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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[Arlingtonrider]

@cvcalhoun 114753 wrote:

And we’re up to 191 riders.

Up to 192 now – just signed up for this year. Nice to have the integrated Strava logging!

[rayko]

@Arlingtonrider 114855 wrote:

Up to 192 now – just signed up for this year. Nice to have the integrated Strava logging!

Up to 193, just signed up.

[PotomacCyclist]

I’m seeing the team and some other local teams listed as having zero riders now.

[cvcalhoun]

@PotomacCyclist 114862 wrote:

I’m seeing the team and some other local teams listed as having zero riders now.

My recollection is that riders aren’t shown until they have at least one ride. So since all rides before May 1 weren’t counted, it may show 0 riders for now.

[Mikey]

For those of us who were spoiled by hozn’s freezing saddles site, you have to be patient with the national bike challenge. It takes a while to update miles. It is best to wait until the end of the day to see how we are doing. Log, and synch when you can, but don’t expect them to show up right a way (or within a few hours).

[MFC]

@Arlingtonrider 114855 wrote:

Up to 192 now – just signed up for this year. Nice to have the integrated Strava logging!

Any idea if the Strava logging works? From what I read on the NBC website yesterday, its been buggy.

[Emm]

@MFC 114882 wrote:

Any idea if the Strava logging works? From what I read on the NBC website yesterday, its been buggy.

I worked for me a few weeks ago pretty consistently, but then I moved back to MMR for reasons I can’t remember. MMR was such a wreck last year I ended up logging things manually, but it seems pretty glitch-free over the last month of me playing with the NBC site.

You can use the fitnesssyncer.com site to automatically sync strava to MMR if Strava starts acting up too often. I sync the opposite way since MMR wont accept detailed GPS data from Strava, but for the sake of the challenge that shouldn’t be an issue since you just need miles and days.

[Tania]

Just joined the team. I think (didn’t see the # go up).

[Arlingtonrider]

@MFC 114882 wrote:

Any idea if the Strava logging works? From what I read on the NBC website yesterday, its been buggy.

It doesn’t seem to be working for me at this point. No time now to fool around with it.

[Tania]

@Arlingtonrider 114902 wrote:

It doesn’t seem to be working for me at this point. No time now to fool around with it.

I manually synced it from my NBC profile (worked fine, just not automagically).

[vern]

@Tania 114904 wrote:

I manually synced it from my NBC profile (worked fine, just not automagically).

I did the same last night and it works fine, so far.

[Arlingtonrider]

Thanks! Will try that.

[MFC]

@Tania 114904 wrote:

I manually synced it from my NBC profile (worked fine, just not automagically).

That’s consistent with what I read, thanks. Its a a bit of a pain, but I’ll live.

[consularrider]

Well, I’m shown at #209 so today’s first ride of the challenge has been counted. We’re 26 points behind Gainesville.

[Mikey]

For one brief moment I was in 2nd place locally

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