New Strava challenge up!

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http://app.strava.com/challenges/Skratch-Labs-World-Championship-Challenge

I actually signed up for this one, and think I can make decent progress. Probably not the whole “455 miles in 4 days”, but it’s open for 2 weeks so I’ll give that a shot. Especially since the 50 states ride is on day 1 of the challenge

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@Rod Smith 31767 wrote:

Four days! Haha, you crazy.

LOL I’d have to ride like 4 days straight! Fortunately, you get credit for the challenge if you complete the mileage in 14 days, and I’ll need all 10 of the extra days hah

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@Rod Smith 31769 wrote:

I can’t believe I joined Strava. Will everyone be able to see how slow I am?

Here’s my link, friend me, Rod!

http://app.strava.com/athletes/580874

[Rod Smith]

I’ve been thinking, strategizing. I figured out that I don’t have to log every ride, just the long ones. If I want to do this in four days, they don’t have to be Saturday through Tuesday. I’m thinking two Saturdays and two Sundays.

Anyone doing two laps tomorrow? 100 State ride for the double metric!

[Rod Smith]

Strava don’t play. Endomondo was so fred friendly, these are the big boys and girls! (A certain Laurie L is top woman on most of the sections on my commute). It seems a tired old man riding a 36lb box store MTB, hauling a 40lb trailer with 30lb of supplies on it plus groceries on the home run, has a good chance of ranking at or near the bottom on every segment. 120th out of 120 on the MBT segment.

I wasn’t going to Strava my work days until next week, and as few of them as needed to complete the remaining mileage, but I changed my strategy. The original goal, to do it in four rides fell apart Sunday when I couldn’t get up, or out early. I didn’t leave until after the Men’s Road Race ended, noon our time. Cool to see Duggan (and teammate Howes) up in the break for a long time, as he is one of the three rider’s who’s distance we’re trying to match. Unfortunately Tim DNFed. Should the challenge be shortened because of that?

So it took all weekend for me to ride as far as Gilbert rode in 6 hours. That helps to put pro road racing in perspective for me.

Everyone who finishes this challenge is a winner. We all win the same prize, a discount on Skratch Lab products. There is however a leaderboard. Congratulations to those who finished in the first four days of the challenge, but finishing in four days won’t necessarily get your name on the first page. To finish high on the leaderboard, the ride that takes you over 455 miles needs to be a long one. For example, the current leader is a guy in Greece who rode around 3000 miles on his eighth and final ride of the challenge. That’s gonna be hard to beat!

I’m going to try to be as close as possible to 455 by the end of Saturday’s ride and go for a long one Sunday.

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I have definitely planned out rides in order to help Strava challenge goals. I did a climbing challenge (Rapha) for which I did get a lovely patch, and a distance one after that already this year, so I’m not attempting to finish this one.

I think if more Cat 1/2/3 racers actually Strava’d their stuff most of the commuters like us would have no hope of placing all that high.

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