Travel time on bike & walking for 2.3 miles???

Question

in August i am moving to Austin to go to college, but since i dont have enough credits to go to the University so i will be attending a community college which is around 2.3 miles (according to mapquest) from where i am staying, and around .8 miles to the Universty , well the center of it (according to Google Maps)

anyways i will be going through the university to get the community college (2.3 miles, according to mapquest), instead of drving and taking the freeway to the college, which is a little bit faster (2.68 according to mapquest)

i want do it b/c where i currently live, Houston, the community college is a 30 minute DRIVE, and it takes up a lot of my gas so i have to refill every week

instead of driving there i want to walk or ride my bike there

should i do it??

whats the travel time walking?

whats the travel time riding a bike?

driving time is 6 minutes

*** i also want to do it so i can get in shape, since i am 5'11 and weigh 185****

Answer 1

Assuming an average walking speed of 3mph (I have measured this by holding a GPS in my hand and walking at a normal to brisk pace) it would take 46 minutes to do 2.3 miles.

Assuming you're a pretty fast biker and can do 20mph, 2.3 miles will take you 7 minutes although your speed is likely to be lower than 20mph.