I drive 53 miles to work, usually once or twice a week, and then go home by bus. It takes about three hours. I live in San Francisco and work for a tech company in South Bay. I drive back with a group; We live in the same area and have a few meeting points on the way.
My first bike pendulum was on a cold November morning in 2022. I was not prepared. It was zero degrees and my toes and fingers freeze. Then I got some real gloves and bicycle surpluses. When I continued with the group, I slowly got fitter. I have done about 80 trips since then.
When I’m to work, I get up at 5.15 a.m. and meet the other drivers at 6 a.m. We take people on the way and come to work at 8.45 a.m. I shower in the office and am at my desk shortly after 9 a.m.
Usually approximately 10 of us go together. Not everyone works in the same company, so people will hang out in certain places, but we usually ride and chat together.
The route is quite scenic. My favorite part overlooks a pelvis. Often you can see how the sun rises there – it is quite magical. We also saw how deer drove alongside us in the forest. I appreciate such moments.
There are two routes of about a mile each, where we have to climb the highway. The hairy part of the trip is when we approach work and share the street with drivers who rush to work and school.
If I don’t drive, I catch a bus that takes an hour and 45 minutes. It’s less pleasant, but I wouldn’t want to go into every day. It would lose something of this miracle and become something I have to do instead of something I can do.
This has changed as I think about my commuting. After that I am a maximum of the whole day and I’m super productive. I find these morning trips therapeutic. On days when I don’t drive, I feel the difference. If I have to miss a trip, I get heavy Fomo.
At the beginning of 2023 I started working from my house in the Peak district to my office in Manchester. I didn’t get on my way, but I am an ultrarunner and I struggled to fit my training. When a friend suggested that I ran to work, I found it a great idea.
I run a marketing company in Manchester and every Monday I will get the train with a suitcase full of clothes. From Tuesday to Friday I run to work and change when I’m there. I have made it consistent since this first run – I think I missed it twice.
The distance is 21 km, so it’s a half marathon. I don’t always run all the way. I give myself four options – 12 km, 16 km, 18 km or 21 km. I often train for events, so it depends on my training and how I feel. It is time if I traveled anyway, so I feel targeted. It is a positive way to start my day. I do it every morning, regardless of snow, frost, ice cream, violent rain, whatever. There are no negotiations. I just go. Packing the suitcase on Sunday and the work on Monday is an intention for the week.
I stand out of bed, put on my running clothes and I was out of the door at 5:30 a.m. and came to the office around 7 a.m. When everyone else arrives at 8:30 a.m., I had time to work for the day and solve problems – part of it happened while running and a lot happened when I’m alone at my desk.
The route I lead is not very interesting – it is on a main street that gives me a feeling of security. I start in my village with my head burner – it is usually dark. Then I come to the A6 and run through the different cities.
It is rare for you to have an hour and a half if it is only you and your thoughts. There were times when I found it in my head in my head that I started running while running, or I will be extremely happy because it is suddenly easy in the morning. Sometimes I think about a certain meeting, a deadline or a difficult conversation that I have to have. I come to the office and feel energetic and full of ideas. The hour after getting in is my most productive.
I am currently moving to the Peak District, so I have to repeat my route, which will now be a little more than 30 km.
I will definitely do the full at some point.
If my shuttle traffic was in traffic or got a late train every morning, I would feel very different. Instead, it authorizes it. I am impatient to start my day. This gave me confidence and resilience. It turns the way I see myself. Every morning I open the front door and I never closed it and didn’t think today, not today.
I live in London, Ontario, in Canada and work in New York City as a fashion design professor at the Parsons School of Design. My shuttle traffic includes driving to Detroit Airport, which takes about two and a half hours. I have a pass that accelerates the border crossing from Canada to America, then I fly from Detroit to Laguardia in New York. From there I either get the U -Bahn or a taxi to me.
The trip takes about seven hours. I leave the house at 9 a.m. and I am at the airport in New York around 4 p.m. On the way home I leave the work at 2.40 p.m., start a flight at 5 p.m. and come home at 10 p.m.
I have been doing this shuttle traffic for two and a half years, flown on Monday and returned on Thursday evening. I prefer it because my life in Ontario is settled – I have two children aged 14 and 16 and I am happily married.
