2013 National Bike Challenge

Don’t know about dot fit files but if you are on the page that shows your miles this week and today and a green button marked “log miles” to the right of that, you’re on the wrong page unless you want to log miles manually. Click on the Endomondo logo on the top green banner. This takes you to your Endomondo homepage. Click on “new workout” on the top green banner. Select import from Garmin. Select rides to import from your connected Garmin. At least thats how it works on a Mac in Safari.

@PeteD 50698 wrote:

all my activities on both sites are single file uploads.

I’m the exact opposite. I’m hooked on Strava so I do an almost daily upload there, but have no stake in the endomondo community, so I only visit on the last day of the month to upload all my rides. It takes a while, but the forums here help pass the time :p

Adam

The Cascade challenge is a one month challenge that has the Fed Agency League. It has teams of limited size (up to ten) meaning that there is some basis for competition. And all it measures is commute rides, nothing else.

The NBC is the other challenge. There is no Fed League (I tried to set one up but went in circles). It is from May to September (last year my riders were begging to be let off the team by August…. too long…. by September a lot of people will have forgotten about it). There is no team structure – so we created the Bike Arlington All Starts…. but it can have as many members as we can recruit…. so I am not sure what we will compare ourselves with. But, and this is the most important part, you can win a life time supply of toilet paper.

You can do both. I have organized the Federal Cyclists Commission for the Cascade because there is an actual challenge there, where I cant really figure out the NBC and it is too long for the average rider. The Cascade challenge is the one where we get to see which Fed Agency is KOM (king of May).

@essigmw 50756 wrote:

I just noticed that the NBC is awarding 20 pts for each day ridden, (and I’m assuming there is no 1.0 mile minimum like we had in BAFS.) Bring on the Cheese. I can’t see any reason I would not do at least 0.1 miles each day. That’s 2460 pts just for participating.

As your attorney, I advise you to ride at least one mile

POINTS SYSTEM:

Points are awarded throughout the Challenge and are cumulative over the duration. They are awarded in the following two ways:
20 Challenge points are awarded for each day you ride at least 1 mile
1 Challenge point is awarded for each mile ridden
Rides can be logged at anytime over the month but must be logged by 11:59 pm of the last day of each month.

20 points??? Geeze!!

@essigmw 50756 wrote:

I just noticed that the NBC is awarding 20 pts for each day ridden, (and I’m assuming there is no 1.0 mile minimum like we had in BAFS.) Bring on the Cheese. I can’t see any reason I would not do at least 0.1 miles each day. That’s 2460 pts just for participating.

I read something this morning on the endo site that the 20 points are for a 1 mile minimum. Sorry guys!

@cephas 50820 wrote:

I read something this morning on the endo site that the 20 points are for a 1 mile minimum. Sorry guys!

http://www.endomondo.com/campaign/national/prizes second bullet point. Of course, if it’s functioning properly is not guaranteed.