NIH bikes to work

Episode # 99
Uploaded: May 23, 2012
Running Time: 1:45:14

CROWN: From the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this is CLINICAL CENTER RADIO.

(Nat audio bridge: Could we have had a more beautiful morning for biking to work? I don't think so!)

CROWN: Hundreds of bicyclists gathered on NIH's Bldg. 1 front lawn area, a pit stop for this year's Bike to Work Day May 18. The pedaling participants were treated with clear skies, homemade smoothies, and even emergency flat tire repairs – for those who needed them.

Two-wheeled commuter Robert Worrell, who bikes regularly to his National Cancer Institute lab within the Clinical Center, says that for, him, the ride is all about:

WORRELL: Exercising…relaxing…and it really doesn't take me any longer than Metro.

CROWN: For five years in a row, NIH has earned the Metropolitan Washington Council of Government's award for being the area's biggest employer of Bike to Work Day participants. For some NIH staff, however, such as Dr. Daniel Hommer with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, using a bike to get to work is business as usual.

HOMMER: Initially, it was a necessity because we only had one car. So the only way to get to work was to bike or to walk.

CROWN: Dr. Hommer says that was then and this is now. But he stills bikes regularly because he says it keeps him feeling young. From America's Clinical Research Hospital, this has been CLINICAL CENTER RADIO. In Bethesda, Maryland, I'm Ellen Crown, at the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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