Winter Bike Challenge

[Mikey]

I don’t know if any exist, a short google search turned up some year old Endomondo challenges, but is anyone interested in forming up teams and doing a winter bike challenge, during JAN-MAR, with “practice” in December? Anyone else find any links? It could be fun. Does Bike Arlington want to put something together?

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[Mikey]

We could add bonus points for trips completed below 20F, or in snow.

[Dirt]

I know Strava does a base-mile challenge during the winter months. Last year it was sponsored by Rapha, so it was EPIC!

[Dirt]

2 mile challenge is still going. We already met the November goal. I don’t know if it will go on to December.

[eminva]

One of my colleagues set up an intra-company challenge on Endomondo for the month of December. Just for bragging rights and fun. Anyone is welcome to join it, if they like:

FINRA Bike Club December 2012 Challenge

Liz

[ShawnoftheDread]

@eminva 36622 wrote:

One of my colleagues set up an intra-company challenge on Endomondo for the month of December. Just for bragging rights and fun. Anyone is welcome to join it, if they like:

FINRA Bike Club December 2012 Challenge

Liz

How does Endomondo work? Do you log your miles manually? Also, why the noon start and stop times for the challenge?

[eminva]

@ShawnoftheDread 36624 wrote:

How does Endomondo work? Do you log your miles manually? Also, why the noon start and stop times for the challenge?

I didn’t notice the noon start and stop times! I assume it was system generated — I’ll mention it to my colleague to see if he can override it.

With Endomondo, you have a few choices: manually logging miles, downloading their smart phone ap, or uploading data from a Garmin. I take it from others the latter was kind of clunky, but I didn’t use mine for that during the National Bike Challenge this summer; I got my Garmin towards the end of the challenge and just kept using the smart phone ap, which worked fine.

Liz

[Dirt]

@ShawnoftheDread 36624 wrote:

How does Endomondo work? Do you log your miles manually? Also, why the noon start and stop times for the challenge?

Endomondo lets you download from your GPS directly or manually enter. The interface was bad enough for me that I likely won’t do a challenge there again. Some people didn’t have issues with it. I definitely did.

[Tim Kelley]

@Dirt 36626 wrote:

The interface was bad enough for me that I likely won’t do a challenge there again. Some people didn’t have issues with it. I definitely did.

Horrible, horrible interface.

[Mikey]

I have a very bad cell phone so no GPS or STRAVA, so I like that Endomondo allows manual entry.

[vvill]

We could just post/update our weekly mileages in this thread if we’re going with manual entry.

Endomondo does have a horrible UI.

[Bilsko]

Agreed on Endomondo data entry Fail.

I think VVill’s suggestion of posting totals in this thread is a good one b/c it will let people use whatever system they want to keep track. I wonder if there is any un-lockable forum tool that has basic spreadsheet functionality or other numerical data tracking.

That said, it would be nice if Strava let users post/create local or group challenges. Could be a thing where only premium users can create to generate a bit of revenue for them.

[Mikey]

Endomundo did suck, especially when Dirt’s miles didn’t count one month becasue of late entry.

We could probably set up a Google Site, with pages for each team, then allow riders to update their own page, and team captains to update the cover site? Anyone good with this kind of stuff.

[vvill]

Hmm…. how many teams are we envisioning? How many riders/team?

[Mikey]

How about 4-5 riders per team, but each team must be coed, and each team must consist of riders from at least 3 municipalities (d.c. f.c. ARL, Moco, Alex, FFX) etc, then see how it works.

I would invision starting in January (because of holiday travel) and run through st patricks day with a party at the end.

[DismalScientist]

@essigmw 36832 wrote:

each team must consist of riders from at least 3 municipalities (d.c. f.c. ARL, Moco, Alex, FFX) etc,

I would think that geographical homogeneity would lead to much enjoyable cross-jurisdictional trash talk. :rolleyes:

[Author]

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