Jabez Cabahug (left) together with his bike at Fort San Pedro and Ryan Oledan (proper) together with his bike alongside Colon Road. | Contributed images
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Commuting to work could also be a trouble with visitors being a day by day occurence on most of Metro Cebu’s streets.
That is felt particularly right now with the opening of lessons in colleges, including to the amount of autos and commuters on the roads.
As a substitute of being burdened and anxious if you will get to work on time when car you might be using on will get caught in visitors, one can both journey on these motorcycle-for-hires, which may get you quicker to work however it’s important to spend extra with the next fare.
One other resolution to that is to rise up very early and depart dwelling when the roads are nonetheless away from autos.
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Nonetheless right here’s a very good different resolution to this. How about dusting off your bikes parked in your properties and pedal your method to work.
It’s a great way to train as you go to work and lower your expenses on the identical time particularly because you don’t must spend in your fare.
After all, train may help decrease your levels of cholesterol, and assist enhance your psychological well being by assuaging stress and boosting your temper.
At present, August 1, which known as the “Cycle to Work Day,” listed below are two Cebuanos who share their expertise and views on using a motorbike to work.
Jabez Cabahug
Jabez Cabahug, 21, a contract photographer and IT agency worker.
Cabahug, who lives in Barangay Tejero in Cebu Metropolis, rides his bike to his workplace at IT Park.
He mentioned that he may minimize his journey time to work by half if he would journey a motorbike.
He mentioned that when he would commute to work it could take 30 or extra minutes relying on the visitors on the roads of town.
Cabahug additionally cited different benefits of biking to work.
“I used to be dropping pounds whereas having enjoyable doing it and on the identical time saving cash,” he mentioned.
He simply has one recommendation for many who choose to journey their bicycles to work: “Simply journey protected as a result of it’s harmful on the market.”
He was referring to 1 using a bicycle sharing the roads with motorists.
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Except for the benefits, he additionally cites the challenges of biking to work, which is primarily when he began biking to work which is waking up actually early.
“It was powerful waking up early nevertheless it helped me handle my time much more,” he mentioned.
Using bicycle to work: Ryan Oledan
Ryan Oledan, 21, a laborer, who lives in Liloan city in northern Cebu, however, rides his bicycle to his work website, most days of the week.
“It’s a sensible choice to cycle to work,” Oledan mentioned, who would get up early from his dwelling to take that 40 minute journey on his bicycle to work, shares the identical views with Cabahug.
This cuts his journey time when commuting to work on the North Reclamation Space in Cebu Metropolis, which he says is about greater than an hour journey from his hometown.
He additionally cites three different important benefits of using a motorbike to work.
“The primary is to maintain my weight reduction which is the primary that I’ll always remember for the reason that day I began biking. The second is rising your vitality you’ll really feel a lift in vitality after only a few rides as biking will get your blood flowing. The final one is stress reduction over the long run,” he mentioned.
“Biking can turn into a daily outlet for stress reduction and it’s serving to me to domesticate mindfulness and syempre sense of journey,” Oledan mentioned.
“Biking opens up the chance for exploration and journey, resulting in new experiences and recollections,” he additional mentioned.
So what do you assume Ka-Siloys? Able to seize that bike and having fun with pedaling your method to work?
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