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.

We’re up to second.

@TwoWheelsDC 46170 wrote:

I joined the all-stars, but I’m happy to move to a different team once the competition starts and there are others with more miles (assuming the all-stars is meant to be the varsity squad and if space is limited). My mileage will jump A LOT once the weather warms up. I’m aiming for about 150-200 miles a week this spring/summer, up from my 75-100 during the winter.

Ditto that. minus the big jump part.

@Dirt 46153 wrote:

We’re up to second.

You folks are up to number 1 now. Climbing the ranks fast!

@vvill 46097 wrote:

I’m signed up but I’m not planning to ride extra miles for this challenge, so if anyone wants my spot, assuming it’s a 10 person team, I don’t mind. Summer is usually a lot busier than winter for me.

And yes, dcv is the nut that is in 13th place on BAFS after starting late, after fracturing an important bone.

I think you must be reading last year’s FAQ. The old site + FAQ is still up. The easy way to find this year’s is using the nationalbikechallenge.org redirect.

@Dirt 46153 wrote:

We’re up to second.

@consularrider 46188 wrote:

Not only that, but we have the three podium riders. Too bad this is only the warm up and there are no “special” prizes.

Could they just stop it now and pass out the medals?

@rcannon100 46094 wrote:

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.

The “local” standing are based on the State you live in or District of Columbia if you are between states. A weird ass notion perhaps. But not one of Endomondo’s doing. Likewise the “communities” though sometimes oddly constructed were from U.S. Census Bureau. This year it seems the “communities” are more closely defined. My community, Brentwood, MD is holding it’s own.

…thinking we could use a fuzzy pink mascot.

But we already had Fluffy Pink Bunny Dirt.

@ShawnoftheDread 46377 wrote:

But we already had Fluffy Pink Bunny Dirt.

Yeah, but I’ve never dropped the fuzz!!