2013 National Bike Challenge

@Vicegrip 52059 wrote:

OK will join in. Checked my Strava stats 146 miles / 9 rides per week for the year to date. Dumb question number one. Can you load in via a garmin or is it by hand? If by hand can you go a few days and then do it all at once? If so I can just work off a Strava page to get the ride #s and distances.

Welcome and good questions! Misconception about the ability to upload directly from a Garmin unit is another of the reasons some are hesitant to join. I’d like riders to update their stats regularly, you have until the end of each month to log miles for that month. If you ride March 31st and upload it the next morning, it won’t count. This cost me last year when my power was out for a few days and some people who rode the Total Two Hundred double century didn’t get credit for their big ride.

@KLizotte 52060 wrote:

You can load directly from your garmin.

Yes but some who ride with Garmin and log miles daily don’t know this, and others don’t join because they don’t know this.

If you Google National Bike Challenge you’ll find the Endomondo NBC Homepage and if you’re logged in, you’ll see a button marked “log miles”. To sync you Garmin, Don’t click on this!

You must click on the word “Endomondo” on the upper right of the page to get to the Endomondo Homepage. Here, upper right, you’ll see “new workout”. That’s what you want to use.

Sorry to be repeating myself. I’ve written this info before but I’m still encountering riders who don’t know.

@cephas 52017 wrote:

That’s like halfway across the country!

Haha, I didn’t mean me literally, but the Bike Fairfax as a whole. That’s my point goal through September 30th.

If I have time, I may try to log an easy century on Sunday up to Purceville and back.

Note that Consularrider is “de slacking”. Was last (on injured reserve), than third from the bottom, now 7th from last. Rising like a Phoenix he is!

@dbb 52227 wrote:

Note that Consularrider is “de slacking”. Was last (on injured reserve), than third from the bottom, now 7th from last. Rising like a Phoenix he is!

You can’t stop him. You can only hope to contain him.

@dbb 52650 wrote:

How about we keep him from doing better than #1? He is 14 from the bottom as of a minute ago. We will soon have to start counting his position from the top (cause it will be easier). I’m due for a butt kicking from Mr. Consularider, the only thing we don’t know is when – if is certain.

LOL! I held him off as long as I could. He’s gonna pass me on his next ride.

Calling pass by ConsularSlacker. He is 13 from the bottom and picking us off. I’ve been dropped.

@hozn 52671 wrote:

I can confirm, that the above service seems to work great. I now have all my rides in endomondo without having done anything other than create an account. I went ahead and paid the $2/year for automatic syncing.

Now I just need to ride more. May has been a very low-key month; sorry, team

fyi to anyone else who wants to try this. I did it, and it does work great, but with one glitch that was minor for me but maybe not for others. I’ve been logging rides into endomondo (starting in april) by a variety of different ways, and the syncing duplicated some of them. I track all my rides with cyclemeter, and email the files to strava. I’ve manually entered some rides on endomondo, I’ve used endomondo iphone app running alongside cyclemeter on some shorter rides, and on some longer rides I’ve downloaded the cyclemeter ride to my computer and then uploaded to endomondo. Those last ones were recognized as the same ride and were not duplicated (identical files I guess). The ones that were manually entered and the ones tracked by two different apps weren’t recognized as the same ride and were duplicated both on strava and endomondo, so I had a little cleaning up to do to get things accurate again. I didn’t have all that many of them, so not a big deal, but if anyone has a lot of rides like that already in both places, it might be more messy.