JIM BATES / THE SEATTLE TIMES
David Treadwell runs and catches the bus thwart the 520 bridge on his exercise commute between home on Queen Anne and work in Redmond.
David Treadwell, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Live Platform Services, covers up to 12 miles of the distance between his Seattle home and body headquarters in Redmond on foot. He takes the bus according to the balance of the commute — typically the span of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge. This unusual run-bus replace is featured in a profile today by Seattle Times reporter Richard Seven.
He’s not the only tech executive getting to work this way. Brian Crowley, CEO of BSQUARE in Bellevue, told me about his bike commute during a recent interview.
I talked with Treadwell about his commute last fall at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. I occasionally run or bike commute to act myself and the experience Treadwell has gathered on his blog, separately pertaining to logistics, is helpful.
He’s furthermore recruited other Microsoft employees to exercise replace, including Susan Ashlock, a software engineer at Microsoft, and Frank Shaw, an exec by Waggener Edstrom, Microsoft’s primary PR firm.
In his statement, Seven includes main reasons Treadwell gives for trying an exercise commute:
Time: There not seems enough so why fool away it sitting in gridlock?
Health: Instead of dictum you don’familiarily have time to exercise before or after work, exercise for the time of your commute. Money: Save on gas and parking. Stress: Instead of clutching your steering wheel, recommend, live and relax. Environment: It’session distressfully to find a lighter environmental footprint than two feet.
Original text: http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2009/01/02/microsofties_run_bus_to_work.html
