Do You Walk To Work ?

FoxEye · 20 Mar 2021 at 22:43

Bear said:
Yes, I walk up the stairs to my loft room which is my office

I could try driving from my bedroom to the living room (my office), but I'd have to use a Segway, and I think the trip down the stairs would end badly.

teaboy5 · 20 Mar 2021 at 22:53

What's with people using km's? We use miles here.

Reality|Bites · 20 Mar 2021 at 22:59

yet we run the 10k for charity...

Why a pint instead of 562ml when we buy every other drink in metric?

fobose · 20 Mar 2021 at 23:03

It's annoying that we use both! I've just set my huawei health app to use imperial as it does my nut in when it tells me I've walked so many km. Two years that's been bugging me but I did bugger all about it until teaboy5 mentioned it.

Malevolence · 20 Mar 2021 at 23:08

Using both systems is great, it means converting one to t'other is nigh on instantaneous. Me using K for the weather though, well that really ***** with people's heads.

fobose · 20 Mar 2021 at 23:24

You can f'off if your using kelvin for the weather!

randomshenans · 20 Mar 2021 at 23:41

My commute to my office for the last 15 months has been a walk, yes. Possibly 30 second one?

adolf hamster · 21 Mar 2021 at 10:17

40 mins would be a decent enough time for a commute, wouldn't want it any longer than that if i could help it.

recently moved to be much closer to work, so now i'm only 10 mins either way which is nice, although going to other locations/bringing stuff in means sometimes i still have to drive.

watercooledman · 21 Mar 2021 at 10:55

yes takes me about 15 mins, crap when raining though.

omnomnom · 21 Mar 2021 at 11:00

No, i have kids to take to school

gitbags · 21 Mar 2021 at 11:15

I walk a similar distance to work, well will do when my industry opens up again. Quite enjoy it, I live in the south west, right on the coast so it's a pleasant walk most of the year. I'm sure it'll be an interesting walk this year as a couple of hotels along the only main road are hosting the g7.

Bassmansam · 21 Mar 2021 at 11:20

I wish... its 17 miles away. Glad i'm working from home for now. If i do have to go back in the office full time I will look for something closer to home as after experiencing home working, the 1.5 hr commute into London 5 days a week just isn't worth it any more.

Glanza · 21 Mar 2021 at 11:36

No as it's 15miles and there would be no easy way to walk or bike there without being on dual carriageways without a footpath.

Grimley · 21 Mar 2021 at 16:26

I had a couple of jobs where I either walked or cycled to work. Not now though. I could do it but I'm not walking 4 miles at 3am weekdays.

The IPB · 21 Mar 2021 at 19:14

I walk kids to school then walk to work after. Love it. Takes about 40 mins to walk the kids to school and then home again, then another 15 mins to walk from home to work.

Only drive if I am at one of the other campuses that are not within walking distance.

DireEmblem · 21 Mar 2021 at 20:22

My current 'walk' is about 8 meters, but when I'm in the office its more like 1200m.

Meridian · 21 Mar 2021 at 20:51

DanTheMan said:
If I lived 2.1 miles from work, I would walk 90% of the time.

This. I would consider up to three miles a fair commute on foot. Sadly my commute is 30 miles these days. But for nearly twenty years I walked about 1.5 miles to work. I finished that when i was older than the OP.