that once a day on my staycation last week -- except the really nice Sunday 2 Sundays ago I did it twice. So I accidentally did 26mi in one day? Which feels less ridiculous now that I've realized I'm doing 21mi most days.
After we moved to WFH, I attempted to simulate my commute by going about halfway and then coming back. (I don't get to indoor rock climb during quarantine, but I wanted to give my body most of the physical activity it was used to.)
Then it occurred to me to explore the bike path along the river just north of me.
And then I started doing routes into the more suburban area north of me (as opposed to the more urban areas I'm used to commuting through to my south).
So, I settled on a route that takes me 35-40min round trip. Which I've actually been doing 3 times a day (pre-work, post-work, and lunch break) most days. Turns out it's 3.5mi outbound -- so I've been doing 7mi in the time it used to take me to do 4.5 mi because it's such a direct route and there's so much less traffic now. So I'm doing 21mi most days.
There's also a longer route that takes me about 80-90min and is 6.5mi outbound. I did that once a day on my staycation last week -- except the really nice Sunday 2 Sundays ago I did it twice. So I accidentally did 26mi in one day? Which feels less ridiculous now that I've realized I'm doing 21mi most days.