2013 National Bike Challenge

@Rod Smith 46077 wrote:

Check it out! Bike Arlington All Stars is in fifth place already! http://www.endomondo.com/campaign/nbc2013/leaderboard Two places behind my old team. Please join if you are a high roller.

And that’s based only on your miles. Looks to me like Arlington can setup a real dream team. I’ll just be happy to say you folks helped get me into this game!

@mllwhnp 46080 wrote:

definitely! I’m in!!

Not until someone starts the team…

The Natl Bike Challenge FAQs say team size is limited to 10.

I think their leaderboard system might be misleading people. Endomondo slices and dices its leaderboard in a variety of ways – by workplace, community, etc. It led to some confusion last year because we had people on one team not showing up for some purposes, based on zipcode or State, I think. Pete might remember the details because he was affected by it. But I think there was some way we could view the results that made it all work out.

How do you remove yourself from the contest? I accidentally joined as an individual, but I want to participate on my previous team. Or is it possible to join as both an individual and as part of a team?

2nd question: Can we add teams from last year to the contest? Or do we need to create a new team for 2013?

@consularrider 45860 wrote:

…Maybe we can set up a team of the top ten riders from Freezing Saddles and make a run for the podium?

Please join “Bike Arlington All Stars”.

@vvill 45917 wrote:

…I don’t get why it’s unfair to win? I seem to remember the top 3 or so teams had some monster mileages.

Ok, the idea to balance the team with equal number of men and women didn’t receive much interest, and the idea to create a women’s team did, so the All Stars team will be mostly men I guess. Please join!

@dcv 45934 wrote:

I’d like to sign up for the slacker team

You broke your femur this winter? I guess you wrote about it here but somehow I missed it. I don’t know exactly which BA forum user name matches each of the Stava names. Are you Vincent N.? I don’t see a gap in his riding. Do you just keep rolling when you’ve busted a femur? My doc didn’t let me ride for six weeks when I broke my wrist…

@eminva 46085 wrote:

Unless I’m very much mistaken, I believe one of your BAFS top nine is a woman.

Liz

Yes of course and Lena is certainly welcome to join the All Stars. Aplologies for referring to the team as a “men’s” team.

Thanks Shawn Dread for joining the team.

@Arlingtonrider 46089 wrote:

I don’t know the answer to your team questions, but I saw in my very brief look at the FAQs that you need to join first as an individual and then you can join a team. I think there is also a way to contact the NBC folks with questions that aren’t addressed in the FAQs.

Although you clicked FAQ on the 2013 NBC webpage, the link is to the FAQ from the 2012 contest…

The “Local” leaderboard was based on some weird ass notion by whoever was running the competition – of who their partners were. I guess they were trying to partner with orgs like Bike Arlington or WABA or some Maryland Equivolent. As a result, you would take what WE would consider one place – Washington DC Area – and divide it into three. At my office we have bike commuters from VA, DC, and MD. But because of this weird ass notion, we would be on two (maybe three) different local leaderboards. Obviously what they could have done is let US define our common geography (our common geography is our office building which is DC). But no. And that made it really hard to compare how the “local” teams were doing against each other (every month I would manually pour through the numbers and pull out the teams I could identify).

I will also say that by August most of my team had lost interest. I think they were willing to finish off the summer. But one month into the Fall?? One month into the school year??? Yeah, there is no way everyone is going to sustain the competition that long. We probably will because, well, we are mentally deranged. But trying to solicit people from my office to do this again??? Not too sure.