The National Bike Challenge is on!

[Arlingtonrider]

I second that! The A Team is now ahead of the B Team (update: that was for June only, and for just a little while this morning) and all the teams are doing well. Great efforts, everyone. I probably won’t be biking next week because of a business trip but I hope everyone has a great week! Go Killer Bees!

As Megabeth suggests below, you have to look at the national leaderboard to get the real rankings. The local one is meaningless because of the way they split up the teams.

[Megabeth]

Looking at the national leaderboard I’m seeing The Killer B’s are 8th for the entire period and 13th just looking at June. I’m seeing the A-Team at 15th, C-Team is 38th. (Not a bad showing considering there are 2507 total teams!)

I think when we look “locally” we all see different people making up the teams based on where our profiles are set. For example, when I pull up using the local screen, I don’t see Pete either individually or included in the B-Team because he’s rounded into another area/zip code…and, Pete’s our Killer Bee King!

[MV Clyde]

The Bike Challenge is changing some of my riding habits. Prior to this, all my rides were commutes or workouts. Now I take my bike out for leisurely rides on off days to get the 20 points. I never used to do that. It’s been fun. Next thing you know I’ll be running errands on my bike instead of my car!!

[dbb]

Pete should be in the DC Metro Statistical Area as it runs to West Virginia (see link below)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%E2%80%93Washington_Metropolitan_Area

Unclear what is going on but BikeArlington is clearly kicking some bicycle butt.

If we took the competition as seriously as our cycling, a BikeArlington all-star team would likely be close to first. I like the casual Arlington way better

[PotomacCyclist]

After an easy week of short daily rides (15-30 min. of easy pedaling and coasting), I’m hoping to start cranking it up, starting today. I’ll try to ride for a few hours today. Then I’ll ride for at least an hour a day, with one weekly ride being close to 2 hrs. and another close to 4 hrs. (or 5). I’ll do that for a couple weeks. Then I’ll back off again as I start to focus more on speed workouts instead of volume for the rest of the summer.

Some of those easy rides will be on CaBi though. So while I might ride for 60 min. (two separate 30-min. rides), I probably won’t rack up that many miles on the CaBi bikes. Kind of hard to break the 10 mph barrier on CaBi.

[Dirt]

@Megabeth 22421 wrote:

Looking at the national leaderboard I’m seeing The Killer B’s are 8th for the entire period and 13th just looking at June. I’m seeing the A-Team at 15th, C-Team is 38th. (Not a bad showing considering there are 2507 total teams!)

I think when we look “locally” we all see different people making up the teams based on where our profiles are set. For example, when I pull up using the local screen, I don’t see Pete either individually or included in the B-Team because he’s rounded into another area/zip code…and, Pete’s our Killer Bee King!

I pointed that out to support, they said it was fixed, but it doesn’t appear to be. I show up on my own screen. I can now see everyone on my team too. I couldn’t before.

It is pretty dang cool how well the Arlington folks are doing. Keep it up!!!

[rcannon100]

Dang it! Missed a day this weekend! Stupid Work / Life / Chores balance! 😡 (welp, the basement doors got painted).

[Mark Blacknell]

Hey, that’s the Bike Arlington B Team, #10 nationally . . .

[rcannon100]

Local Team Standings…. based on their national scores (you have to look at the National Screen in order to see all the local riders – otherwise NBC in its infinite wisdom splits the city into VA, MD and probably some more – and your LOCAL screen will only show riders from that jurisdiction). I know I am probably missing some teams.

NB: Team Federal Cyclists Commission is trouncing Team AT&T 😎

Team / Natl Score – Rank – 6/20/2012
Bike Arlington B – 8 – 17029
BikeArlington – 12 – 15590
Bike Arlington C – 27 – 13776
Oxon Hill Bicycle and Trail Club – Team 1 – 39 – 12918
Oxon Hill Bicycle and Trail Club – Team 2 – 51 – 12174
Friday Coffee Club – 78 – 11149
Silver Cycles Night Riders – 116 – 9483
Bike Club Yo! – 122 – 9228
Team Finra – 129 – 8986
IDA-3 – 160 – 8391
FABB – 185 – 7927
The Bike Rack DC – 220 – 7366
Federal Cyclists Commission – 231 – 7176
Oxon Hill Bicycle and Trail Club – Team 3 – 236 – 7099
Friday Coffee Club 2 – 243 – 7023
NIH – 270 – 6678
Farm and Rural Bicycle Branch – 341 – 5716
IDA-2 – 352 – 5568
IDA-1 – 378 – 5247
VOA DC – 416 – 4975
US DOT – 450 – 4797
IDA-4 – 471 – 4620
Crystal City – 572 – 3928
Arlington Transportation Partners – 840 – 2689
AT&T National Bike Challenge – 940 – 2236
WABA – 949 – 2201
HUD 2 – 1004 – 2043

[PotomacCyclist]

I live in VA. When I check the local leaderboard, Oxon Hill Team 3 and Team 4 show up, but not Team 1 or Team 2. NIH and US DOT appear on the list too, but not Bike Rack DC.

[Arlingtonrider]

If you ever find yourself at the Wyndham Hotel in Jacksonville, FL, please say hi to Dee, a delightful employee there who helped me keep accruing points for the BikeArlington B Team.

Dee overheard me mentioning that it would be really cool if all hotels had rental bikes, and generously offered to let me rent hers for my entire stay. We cut a very reasonable deal, and I had a blast exploring the area on her Freespirit Outrage, which came complete with a lock, horn and light, and included delivery and pickup. Dee, you are awesome – thanks so much! Please enjoy your BikeArlington reflective band, which I’m glad I happened to have with me in my backpack. I feel better knowing that you’ll have something more than just your rear reflector and taped-on booklight to help keep you safe when you ride at night.

[eminva]

That turned out wonderfully, Arlingtonrider! I have to go to Orlando in July for a conference for five days and I searched the hotel’s website for info on rental or loaner bikes, but the situation looks hopeless. Maybe I just need to find a friendly employee to help me out!

Liz

[Arlingtonrider]

It’s a nice thing all around. I highly recommend it.

[DaveK]

@eminva 23152 wrote:

That turned out wonderfully, Arlingtonrider! I have to go to Orlando in July for a conference for five days and I searched the hotel’s website for info on rental or loaner bikes, but the situation looks hopeless. Maybe I just need to find a friendly employee to help me out!

Liz

Orlando has some nice off-street paths but I would hate to see you (or anyone else I like) mixing it up in traffic down there. It’s terrifying. Stay safe!

[eminva]

@DaveK 23168 wrote:

Orlando has some nice off-street paths but I would hate to see you (or anyone else I like) mixing it up in traffic down there. It’s terrifying. Stay safe!

Right — it’s a huge resort (or so it appears from the website), so I was hoping there would be some trails I could ride around on without even going out into the larger world. As a side note, I took my son to Walt Disney World late last summer and was impressed with the wide roads throughout the Disney property (which was as big as some small cities I’ve been to). Though traffic moved fast, it was somewhat sparse when we were there, so cycling through would have been doable. Nonetheless, I only saw a couple people cycling while there. They may have been employees, because there really isn’t anywhere to go around there besides the parks and hotels. It makes sense that they don’t have any infrastructure — I’m sure the only people interested would be a tiny percentage of their employees and diehard fitness fanatics because not many people want to exercise while on vacation (aside from wandering from Space Mountain to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad).

But they will probably be keeping me too busy to think of recreation. Plus it will be hot. Oh well.

Liz

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