Why Should You Run To Work? | 8 Planning Tips For Running Your Commute

Running to work might just be the most rewarding commuting you can make! If you're tight for training time, wanting to avoid public transport, but your not sure how your going to transport the essentials? Sam is here with some top tips that is going to get you into the office fit and on time!

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What tips do you have for running to work? Let us know 👇

[andrewpassler]

My run commute has been getting out of bed and running as fast as I can to my computer room to not be late to my video conference.

[ryandowney]

Alternatively you could perform a brick session especially when there are sections of your route that are not pedestrian friendly. I have a busy highway that separate me from the neighboring town so I would bike the more precarious sections and then stash my bike at a friends house and run the rest of the way. Thanks for the top tips.

[dimrub]

I used to commute by bike once or twice a week back when I was working from office (before COVID-19), 27 km each way. I managed to arrange for myself 2 laptops, one that is always at work, and another that is always at home, and I kept several sets of clothes at work, occasionally taking them home for laundry on my train days, so I was able to ride light, basically with just a few items fitting into my handlebar bag. I've been forever thinking of trying running to work as well, probably not the whole distance, but I think running light might work here as well, having just a running vest on me.

[jds]

Oh, I run to work in the morning; straight from the bed into my home office because I overslept :D

[MrPimRispens]

It's actually a great idea to run to my busstop, somewhat 6km away. Thanks for the tip!

[panosprogdeath]

i am about 6km to work which is a great distance to do in the morning but there are no showers at work and i live in Greece which is really hot most time of the year so you get the picture. plus i would have to run most of the way in very busy streets, not my favorite thing. i envy those who can do it

[paulmcneil]

can't ride my bike to work in the dead of Canadian winter...but I can run so I swap my bike commute for a run and it works wonderfully.

[jamiefuhrman]

You don't have easy shoes to follow Sam, nice job!

[nicksmith]

😂 Sam Pictor, the jumper hack sums up our years in London!

[dayannabriseno]

This is a thing? Awesome! I thought I was weird for doing this :)

[bentfyhn]

that was just what I needed to hear
I have taken your 10K running program and run after it and wondered what easy running meant now I know it 80% in zone 2 so easy running must be in zone 2? :-) 😁
PS. you make real good videos super.

[alancampbell]

In normal times I run 800m to the subway and then home from the final station (11-15km). I don't need a backpack, because I just take my phone and key with me. The subway is warm enough even in a cold winter, so no additional jacket is needed. Nowadays I do it rarely because I mostly have to carry my computer. Then I run in the home-office lunchbreak.

[oscarbear]

I tried this and I showed up 2 hours late, drenched in sweat, that flopped over passing out infront of my boss. When I came too I was in the ER with a note my late saying, "your fired"

[se]

I'll just stick to bike commuting. I have way too much stuff to carry. Especially in the winter, I have to carry a couple of days clothes and food just in case the highways get closed (I'm a truck driver).

[sparty]

I can't do it, got to get my aerobic capacity up to make the 20 ft run

[fotakisaa]

A physical practice that may be a necessity for some is becoming a fashion and mass activity with the aim of commercializing it, of course. Instead of fighting for 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep and 8 hours of free time to do our running, we sit and talk about self-flagellation as a new fitness trend. Mercy

[Grve]

I wanted to run my commute for years now, but because of the frankly absurd amount of sweating I experience when I just so much as think of physical exercise I never do it. We don't have showers in the office, and it would take me aproximately 20 minutes to air dry, but it would leave a very... let's call it "athletic scent".

[cyklopPL]

Great content, but please, buy the new presenter a 50€ external mic, now the camera mic picks up a lot of wind/background noise

[JustAndrew]

Sadly I can't run to work because I work as a university lecturer and I wear a suit and if I run I will get sweaty and there is no place to change at work