Since I have a place in New York, I only take a backpack. But sometimes I’m looking for a shirt or something and I don’t know which country it is in. On the way I listen to podcasts and audio books. I will sometimes have meetings or I just call a friend.
I’ve worked that way for a long time. I don’t think my children miss me, especially because they are older. We joke that I am like a husband of the 1950s – I come home and don’t know where something is. When I’m at home, I cook and contribute to the household, but my husband holds the rest of the time.
I am aware that my commuting is terrible. I hope that my job has a bit offset and I may have an impact on future fashion professionals. I teach and research oversized fashion and I am interested in sustainability. I love my job. If I didn’t do it, it would be difficult to do this work. I don’t like my shuttle traffic, but I don’t hate it. When I tell people, they are like: “You do it What? “It’s ridiculous how extreme it is, but somehow it works.
I am the manager of two hotels in Mürren, a mountain village in Switzerland that is located under the Schilthorn summit. It is not possible to get to reach by car-it is a car-free village, so you have to get the Schilthornbahn cable car there as I get to work.
I live in the Kiental Valley and drive to the cable car that begins in the village of Stechelberg. First I get one to Gimmelwald, another traffic -free village. This part is the steepest. It goes over the Via Ferrata, a cliff edge that you can hike. The second part of the trip leads me from Gimmelwald to Mürren.
It is a beautiful place with breathtaking views, even though I was afraid of height when I started this job, so I stood in the middle of the cabin. After four years I am very used to it – and the prospects are great.
On the way back, when it is dark, you can see Wengen, the next village, illuminated everything. If it is snowing, you can’t see anything – it is like traveling through clouds. The rope car still drives when it rains or snowing. It will only stop if there is a bad storm that happens a few times a year.
I can’t imagine working in a city like Zurich or Bern. I like being in the mountains, so I’m glad to do my job and shuttle traffic.
When people live in such areas, they sometimes don’t see the beauty that is around them. But thanks to the cable car, I can enjoy the view every day and make the best of it.
When I was 12 years old, I started tonate. My brother learned it at the Circus School and I would try his unicycle. After a few weeks I could do it and I haven’t stopped since then.
I work as an engineer in the naval sector and started this job four years ago. At first I settled by bike, but I quickly realized that I could do it on my unicycle instead. I’ve done that since then – I ride my unicycle to work every day, Monday to Friday.
I live in Cherbourg in France, which is located on Normandy, and the bike path follows the border of the city, which is located along the coast. If I get closer to the dock, I can see all fishing boats unloaded. I also see some really nice sunrises.
The route is 6 km per route, so it is 12 km per day and 60 km per week. From my house it is less than 1 km to get to a bike path, and then I am most of the trip, apart from about 1 km on the street. It is very flat, so it is ideal for unicycling. Depending on the wind and how fast I drive it takes between 13 and 20 minutes. I go back to 4 p.m. or 5 p.m. and I am back within 20 minutes, but if it is a nice day, I will make a longer loop on the way back.
I like the middle part of the route because it is a wide bike path with good terrain that is really flat. I can have a little fun and go faster. I love to overtake bicycles and scooters, especially electric bikes – it feels like a performance. I also like to be on the bike path and see all the cars in traffic.
If the weather is really stormy or windy and I don’t feel safe, I sometimes have to go to work. Usually there is a lot of traffic, especially on the way home – it can take twice as long as if I were on my unicycle.
The trick of entering and going out is to practice. It feels difficult because your brain has to understand it, but if you do a lot, your brain suddenly is: “Oh ok, I understand it.”
My father works in the same company as me and people often go to him and say: “Is your son the guy with the unicycle?” On my shuttle traffic I get a few funny looks of people or they say things like: “You have lost a bike!” They try to be funny, but I have heard it often.
I find to ride my unicycle to have a lot more fun than ride my bike, even if I’m only on a flat street. I can also go pretty quickly – I think the fastest thing I did is 38 km / h. My average speed is approximately 27 km / h. It is faster than driving and enables me to move my body, get fresh air and take a nice break between work and at home. It is a really relaxing part of my day and it is fun what I think is the most important.
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