What does your commute look like?

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This is mine...



Morning ride goes from left to right, with the evening ride simply being the reverse.

As you can see, it's pretty much flat - just a couple of small hills, with the main one being in mile 28 of the round trip, which is nice.

There are, however, 81 sets of traffic lights! That's an average of one set every 330 yards or 54 seconds, so it' essentially one big long interval run.

I only got back into riding a couple of months ago, so hope to lose another couple of stone and try to get the ride time down to an hour each way. Not sure how realistic that is though!

So what do other people's commutes look like?

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Captain Answer said:

How does one do a map with the elevation information?

Mine is done with Endomondo (www.endomondo.com) on a Blackberry Bold which automatically uploads the results to the web. The app is free, and so long as you've got a GPS-enabled Blackberry, iPhone or Android, you can use it.

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Mr Will said:

Mine looks rather similar to the second half of yours: http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/sFBpx-rXWr4

...but faster

Well so it should be faster! You're 15 years my junior, and only doing half the distance!

Plus I stop for the traffic lights!

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thegavster said:

Inspired by this thread I counted the lights on my 13.9 mile commute in this morning, I go from Camden to Twickenham:

100 exactly (and two security barriers at each end of Kensington Palace Gardens).

I'm really starting to wonder if I should be looking at more alternateives on my route...

At the very least, it's got to be nicer to ride through Richmond Park than along the South Circular, surely?