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legro
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Research has shown that running to work is bad for you if you work down pit
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RicStern
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Location: Stoke on Trent
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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i walk to work as well. Because the office is opposite the bedroom, across the stairs.
ric |
You've got no excuse for not running to work, even when its raining |
yes, occasionally i run to the office. |
At what intensity do you run? |
at an intensity that makes everything wobble, as i like to run naked to the office, first thing in the morning. i call it the moderately-gentle wobble1. This contrasts to e.g., all-out sprint (not measured in wobbles as i'm now dressed) when i run up the stairs to get the phone.
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RicStern
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Hans Datdodishes
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| You should speak to Pierre Head, this time of the year you should be shuffling your feet rather than running, with some secret strength hopping at the weekend |
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Pacey
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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i ride to work coz if I walked I'd get mugged.
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Pierre Head
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Tory Tim wrote: |
| You should speak to Pierre Head, this time of the year you should be shuffling your feet rather than running, with some secret strength hopping at the weekend |
There are obviously some people who have genuine excuses, so why don't the rest of you do what is called 'The Dawn Patrol'?
Get out by 5.30am, do a couple of hours, then home to shower and eat before going to work.
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Jesse
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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4 days a week, only 10 miles there and back, on 65" fixed.
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scoobydoo
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What a bunch of lightweights. 
I cycle to work because I'm a cyclist.  |
Same here rain, shine, snow, hail ill ride to work can skip al the traffic instead of being caught in ques.
It's a 14 mile round trip if i go strait their and back.but usually add a loop or 2 on the way home. |
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Hans Datdodishes
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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What a bunch of lightweights.
I cycle to work because I'm a cyclist. |
Same here rain, shine, snow, hail ill ride to work can skip al the traffic instead of being caught in ques.
It's a 14 mile round trip if i go strait their and back.but usually add a loop or 2 on the way home. |
I'd hate to see you drive an automatic, it'd be carnage |
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lycramassif
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I ride 3.5 miles at level 4, work has no showers or heating so I get changed out of my lycra at my desk knackered, still asleep and covered in sweat and dead flies!....the girlies just luv it!!! |
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Pierre Head
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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What a bunch of lightweights.
I cycle to work because I'm a cyclist. |
Same here rain, shine, snow, hail ill ride to work can skip al the traffic instead of being caught in ques.
It's a 14 mile round trip if i go strait their and back.but usually add a loop or 2 on the way home. |
I'd hate to see you drive an automatic, it'd be carnage |
I think he drives an Artofax.
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scoobydoo
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Tory Tim wrote: |
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What a bunch of lightweights.
I cycle to work because I'm a cyclist. |
Same here rain, shine, snow, hail ill ride to work can skip al the traffic instead of being caught in ques.
It's a 14 mile round trip if i go strait their and back.but usually add a loop or 2 on the way home. |
I'd hate to see you drive an automatic, it'd be carnage |
Do do cars they damage the environment 
Plus cost too much to run for the us it gets from me. |
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PeteMcCosh
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I don't work.
Although I did ride there most days before I was independently wealthy. |
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snakeeater
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I can only cycle home from work as there are no showers. Its 35 miles away which gives me enough distance to do what I feel like at the time.
I've tried cycling in to work on two occassions and both were a nightmare. The 1st time I got drenched midway (weather girls got that one wrong!) and the 2nd time I got to the disabled bogs where I would normally wash and they were out of order. People at work already think Im a freak in my lycra pants so if they see me changing and washing in the gents bogs...  |
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Cary de Weigh
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[quote="PeteMcCosh"]I don't work.
Although I did ride there most days before I was independently wealthy.[/quote]
Lucky so and so! 
I'm quite encouraged by the results of the poll so far. Most Veloriders cycle to work some or all of the time. Those that don't seem to have valid reasons not to do so. |
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walleyes
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:45 am Post subject: do you cycle to work |
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I would love to but I'm a rep in the truck industry and work all over South East Wales every day visiting customers, delivering trucks, collecting drivers, so just not practical.
Used to ride to work when I was a fitter in the workshops as I was in same place all day/every day. [Hmm I WAS fitter too]. |
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Richard
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i work in the city centre about 2.5 miles from home. I go by car three days a week as my wife works closeby and we take in the anklebiter on two of those days to the nursery. Occasionally I'll run home from work on at least one of those days.
The other two days I'll commute by running or cycling. Cycling in is all downhill so I take it slow so as not to sweat and I'm lucky in that the uni has a sports centre nearby where I can get showered and changed.
It's all about having the stuff to hand at your desk to make it feasible. I have all the stuff I need in my drawers - towel, shower gel, toothpaste, shaving kit,etc and just bring in the stuff by car like shirts,etc when I need to. It's just being organised enough.
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officer bob
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| Cos it's only 3 miles. Rather travel in my car, get home quick, change and get out on the bike. |
I ride 5 miles to work,then do a longer ride home. 5 miles @ 5 a.m. will get less apealing as winter approaches,but leave @ 2p.m.looking forward to a ride in daylight
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Eeyore
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 9:00 am Post subject: |
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| Cos it's only 3 miles. Rather travel in my car, get home quick, change and get out on the bike. |
I ride 5 miles to work,then do a longer ride home. 5 miles @ 5 a.m. will get less apealing as winter approaches,but leave @ 2p.m.looking forward to a ride in daylight |
A few years ago, I rode the 3 miles to and from work every single day for 4 years, no matter what the weather. I got fed up with it in the end, partly because of coping with the half asleep numpties driving to work not giving a sh*t for anyone else on the road. It only takes 10-15 mins to get home in the car, then get changed and out if it's not chucking it down. If it is, I get my tea, have a snooze then onto the turbo. |
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Cary de Weigh
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[quote="officer bob"][quote="Eeyore"]Cos it's only 3 miles. Rather travel in my car, get home quick, change and get out on the bike.[/quote]
I ride 5 miles to work,then do a longer ride home. 5 miles @ 5 a.m. will get less apealing as winter approaches,but leave @ 2p.m.looking forward to a ride in daylight [/quote]
That's the spirit, and I could agree more with your signature. I loved a piece of graffitti I once saw on a motorway bridge: "It's not a race!". |
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