National Bike Challenge 2014

[cvcalhoun]

The use of FitnessSyncer to sync rides from Garmin, Strava, etc. to MapMyFitness, from which they get picked up by the National Bike Challenge, is working right now, except that it sometimes puts miles onto the wrong day. They claim they will have the issue with getting the miles on the correct day fixed by April 16 (and the contest doesn’t start until May 1). So I’m thinking that manual entry really won’t be necessary.

@CPTJohnC 82374 wrote:

I am catching the drift here that manual entry is the best way to go. That’s unlikely to play well with my lazy man’s style. I can switch apps easily enough, but manual entry requires extra steps. Here’s hoping they get that fixed.

[Anonymous]

Is there some way to delete rides?

fitnesssyncher triple-posted all my strava rides to mmf, thus to nbc. I deleted everything from mmf (days ago, mmf has since been resynched to nbc multiple times), but the miles still show up on nbc. If there is some way to delete them, I am not smart enough to find it. I also tried a manual entry ride on nbc, to see how that would work. I can’t figure out a way to delete or edit that, either.

I am too error-prone to use a site that doesn’t let me fix my mistakes.

[cvcalhoun]

Have you tried posting a support request over on their support site? Here’s a link. They seem to be gradually making their way through all the requests and patching things.

@acl 82426 wrote:

Is there some way to delete rides?

fitnesssyncher triple-posted all my strava rides to mmf, thus to nbc. I deleted everything from mmf (days ago, mmf has since been resynched to nbc multiple times), but the miles still show up on nbc. If there is some way to delete them, I am not smart enough to find it. I also tried a manual entry ride on nbc, to see how that would work. I can’t figure out a way to delete or edit that, either.

I am too error-prone to use a site that doesn’t let me fix my mistakes.

[cvcalhoun]

The use of FitnessSyncer to sync rides from Garmin, Strava, etc. to MapMyFitness, from which they get picked up by the National Bike Challenge, is working right now. It looks like they even fixed the issue with rides posting to the wrong day today. So I’m thinking that manual entry really won’t be necessary.

@CPTJohnC 82374 wrote:

I am catching the drift here that manual entry is the best way to go. That’s unlikely to play well with my lazy man’s style. I can switch apps easily enough, but manual entry requires extra steps. Here’s hoping they get that fixed.

[Rod Smith]

Yes but manually logging directly to National Bike Challenge is possibly the easiest way to go. Click log miles and type the numbers for sport and transport miles ridden.

acl, I believe you can correct mileage the same way. Click on log miles, select the calendar (vertical lines in upper right of this window) select date you want to edit and change the numbers that appear under ride distance.

[cvcalhoun]

Not sure why logging miles manually every day would be easier than setting something up once to automatically transfer them over from Strava or Garmin for you, assuming you’re already using Strava or Garmin. However, both methods are available, so anyone who wants to join is welcome to use either.

[Rod Smith]

@cvcalhoun 82442 wrote:

Not sure why logging miles manually every day would be easier than setting something up once to automatically transfer them over from Strava or Garmin for you, assuming you’re already using Strava or Garmin. However, both methods are available, so anyone who wants to join is welcome to use either.

Well you would have to open an account at MapMyRide but that’s a one time thing so your probably right. And there are people who use a cycle computer and not GPS to count their miles. Last year one of the highest placed riders was entering his miles manually which caused some to question authenticity, …until he posted his Strava user number . SteveE, our highest placed rider last year entered his miles manually, but he has Strava to back up his claims as well.

I would suggest if anyone wants to log miles manually, to log them directly on NBC and not on Endomondo just to avoid possible problems although I suspect the glitches will be resolved soon.

[Rod Smith]

Dang, Shawn Gallagher just went ahead of me on the leaderboard! He’s averaging 134 miles per day. The best I’ve managed is 128, once. Gotta step up my game!

[americancyclo]

@Rod Smith 82449 wrote:

Dang, Shawn Gallagher just went ahead of me on the leaderboard! He’s averaging 134 miles per day. The best I’ve managed is 128, once. Gotta step up my game!

har har. I haven’t even bothered to look at the NBC website in a few days. might go check it out now for a giggle.

[consularrider]

Just remember, the actual challenge hasn’t started yet so think of this as the shakedown cruise.

[sethpo]

@cvcalhoun 81173 wrote:

Fitnessyncer will sync Garmin or Strava to MapMyFitness, which is one of the apps that works with the National Bike Challenge. Just be aware that it syncs only once a day. I set it to sync, and when it didn’t seem to work right away, uploaded all those rides to MapMyFitness–only to have them all duplicated after the first sync. Other than that, it has worked fine.

Be careful with this Fitness Syncer. I set it up to synch from Strava to Map My Ride and it imported old data so now I have duplicates in Map My Ride which I guess I have to manually clean up which is going to be a PITA.

[Anonymous]

@Rod Smith 82437 wrote:

acl, I believe you can correct mileage the same way. Click on log miles, select the calendar (vertical lines in upper right of this window) select date you want to edit and change the numbers that appear under ride distance.

This is working now for manually entered rides. Apparently they have no intention of making it possible for GPS uploaded/synched rides.

Note: for competition integrity, you cannot edit miles captured though GPS apps.

Because, naturally, GPS apps never make mistakes, so the only reason for wanting to change them is to cheat.:rolleyes: (actually, I assume their stated reason is a lie and the real reason is they don’t want to bother implementing the functionality. Because considering that you can add as many miles as you want manually, that is a completely meaningless reason.)

[ShawnoftheDread]

Fitness synced still doesn’t seem to work properly between strava and mapmyfitness, so I’m deleting that. I’ll just enter miles manually during the challenge.

[cvcalhoun]

Are your Strava rides not ending up on MapMyFitness, or are your MapMyFitness rides not showing up on NBC? FitnessSyncer seems to be working perfectly to get my Strava data to MapMyFitness. But in the past few days, NBC seems to have stopped picking up the MapMyFitness data, and I have a support request in on that.

@ShawnoftheDread 83346 wrote:

Fitness synced still doesn’t seem to work properly between strava and mapmyfitness, so I’m deleting that. I’ll just enter miles manually during the challenge.

[cyclingfool]

@cvcalhoun 83533 wrote:

Are your Strava rides not ending up on MapMyFitness, or are your MapMyFitness rides not showing up on NBC? FitnessSyncer seems to be working perfectly to get my Strava data to MapMyFitness. But in the past few days, NBC seems to have stopped picking up the MapMyFitness data, and I have a support request in on that.

I’ve had similar issues, although the data is eventually picked up, just not right away… more like w/in 12 hours or so. At least it’s crediting the synced miles to the right day once they do sync up.

But other uses for MMR data, like Earndit, are picking up the miles and syncing them instantly after I sync manually using FitnessSyncer.

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