The National Bike Challenge is on!

[americancyclo]

I don’t suppose there is any way to import data automatically from Strava or Garmin? Although with 7 bikes, 2 wine trips and a year’s supply of cottonelle bath tissue (!?) on the line, it might be worth it!

[ronwalf]

@americancyclo 16927 wrote:

I don’t suppose there is any way to import data automatically from Strava or Garmin?

It picks up on your Endomondo workouts, and you can import those from your Garmin. It’s a clunky website, though. Everything seems slow and it takes several clicks to finish any task (importing, editing, etc).

[dbb]

@KLizotte 16923 wrote:

Participating K-C employees logged 357,739 miles globally, with U.S. employees pedaling 182,210 miles. The success in Wisconsin led to a bigger vision: Taking the challenge to the national level.

A goal for BikeArlington. Now that we have bested the K-C employees in the U.S. (based on the data collection effort KLizotte initiated in January), we should aim for world domination in 2012!

A possible BikeArlington tagline, “More miles ridden than a major multinational corporation!”

[jrenaut]

Can you enter stuff manually? I don’t use a GPS or phone app for 97% of my riding.

[americancyclo]

Someone should start a BikeArlington Forum team!

[ronwalf]

@jrenaut 16931 wrote:

Can you enter stuff manually.

Yes, you enter your commute distance when you register which lets you quickly log your commute.

[KLizotte]

Would be fun to get the DC area cyclists competing against, say, Portlanders. New Yorkers – pfftt. San Franciscans -double pfftt.

Competing against Amsterdam. We’re toast.

But hey, if the World Series is only amongst American teams, there ain’t no reason why we can’t aim for world domination!

[dbb]

@americancyclo 16932 wrote:

Someone should start a BikeArlington Forum team!

Done. There is now a BikeArlington team. The team can have up to ten members.

Please join me!

Dana

[paulg]

I’ve been using http://greenlightride.com/ for logging my miles and commutes, it has teams and competitions etc.

I wonder why the league they didn’t team up with these guys who already had a site that works.

[SpokeGrenadeSR]

muahahaha, biking 3800 miles across the country june-august will surely give me a chance at some kind of a prize. right? or are there cyclist masochists who will beat that with ease..

[KLizotte]

@SpokeGrenadeSR 16945 wrote:

muahahaha, biking 3800 miles across the country june-august will surely give me a chance at some kind of a prize. right? or are there cyclist masochists who will beat that with ease..

Evil plot! I like it. You’ll surely be in the top tier and maybe there will be some real goodies to be had.

[PotomacCyclist]

@KLizotte 16935 wrote:

Would be fun to get the DC area cyclists competing against, say, Portlanders. New Yorkers – pfftt. San Franciscans -double pfftt.

Competing against Amsterdam. We’re toast.

But hey, if the World Series is only amongst American teams, there ain’t no reason why we can’t aim for world domination!

We now have Capital Bikeshare. That levels the playing field against the Dutch.

[americancyclo]

@SpokeGrenadeSR 16945 wrote:

muahahaha, biking 3800 miles across the country june-august will surely give me a chance at some kind of a prize. right? or are there cyclist masochists who will beat that with ease..

If this competition is anything like the strava competitions, you’ll be blown out of the water. as will I. Some guy in England climbed 15,000 ft in one ride. http://app.strava.com/rides/5389979 then again, he was in England, so maybe you have a chance!

[americancyclo]

@dbb 16943 wrote:

Done. There is now a BikeArlington team. The team can have up to ten members.

Please join me!

Dana

I’m in!

[eminva]

@americancyclo 16950 wrote:

If this competition is anything like the strava competitions, you’ll be blown out of the water. as will I. Some guy in England climbed 15,000 ft in one ride. http://app.strava.com/rides/5389979 then again, he was in England, so maybe you have a chance!

I think the Strava competitions attract pros, maybe some of them sponsored by Strava? Hopefully this is geared more toward us commuter/recreational types.

I also signed up. Does anyone know how the points are calculated? I entered data for this week so far (but not today yet) and I only have 48 points. I’m letting my team down. You all have a bunch more points.

Liz

UPDATE: Wait a minute. It said 48 points and now it says 154 . . . well, maybe it’s a moving target to keep things interesting.

Also we need a few more teammates! Join us.

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