National Bike Challenge 2015-Washington Area All-Stars

[Tim Kelley]

@Mikey 117856 wrote:

Can’t we get that first place rider who is putting in something like 750,000 miles this year to join our team. We can offer him cool Bike Arlington Swag right?

Yes.

[dbb]

Exactly who was going to recruit that first place rider?

All,

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 4,169 points (down from 7,134 ten days ago). This gap has closed from their 9,252 point lead at the end of May.

The graph below shows the difference in point totals between Gainesville and the All-Stars during the completion.

For the first 20 days in June, Gainesville earned 97,425 points compared to 102,508 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 36.9. The All-Stars has only 22.3 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’ commuter contingent. Washington has 470 more rider days than Gainesville (5,547 vs 5,077).

The dilemma we face is that as of yesterday, only 194 (75%) of the All Stars 259 members have logged miles with the NBC. This compares with Gainesville’s 241 (65%) of 369 members.

What can you do to help?

• Ride your bike 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

I read on the NBC page that you can log miles for months past and while you won’t get retroactive prize eligibility, the points will accrue to the All-Stars.

Thank you for your attention.

[KLizotte]

Too bad we couldn’t get all those folks riding on Cabis to log their miles. We would blow everyone out of the water if we could do that. Maybe the Cabi folks should give a Garmin to each person who signs up for a new account.

[kwarkentien]

Maybe we could just embed a gps tracker in each CaBi that auto uploads to NBC when re docked. [emoji41]

[Boomer Cycles]

@KLizotte 118557 wrote:

Too bad we couldn’t get all those folks riding on Cabis to log their miles. We would blow everyone out of the water if we could do that. Maybe the Cabi folks should give a Garmin to each person who signs up for a new account.

I ride Cabi a lot and track my millage on my phone using the Strava App.

[Mikey]

I’m impressed how we are hanging in there. Who wants to do some pointless hot laps of Hains Point tonight to bite off a little more of GCC’s lead? We can do this people. You think it’s hot here, it must be hotter in Gainesville.

[DCLiz]

@Mikey 118742 wrote:

You think it’s hot here, it must be hotter in Gainesville.

According to Weather.com:
Washington DC at 1:30 pm: 92 feels like 104
Gainesville FL at 1:30 pm: 91 feels like 98

[Mikey]

@DCLiz 118798 wrote:

According to Weather.com:
Washington DC at 1:30 pm: 92 feels like 104
Gainesville FL at 1:30 pm: 91 feels like 98

Yes, but we have hills

[cyclingfool]

@Mikey 118803 wrote:

Yes, AND we have hills

FTFY

It’s hotter here AND we have hills. Gainseville=slackers.

[KWL]

What the heck. I’m playing with Strava in preparation for Freezing Saddles and figured I may as well throw in my junk commuting miles. I’m in.

[cvcalhoun]

Anyone else having trouble syncing with Strava today? I tried syncing, and it said it had synced, but showed no miles. When this has happened in the past, I’ve been able to fix it by deauthorizing and reauthorizing Strava, so I tried that. I got an error message when I tried to reauthorize, but then it again showed as authorized. But it still isn’t syncing.

[MFC]

@cvcalhoun 119142 wrote:

Anyone else having trouble syncing with Strava today? I tried syncing, and it said it had synced, but showed no miles. When this has happened in the past, I’ve been able to fix it by deauthorizing and reauthorizing Strava, so I tried that. I got an error message when I tried to reauthorize, but then it again showed as authorized. But it still isn’t syncing.

It worked fine for me this afternoon (maybe around 2).

[cvcalhoun]

@MFC 119143 wrote:

It worked fine for me this afternoon (maybe around 2).

I just went back and discovered a message that I needed to reauthorize Strava. So I did, and it finally synced.

[DCLiz]

June winners have been announced. Looks like the DC area got shut out again. I think the fix is in!

July prizes are up.

[cvcalhoun]

@DCLiz 119447 wrote:

June winners have been announced. Looks like the DC area got shut out again. I think the fix is in!

July prizes are up.

Yeah, last year we had several winners, including one who won two months in a row. It’s a bit demoralizing to have no one from the whole metro area winning this year.

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