National Bike Challenge 2015-Washington Area All-Stars

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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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[AFHokie]

@LeprosyStudyGroup 127066 wrote:

Now that the event is over:
assuming a rough parity in riders dropping off in logging miles (though who bothers? it’s automatic for most!)
whoever it is in the GCC is no longer bothering to input fake riders and miles, and we’re blowing them away by 3x the points
https://nationalbikechallenge.org/leaderboards/teams?date=2015-10

in unrelated news DC is the #2 “state” as well

Not to defend the GCC, but haven’t others pointed out WAAS rides a lot more transportation/commuter miles and GCC rides more ‘recreational’?

If so, I’d surmise that’s a reason for the smaller variance in WAAS monthly numbers and why they remain more consistent over the course of a year compared to GCC.

I’m curious to see how WAAS miles rise/fall once temps drop and snow flurries begin.

[dasgeh]

@LeprosyStudyGroup 127066 wrote:

assuming a rough parity in riders dropping off in logging miles (though who bothers? it’s automatic for most!)

I wouldn’t be so sure that it’s automatic for most. I, like many others, used a phone app and don’t bother these days.

[Rod Smith]

@AFHokie 127076 wrote:

…I’m curious to see how WAAS miles rise/fall once temps drop and snow flurries begin.

The National Bike Challenge is really just off-season training for Freezing Saddles.

[dbb]

afhokie;127076 wrote:

i’m curious to see how GCC miles fall once temps drop and snow flurries begin.

ftfy

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