Jabez Cabahug (left) along with his bike at Fort San Pedro and Ryan Oledan (proper) along with his bike alongside Colon Avenue. | Contributed photographs
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Commuting to work could also be a trouble with site visitors being a each day occurence on most of Metro Cebu’s streets.
That is felt particularly at the moment with the opening of courses in faculties, including to the quantity of automobiles and commuters on the roads.
As a substitute of being harassed and anxious if you will get to work on time when car you’re using on will get caught in site visitors, one can both journey on these motorcycle-for-hires, which may get you quicker to work however it’s a must to spend extra with the next fare.
One other resolution to that is to stand up very early and go away dwelling when the roads are nonetheless away from automobiles.
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Nonetheless right here’s a very good different resolution to this. How about dusting off your bikes parked in your houses and pedal your technique to work.
It’s a great way to train as you go to work and lower your expenses on the similar 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 the moment, August 1, which is 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 stated that he might reduce his journey time to work by half if he would journey a motorbike.
He stated that when he would commute to work it will take 30 or extra minutes relying on the site visitors on the roads of town.
Cabahug additionally cited different benefits of biking to work.
“I used to be reducing weight whereas having enjoyable doing it and on the similar time saving cash,” he stated.
He simply has one recommendation for many who decide to journey their bicycles to work: “Simply journey secure as a result of it’s harmful on the market.”
He was referring to at least one 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 robust waking up early however it helped me handle my time much more,” he stated.
Driving 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 web site, most days of the week.
“It’s a sensible choice to cycle to work,” Oledan stated, 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 most 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 because the day I began biking. The second is growing your power you’ll really feel a lift in power after just some rides as biking will get your blood flowing. The final one is stress reduction over the long run,” he stated.
“Biking can change into an everyday outlet for stress reduction and it’s serving to me to domesticate mindfulness and syempre sense of journey,” Oledan stated.
“Biking opens up the chance for exploration and journey, resulting in new experiences and recollections,” he additional stated.
So what do you assume Ka-Siloys? Able to seize that bike and having fun with pedaling your technique to work?
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