The National Bike Challenge is on!

[KLizotte]

That’s awesome Eminva and clever thinking. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you!!

[creadinger]

Wow, that’s great!!

That sounds like exactly what the spirit of this whole challenge is for! To get more people involved and to get businesses and community leaders to notice that cyclists do comprise a large enough group to consider infrastructure specifically for them in a car dominated world. I hope it works out for your team.

I wish there was even a chance of something like that out here in Suitland, but to hear coworkers talk it’s like they expect to get shot as soon as they leave campus everyday…. sheesh!

[vvill]

@eminva 18697 wrote:

Hello All — I just had to drop off the Bike Arlington A team

Our loss is their gain!

That’s a cool response though. I do see a lot of cyclists around K St but rarely one entering/leaving my building and I only know a couple others in my building that commute by bike (part-time, I think).

[paytonc]

I’m in on C Team.

Oh, and encourage me further with a Climate Ride sponsorship (even a few bucks) — I’m going to kick in a few hundred miles there!

[rcannon100]

The “Federal Cyclists Commission” laughs in the general direction of all those Bike Arlington teams! :p

[creadinger]

Does anyone know when your points actually update? It seems like they take a while (maybe even overnight?) after logging miles. For example, 6 members of BA Team B have logged miles today, but only 2 of us have any points in the standings.

In this age of instant updates, twitter, facebook and texting, the lag in point accumulation is frustrating. I demand action! Where is my instant gratification??

[Arlingtonrider]

Oops – My fat finger hit “like” when I meant to hit reply. I think it took about 20 minutes for my numbers to show up this morning. Will send you a PM also.

[DaveK]

CRAP! I forgot to deploy my 12-device recording mechanisms today. I’ll have to start tonight at the Freshbikes ride.

[KLizotte]

@creadinger 18978 wrote:

Does anyone know when your points actually update? It seems like they take a while (maybe even overnight?) after logging miles. For example, 6 members of BA Team B have logged miles today, but only 2 of us have any points in the standings.

In this age of instant updates, twitter, facebook and texting, the lag in point accumulation is frustrating. I demand action! Where is my instant gratification??

I suspect the server is slow since this is the official opening day for the contest.

Unfortunately I’ll be stuck in FL next week for work training so won’t be able to contribute much to my team

[DaveK]

@KLizotte 18987 wrote:

Unfortunately I’ll be stuck in FL next week for work training so won’t be able to contribute much to my team

You can still bike in Florida. Just don’t try it on the road if you value your well-being.

[ronwalf]

For the briefest of periods, I’m leading the team (yay for zoo trips!).

How does consularrider have 12 points? That should be impossible! (Maybe a ride that started before midnight?)

[TwoWheelsDC]

C Team is just 5 points behind B team…and both are beating the snot out of A and the *ahem* FCC…

[rcannon100]

The Federal Cyclists Commission is carbo-loading its ringers. (We are currently beating the, er, “snot” out of the other fed agencies) :p

[Arlingtonrider]

For a few short hours, the leaderboard showed an almost (but not completely) implausibly high score for Mr. Kelley, which has since been corrected. Whatever technical glitch might have caused this, we now know that it is more likely that he spent most of his day at his desk, working on good things for cyclists.

[Tim Kelley]

@Arlingtonrider 19013 wrote:

For a few short hours, the leaderboard showed an almost (but not completely) implausibly high score for Mr. Kelley, which has since been corrected. Whatever technical glitch might have caused this, we now know that it is more likely that he spent most of his day at his desk, working on good things for cyclists.

I put up some big numbers over the weekend (300 miles in 3 days in the Shenandoah Mountains) but that was before the contest started.

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