The National Bike Challenge is on!

[creadinger]

@americancyclo 23766 wrote:

Just squeaked over 1500 points!

That would be me. If the regular commute didn’t do it, then I’d have done a few extra miles on the way home.

I’m bringin up the rear on the Bees, but I have 1850 miles on the year, which is about 200 miles ahead of where I need to be on this date for my annual goal, so things are going very well.

Bring on autumn! Please?

[vvill]

@dbb 23769 wrote:

Maybe the “feature” that keeps Dirt from showing up as local is a way to keep the race fair. Anybody that can get to platinum each month is out of my league! Well done, Pete!

I’m confused, where are you looking? If I click on Leaderboard > Communities
I see
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
(currently #76)
and Dirt is #7 for June, #1 for May and #1 for “Entire period”. consularrider and Greenbelt are also in the top 10.

@creadinger 23770 wrote:

I’m bringin up the rear on the Bees, but I have 1850 miles on the year, which is about 200 miles ahead of where I need to be on this date for my annual goal, so things are going very well.

I set a sort-of-goal/estimate in my head of 3000 miles this year (last year I did maybe 1300mi but only started riding seriously from July), but I’ll be at 2900 by the end of this month!

[Dirt]

@vvill 23774 wrote:

I’m confused, where are you looking? If I click on Leaderboard > Communities
I see
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
(currently #76)
and Dirt is #7 for June, #1 for May and #1 for “Entire period”. consularrider and Greenbelt are also in the top 10.

My ninja powers keep me from being seen from some people when they look at that list. I brought that to the attention to the support people and they couldn’t figure out what the issue was.

[consularrider]

@Dirt 23764 wrote:

I’m not platinum for June yet. Hopefully will be by Saturday night.

You must really have been sick if I’m 200 points ahead of you for June.

[Dirt]

@consularrider 23781 wrote:

You must really have been sick if I’m 200 points ahead of you for June.

You’ve been killing it for the whole time you’ve been around, sir! You’d be right up with me had you not missed the first 2 weeks of the challenge. As for me, I’ve got about 140 miles over the last 2 weeks. I’m usually at 350+ per week this time of year.

[dbb]

@vvill 23774 wrote:

I’m confused, where are you looking? If I click on Leaderboard > Communities
I see
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
(currently #76)
and Dirt is #7 for June, #1 for May and #1 for “Entire period”. consularrider and Greenbelt are also in the top 10.

Looking at the A and B team (for illustration with no offense intended to the C team) shows the following:

B Team
Pete Beers 3613
Michael Essig 2296
Kathy Lewis 1968
Dave K 1916
Mark Blacknell 1827
Megan Jones 1711
Patrick Walsh 1701
Krista Schepis 1575
Katherine Lizotte 1560
Chris Readinger 1501
Sum 19668
Local total 8567
National total 19668

A Team
consular rider 3135
Will L 2511
Tim Kelley 2338
Zanna Worzella 1755
Kevin Williams 1730
Dana Bres 1607
american cyclo 1513
Chris Eatough 1325
Ron Alford 1168
Chris Slatt 1037
Sum 18119
Local total 12927
National total 18119

It isn’t clear what/who the local leaderboard isn’t including in the totals. Tonight, with beer someone can attempt to educate me.

[Dirt]

@dbb 23800 wrote:

It isn’t clear what/who the local leaderboard isn’t including in the totals. Tonight, with beer someone can attempt to educate me.

Mike Essig and I do not show up on everyone’s list when they look the way you did. For some people we do show up. For others we don’t.

[dbb]

I’m so confused!

[Dirt]

@dbb 23808 wrote:

I’m so confused!

It is an imperfect world.

[dbb]

@Dirt 23811 wrote:

It is an imperfect world.

You are a software guy, shouldn’t you say “Feature laden”?

[vvill]

Just a note on another place to log your miles for July:

http://www.waba.org/blog/2012/06/track-your-trips-in-july-to-help-raise-10k-for-waba/

I started doing this a couple of days ago so I’d remember (hopefully) to do it for July, as the website (2milechallenge.com) appears to only let you log miles on the day you rode them!

[Arlingtonrider]

I think milege for the Natl Bike Challenge has to be posted by midnight to count for the month. Our 200 mile riders might be too tired tonight for that. I’ll just be glad to hear that they’re all back safely!

[consularrider]

Mine’s posted. I ended up with 203 total miles for the day by riding to and from the event and skipping the out and back to St Marys. That way I got to log miles when it was cooler and could take my time after the lunch stop.

[Arlingtonrider]

Good thinking! I saw you all as you were heading east on Pennsylvania Ave. Some longish hills around there to start the ride with. Do you know if everyone made it back all right?

[consularrider]

Saw Tim, Mark, and Pete at the end. They’ll need to give their own stories.

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