National Bike Challenge 2015-Washington Area All-Stars
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You guys convinced me, I’m riding for Washington Area All-stars now! (Much love for Women and Bicycles and all, but this inter-state competition is one of my favorite parts.) What I don’t know is whether all of my points/miles etc. will transfer over, or just what I’ve put in since I switched.
In any case my 50-miler yesterday both bumped me up to Platinum for points and broke 1,000 miles for the period. I’m on track to beat my PR from last challenge and its not even half-way through!
233 participating out of 299 registered. The number of registered riders without any points has decreased by 30+ since this morning.
Here is the data in graphical form from this morning. I will be like a kid waiting for Christmas morning so I can reflect the new reality. It is likely to be neck and neck for a while as both teams begin the floggings associated with such a tight competition. I’d expect that our friends in Gainesville are actively encouraging their members to join and log their miles as we speak.
Here is team points (from this morning)
The difference in team points between Gainesville and the WAAS
The team sizes. Note the recent bump as we stepped up recruiting.
The metric “rider days” is calculated based on the points and miles. The WAAS is riding more consistently.
Plano is shown on the graphics because they are in 3d place nationally.
In terms of average miles per rider-day, we are solidly in 3d place. We have 23.5 miles per rider-day compared to Gainesville’s 28.9 and Plano’s 38.9. We don’t ride as far but we ride more consistently.
This is reflected in the calculated rider-days per day of the competition where we have 120 compared to Gainesville’s 108 and Plano’s 57. That means that, on average, 120 of our members are out riding on any given day.
Looking at the NBC lists, 82% of our team is on the leaderboard compared to Plano’s 80% and Gainesville’s 70%
Bottom line? Keep riding, recruiting and logging your miles.
I’m happy to help! I was already glued to the national standings competition (albeit focused on the cities and states–Dammit Wisconsin!) So now I have something else to get irrationally competitive about.
Each ride to the office is another 6 miles minimum, and I’m now into the 60+ weekend ride part of my century training. Its no Iron (Wo)Man, but its a start!
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