What is a LONG distance commute?

[ShawnoftheDread]

Why don’t we all just agree to join Oxon Hill’s team next year?

[skins_brew]

@Rod Smith 94943 wrote:

I hope you feel better soon! Oh by the way, are you on our National Bike Challenge team?

Drove/Metro’d to work on Friday due to the blistering, and even left early due to an intense headache/ hand and foot burn. Most of the blisters have subsided and are now just nasty red marks, but they kind of moved onto my face. If it wasn’t for my receding hairline and half ass’d attempt at a beard, people might think I was 18 again!

Thanks for the thought, I might ride in on Monday. I mowed my lawn today, so my feet are not that bad off.

I never joined the NBC because I just found out about it. Figured, no point in entering at the end, but when I dug deeper (weeks after I found it), I saw that it was totally geared to let people in until the end.

Man, I long to ride my bike. I feel like I have gained 20 lbs in the last week

[KLizotte]

We need as many NBC points as we can get so please join and upload those miles! I had to take two weeks off from riding due to life interruptus. Sigh.

[skins_brew]

OK, I created a NBC account and logged all my Sept miles. Do I have to join a team or something or am I good to go. It says my local challenge is WABA.

[KLizotte]

@skins_brew 95020 wrote:

OK, I created a NBC account and logged all my Sept miles. Do I have to join a team or something or am I good to go. It says my local challenge is WABA.

No, you want to be a member of BikeArlington: https://nationalbikechallenge.org/local-challenge/1542

[cyclingfool]

I believe local challenge is determined by your residential zip code that you enter when you register. Where we really need points is the Washington Area All-Stars team, located here. IIRC the team is an open team, so once you’ve signed up and signed in on the NBC site and go the team’s page at the link above, you can join with the click of a mouse there.

[Terpfan]

@cyclingfool 95067 wrote:

I believe local challenge is determined by your residential zip code that you enter when you register. Where we really need points is the Washington Area All-Stars team, located here. IIRC the team is an open team, so once you’ve signed up and signed in on the NBC site and go the team’s page at the link above, you can join with the click of a mouse there.

But I don’t think any of us will ever come close to the number one guy who logs more than a century per day. He must have a lot of time on his hands, yet he has a kid in his profile photo. I’m so confused.

As a team though, I think our per rider average is the strongest. We have 0 chance of catching up to Gainesville though .

[cyclingfool]

Yeah that guy is insane. I assume he’s independently wealthy, has a soigneur to cook his meals and give him daily massage treatments, and a team car to to service his bike while he’s out on the road.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@cyclingfool 95136 wrote:

Yeah that guy is insane. I assume he’s independently wealthy, has a soigneur to cook his meals and give him daily massage treatments, and a team car to to service his bike while he’s out on the road.

I always assumed most of the top guys just never bothered to fix endomondo sync issues (being generous). There’s one guy in my company in particular whose rides seem suspicious…

But I’m overly cynical, I admit.

[skins_brew]

I joined the all star team, or maybe it put me on there automatically, I don’t know. My week off with the zombie virus hurt my Sept mileage, but, oh well.

I managed to enter Aug mileage. Should I bother entering anything else? I just run a simple cateye cadence computer, so i don’t have details of exact mileage or each day, but I did keep track of when I hit 1k, 2k, 3k. If I go back and backfill, I could probably add another 2.4k to the total.

Worth it? Would this help whatever goal we are trying to achieve?

[Oblivious Recidivist]

Just started biking a 35 mile round trip 2 – 3 times a week from Potomac MD to downtown DC.

I’m new to cycling, so the first focus was on perfecting my route and minimizing the near death experiences and learning valuable little lessons, like don’t try to change lanes across 3 lanes on Pennsylvania Ave during heavy traffic. Then it was gaining enough fitness to get over the burning hamstrings. Then accumulating cold gear. Now it’s getting used to riding in the dark when I’m working late. Feels a little weird to ride on the dark sections of the Capital Crescent Trail, but apparently lots of folks do it.

Commute takes about 75 min in and 90 min back home. So far it’s the best part of the day, but we’ll see how it goes when work picks up again in mid November and there are a lot more late nights.

Glad to know there are plenty of other folks making the long commute!

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