National Bike Challenge 2015-Washington Area All-Stars

[cvcalhoun]

Don’t know what to do now that Freezing Saddles 2015 is over? Motivate yourself to exercise, and potentially win prizes, by participating in the National Bike Challenge May 1-September 30! You can sign up now so you’ll be ready when it starts. (If you signed up last year, you’re already in, and don’t need to sign up again.) Please don’t hesitate to join the team just because you’re not sure how many miles you will bicycle–EVERY mile helps!

To join:

1. Sign up at the National Bike Challenge registration page.

2. If you’re local to the Washington, DC area (two hours by bike from downtown), join the Washington Area All-Stars team! You can do this by going to the Washington Area All-Stars team page and clicking on “JOIN.” You can also join a school team and a workplace team if you like.

3. If you have a smartphone, you can use it to keep track of your miles automatically:
a. Sign up for Strava, MapMyFitness, Moves, or Endomondo.
b. Link the app to your National Bike Challenge account by signing in and going to Edit My Profile. At the bottom left of that page is a place where you can authorize the relevant app.
c. Put the app on your phone, and use it when riding.
d. Sign in to the National Bike Challenge site at least once a week, and on the last day of each month, and click on the “Log Miles” button, then click on “Sync Now” on the page that comes up.

4. If you have a Garmin, you can use it to keep track of your miles automatically:
a. Sign up for Strava. (You can also do this with MapMyFitness, but I’m keeping this simple by avoiding posting two sets of directions.)
b. While logged in to Strava, click on the red arrow in the upper right, then choose “Upload activity.” You will be given options to either upload from your Garmin or, if you already use the Garmin site to upload miles, to sync your Garmin and Strava accounts.
c. Sign in to the National Bike Challenge site at least once a week, and on the last day of each month, and click on the “Log Miles” button, then click on “Sync Now” on the page that comes up.

5. If you have neither a smartphone or a Garmin, you can still enter miles manually. Sign in to the National Bike Challenge site and click on the “Log Miles” button, then fill in the information under “MANUALLY LOGGED MILES” and click the “LOG MILES” button.

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[DismalScientist]

@Rod Smith 120575 wrote:

I hope you’re uploading your bakfiets rides, Dasgeh. Use of electric assist no longer disqualifies rides from counting.

Cheaters never prosper.

[cvcalhoun]

@DismalScientist 120586 wrote:

Cheaters never prosper.

It’s not cheating. The FAQ says:

Miles pedaled on a trainer, stationary bike, or throttle-assisted electric bicycle are not eligible to be logged in the National Bike Challenge. Miles traveled on a pedal-assisted electric bicycle (devices that provide assistance only when the bicyclist is pedaling) may be recorded in the National Bike Challenge.

So no, motorcycles don’t count. But e-assist bicycles do. Given the weight of dasgeh’s bike and its contents, I’m strongly suspecting that the amount of energy she has to put into pedaling, even with e-assist, is greater than most of us do with a normal bike without e-assist.

[Mikey]

@cvcalhoun 120589 wrote:

It’s not cheating. The FAQ says:

Given the weight of dasgeh’s bike and its contents, I’m strongly suspecting that the amount of energy she has to put into pedaling, even with e-assist, is greater than most of us do with a normal bike without e-assist.

Especially more than those flat landers from Gainesville, Florida

[dbb]

@DismalScientist 120586 wrote:

Cheaters never prosper.

How are Wall Street’s big investment houses doing?

[dbb]

Here are the graphics showing the recent lead-taking by the All Stars over Gainesville.

The All Stars has about a 15,000 point lead over Gainesville. That should not be seen as an opportunity to rest on our laurels (where exactly are our laurels?), as we are but a couple of days ahead of Gainesville.

While Gainesville has the lead on the number of miles, the All Stars continue to log more, but shorter, rides. This is shown below.

[consularrider]

Well,as of Tuesday someone will need to pick up my slack ’cause Cannon told me I had to leave. :rolleyes:

[dbb]

@consularrider 120746 wrote:

Well,as of Tuesday someone will need to pick up my slack ’cause Cannon told me I had to leave. :rolleyes:

You, sir, are expected to take your slack with you to the Ukraine! Just remember to log your kilometers

[cvcalhoun]

@consularrider 120746 wrote:

Well,as of Tuesday someone will need to pick up my slack ’cause Cannon told me I had to leave. :rolleyes:

No, you just need to go to Kyiv. We expect you continue biking there. And pursuant to a rules interpretation by Rod Smith, you can stay on the team if you were in this area on May 1.

[dcv]

@consularrider 120746 wrote:

Well,as of Tuesday someone will need to pick up my slack ’cause Cannon told me I had to leave. :rolleyes:

Mileage in Kyiv still counts

[rcannon100]

@consularrider 120746 wrote:

Well,as of Tuesday someone will need to pick up my slack ’cause Cannon told me I had to leave. :rolleyes:

[Kitty]

You guys managed to talk me into switching to the All-Stars at a good time! Yesterday I broke my PR for longest distance in a day, and put up 83.3 miles! 😮

By the end of the week I’ll hit my 2014 NBC point/miles total… and that’s before the 70 mile route I have planned for Saturday!

Watch out Gainsville! Kitty is commin for you!

[DCLiz]

Your monthly prize update: we finally have a winner! Two, even! Both All-stars (and both Matt). Congratulations to Matt Eggleton from Alexandria and Matt Holmes from Fairfax.

[dbb]

Point totals from this morning. Most of the discussion from earlier postings remain appropriate.

Note that the WAAS is closing on total miles.

The WAAS has a 30K point lead at this point.

[Kitty]

Woo-hoo! It was really exciting to see the posting for the month come up! I already enjoyed seeing the monthly breakdown, but now that I’m part of the Gainesville chase its even better! One thing I am a bit bummed about is how far Arlington has dropped back in the community ranks (for cities over 200,000 of course)

Personally, I finished out the month on a high note. I ended up riding every day in July and with the weekend century training put up my most points in a month. While technically in August, my Saturday ride pushed me over the total number of miles I put up for all of the 2014 NBC! 😮

[Mikey]

Did G’Ville give up?

[Author]

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