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commuting and crosstraining

  • 25-11-2015 1:30pm
    #1
    zonular
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭


    Hows it going guys just wondering how many of you commute daily and manage to fit in gym/running/etc three days a week on top of the commute.

    I'm commuting swords to city centre and just don't have the willpower.


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  • #2
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I commute min. 20km daily (exactly the opposite direction) and over the last few months managed to extend this to approx. 40km daily.

    Yesterday and today I have managed to run 5k on the lunch break, but there is a shower in my office - otherwise I wouldn't even think of this.
    just don't have the willpower.

    No advice from others will help much with this I am afraid.

    I didn't have loads of willpower either, especially for running, but increasingly shrinking amount of free time (two kids...) and body weight slowly creeping up the scales made it much easier recently.


  • #3
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    I'm a fair weather commuter as they come, but why not use your commute as your training? I would hammer in and out from Dublin 15 to Dublin 2 rather than have a saunter. Like Alex, had a shower in the office so could manage it. Sometimes the commute home would kill me just as I exited the Phoenix Park because you cannot but have commuter races going through there. I'd always have a mars bar with me to get me the last few k home. Sometimes I'd basically do a brick session and head straight out for a run when I got home but I couldn't manage that these days.

    Not much use to you if your gym work is of the non cardio variety though.


  • #4
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    but why not use your commute as your training?

    This.

    Strava helps :)


  • #5
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    I train three days a week on top of commuting. At the moment its two runs and one bike session. The trick for me is to put your runners on or set up the turbo the minute you get in the door from work. If you even sit down for even one minute, it gets a lot harder.


  • #6
    NeedMoreGears
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭NeedMoreGears


    i've a similar commute to you OP.

    Summer - 4 x Commutes plus one longer 3-4hr spin at the weekend (mostly 3hr), skipping out 1 weekend a month. No extra gym or running

    Winter - 3 or 4 easier Commutes, 1 five-a-side, 2 non-cardio gym and 2hr weekend spins ,again skipping 1 weekend a month

    In both cases, I try to build in some rest days but I always find commuting in the winter harder. I generally take it a bit easier as well and I'll sometimes miss the odd spin as I'm not interested in "proper" on-bike training so to speak.


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