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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Here is some analysis of the National Bike Challenge – specifically the competition between the Washington Area All Stars and the Gainesville team. While the graphs show the Plano team as well, I’m not going to discuss the Plano performance.
As of this morning, Gainesville leads Washington by 7,134 points. This gap has closed from their 9,252 point lead at the end of May.
For the first 10 days in June, Gainesville has received 45,568 points compared to 47,686 points for Washington.
Both Gainesville and Plano are beating Washington in the calculated miles per rider per day, where Gainesville has 27.0 miles per rider per day and Plano has 37.2. The All-Stars has only 22.2 miles per rider per day. Because the All Stars have many commuters, we are seeing the benefit of riding often.
If you look at the number of rider-days (determined by calculating the number of days ridden), we see the benefit of the All Stars’s commuter contingent. Washington has 282 more rider days than Gainesville (4,259 vs 3,977).
The dilemma we face is that as of yesterday, only 184 (74%) of the All Stars 250 members have logged miles with the NBC. This compares with Gainesville’s 228 (65%) of 350 members and Plano’s 172 (78%) of 221 members.
What are the key points here?
- If you are riding and logging your miles, please keep up the good work.
- If you are riding and not logging your miles, please log your miles so the All Stars earns those points
- If you aren’t riding, please start (and log your miles)
- If you know a fellow rider who rides regularly, please ask them to join the All Stars and log their miles
Thank you for your attention .
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