Hauling butt to work each day can sometimes feel like an endless cycle — especially if that’s your mode of transportation. Such is the case for super commuter Alex Heatzig, who biweekly bicycles into the office, burning upwards of 2,200 calories during his three-hour jaunts. “I commute 50 miles to work by bike,” said the triathlete , a project manager from San Francisco, California, in a viral TikTok video.
Heatzig’s in the number of no-limit 9-to-5ers who routinely take extreme measures to travel long distances for a paycheck outside of their hometowns. Super-commuting hairdresser Kaitlin Jay, 30, drops over $1,000 to fly the 700 miles between Charlotte, North Carolina, to her Upper West Side place of employment every other week. Breadwinning dad Kyle Rice, an EMS tech specialist, shells out $1,500 a month to hop trains from New Castle, Delaware, to NYC’s financial district for his in-office days at the job.
But for Heatzig, rather than sitting for a 90-minute bus ride or taking the hour-long drive in his own car, biking begets the best benefits. “It’s the most time-efficient way to get a workout in,” the helmeted millennial told his more than 35,000 viewers while huffing it on a two-wheeler. He kicks off his superhuman-like super commutes around 5:45 a.
m., cruising at an average speed of approximately 18 miles per hour, to arrive at his desk just before the shift begins, per his series of impressive posts. “My afternoons aren’t full of anxiety about �.
