{"id":4925,"date":"2023-07-21T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2023-07-21T08:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T08:48:12","slug":"walking-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4925","title":{"rendered":"Walking to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My commute changed a few weeks ago &#8211; from a short drive, to a cross-country walk. I had to return my company car as we don&#8217;t do them any more, and I chose not to replace it. So now I&#8217;m starting and ending my day with a walk.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c1n1t0JaNa0\" style=\"border: thin black solid\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/c1n1t0JaNa0\">youtu.be\/c1n1t0JaNa0<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I&#8217;m enjoying it so far. I realise I&#8217;m lucky to live close enough to work for this to be an option, but if you can do something like this, I would recommend it. A walk is a lovely way to start the day &#8211; I&#8217;m in a much better frame of mind to start work after a walk in. And any stresses and annoyances of the work day don&#8217;t seem as bad by the time I get home after a walk back.<\/p>\n<p>My frenetic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyperlapse\">hyperlapse videos<\/a> don&#8217;t really do a good job of capturing what the walk is like. It&#8217;s quiet. So quiet. For most of my journey, the only sound is the wind, bird and insect noises, and the crunch of my boots on gravel. Every day I walk past squirrels, butterflies, birds, cows, pigeons&#8230; most days I see a deer or two. The videos are fun, but you don&#8217;t really get a sense of that from them.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, this post was largely an excuse to play around with timelapse apps. My <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kMDFyMzotzQ\">first attempt was a 28 second blur<\/a>, and my <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7yJJCRW6WO8\">second attempt<\/a> bounced around so much it would make you sea-sick to watch. In my defence, some of those fields are pretty bumpy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450px\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"geolocation\" src=\"\/\/umap.openstreetmap.fr\/en\/map\/commute_942366?scaleControl=false&amp;miniMap=false&amp;scrollWheelZoom=false&amp;zoomControl=true&amp;allowEdit=false&amp;moreControl=true&amp;searchControl=false&amp;tilelayersControl=null&amp;embedControl=false&amp;datalayersControl=true&amp;onLoadPanel=undefined&amp;captionBar=false&amp;captionMenus=false&amp;locateControl=false&amp;editinosmControl=false&amp;starControl=false#13\/51.0120\/-1.3777\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/6kmpa6x18mh5dx1gwtg0w\/walk.gpx?rlkey=99796gl0tgggi6by4nhgzi84k&amp;dl=0\">gpx file &#8211; in case you fancy giving the route a try for yourself<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My commute changed a few weeks ago &#8211; from a short drive, to a cross-country walk. I had to return my company car as we don&#8217;t do them any more, and I chose not to replace it. So now I&#8217;m starting and ending my day with a walk. youtu.be\/c1n1t0JaNa0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}