This edition has updated material on the National Incident Management System, National Response Plan, National Response Framework, and National Fire Protection Association Standard 1600; coverage of the World Trade Center Site litigation and effects on responders; more on post-traumatic stress disorder; expanded and updated material on the history, ...
Mesocycles are typically 3 to 4 weeks in length but can be a bit longer. Two very common mesocycles are 21 and 28-day training blocks. I will provide an example of a training plan with 21-day mesocycles in my next post.
More than 8 percent of U.S. commuters have a commute to work of 60 minutes or more, and almost 3 percent have extreme commutes of 90 minutes or more one way. Almost 600,000 full-time workers are mega commuters, traveling at least 90 minutes and at least 50 miles one way to work. Workers with earnings of $75,000 or more are slightly more likely to walk, bike, or take public transit to work or to work from home than workers in the middle of the earnings distribution. 2  Residents of Maryland and New York face the nation's longest commutes; each has an average one-way commute of more than 32 minutes.