2013 National Bike Challenge

I see. Both commute and transport miles count as “transport” miles contribute to CO2 and dollars saved. Miles from “sport rides”, recreational riding, training, touring, racing, do not.

Our team has a nice mix of transport vs. sport miles but I wonder if our transport miles aren’t actually higher. Imported from a GPS unit, rides go in as sport rides. You need to edit the ride to change it to transport. When you go to to your profile > workouts, you can see your sport rides represented by a little racer icon, transport rides by a little rider sitting more upright.

How exactly do my “transport” miles save CO2? It’s not as if I would drive as an alternative means of getting to work.

Hello —

I’m hoping to crowdsource the solution to a little technical problem. With some arm twisting, I convinced the challenge officials to allow us to create a “local” challenge for the cyclists of Fairfax County, under the auspices of Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling (FABB). I just used the link they provided and created it. So it is out there ready to log our tons of miles. There is one catch: no one can figure out how people who are already enrolled in the 2013 National Bike Challenge can join a local challenge created after they have joined the national. Challenge officials are awaiting word from Endomondo. In the meantime, anyone want to try to figure out how to get those of us who’ve already registered aboard the local challenge? Thanks.

Liz

@vvill 49632 wrote:

Go to your profile within the national bike challenge site (click on your avatar/image), click on Change Settings. Hit OK (don’t bother changing anything unless you want to). When the page reloads you should see the local challenge.

Worked for me anyway.

Also, here is a direct link for the FABB challenge.
http://www.endomondo.com/campaign/national?view=7731

It works! That was fast.

So anyone who has already registered for the challenge, lives in Fairfax County and wants to participate in the Local Challenge, please follow the instructions above. You can still participate in your team or workplace competition; this is just an additional layer.

Thanks again.

Liz

Congrats on getting the Fairfax County Local Challenge up and running, Liz! Congrats vvil for figuring out how to join it!

Welcome to newest members, Dickie and Greenbelt! We have forty members today on the eve of opening day. We did great in the grapefruit league (warm-up period). Congrats! Number one medium sized team nationwide. Top team in DC and VA. Third placed team in Maryland.

Three riders in the top ten nationally, five in the top forty, eight of the top 200! Two women in the top twenty!

Virginia is the 14th ranked state. Eight of the top ten VA riders are BA All Stars. Three of the top four women. Four of four if Zanna would joined our team, but I guess she prefers to go it alone.

DC is ranked fifth among states, with three from the Bike Arlington team in the top ten DC riders.

The challenge begins for real tomorrow! The results from the warm-up period won’t count towards the NBC but they will be viewable until next year. Post your Feb-Apr rides by midnight if you want to see your team, your community, your workplace or yourself higher on the preseason leaderboard.

It’s not working well when I search the state and national leaderboards for men or women separately, but seems to work OK when I look at all riders. I know there are other women teammates highly placed in VA besides the three or four I’ve alluded to, but I can only see the top ten women in the state. You are on the team for sure and your points are counting for your team and workplace.