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2007-06-27 6:24 AM

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Subject: The July 2007 Tour De France Bike Challenge

If you plan on riding a road bike, tri bike, unicycle, exercise bike, bmx, trainer bike, spin bike, mountain bike…ANY BIKE (that you pedal yourself) in the month of July then the 2007 Tour De France Challenge is for YOU!

The concept is simple, post your intention to participate in THIS THREAD in the Challenge Forum and then work out the number of bike sessions (tour stages) you are going to ride between the 7 – 29 July .

Then you will get put on a team roster and take a turn at Tour De France glory in 2007!!! Friendly banter and sledging will be encouraged BUT REMEMBER… the only place you can back it up is on the bike. As with all stage races consistency is key…

So what are you waiting for? If you ride join the 2007 Tour Challenge NOW!

 

The Challenge Rules:

 

Depending on interest teams will have up to 9 team ‘riders’ just like the Tour teams and team leaders can be decided by nomination or volunteers in each team.

I will post the initial team line ups on July 4-5 (Wednesday/Thursday) or earlier if we have the number of entries to warrant it then add additional teams or team members on the Friday (6 July) prior to the event starting. Late additions will of course be more than welcome!

The winning team will be determined but the overall % of goal amount of stages achieved by the team. In the event of a tie, the winner will be decided by the amount of team members who reached their own individual goal.

Individuals who achieve more than their committed stages will not have these additional rides counted towards their team total but please add them to the reporting so we can acknowledge your team members hard work!

Teams will need a team name and feel free to also nominate team colour/colours, mascot and even theme song. Any volunteers with artistic skills are welcomes so we can try to give every team its own jersey design to make it stand out in the peloton.

All types of riding can be included as a stage based on YOUR activities and training plan or even racing so if it’s a bike and you use pedals to power it with your legs then it can be counted towards your committed stages (workouts) for the three week Tour De France. However, riders must complete a minimum of 15 minutes ride time per session.

Throughout the challenge, in addition to the number of stages cycled, team leaders will also be collecting the times and types of sessions raced (loosely based on their TDF definition of flat/rolling, mountain and TT stages) by their team members so we can compare our efforts with those in the peloton in France using average speeds, course distances and other interesting facts from this years Tour De France.

Team members will be required to post their weekly results with their team leader each Monday with team leaders sending me their team results by Tuesday afternoon so I can try and get all tracking online Tuesday night/Wednesday morning (USA time of course!)

In the event of illness or injury team members can withdraw from the 2007 Tour De France Challenge if all team leaders agree. I will maintain a team leaders thread for any issues that may arise and to keep everyone up to date with any information or queries.

Most importantly this is meant to be FUN!!! So enjoy, encourage, inspire and have FUN!!!!

 



2007-06-27 6:39 AM
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Sign me up.
2007-06-27 6:56 AM
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2007-06-27 7:38 AM
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Count me in!

 

July is my IM base training month, so I should be a great contributer to someone's team. 

2007-06-27 7:42 AM
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SWEET! Count me in!

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2007-06-27 8:36 AM
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I am in

2007-06-27 8:48 AM
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Assuming ONLY if some other newbies (ie, not elite cyclists) sign up, I would like to participate, seeing as how I think it would encourage me to ride as often as humanly possible, in preparation for my tri in August. However, I say ONLY if other newbies sign up, as I wouldn't want to be a detriment to someone else's team. And it seems as though most people on here are pretty awesome, and not exactly "beginners".
2007-06-27 9:03 AM
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wurkit_gurl - 2007-06-27 11:48 PM Assuming ONLY if some other newbies (ie, not elite cyclists) sign up, I would like to participate, seeing as how I think it would encourage me to ride as often as humanly possible, in preparation for my tri in August. However, I say ONLY if other newbies sign up, as I wouldn't want to be a detriment to someone else's team. And it seems as though most people on here are pretty awesome, and not exactly "beginners".

 This is totally about meeting your goals... you volunteer how many times you will ride and then you are only tracked on whether you achieve your goal.

 The teams are measured on how each individual achieves against their own goal so you will fit right in!!!!

 Your team will be there for advice, support and cheerleading! And the whole idea is to encourage you to ride ride ride!!!! Welcome to the challenge!!!

2007-06-27 9:09 AM
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2007-06-27 9:13 AM
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wurkit_gurl - 2007-06-27 8:48 AM Assuming ONLY if some other newbies (ie, not elite cyclists) sign up, I would like to participate, seeing as how I think it would encourage me to ride as often as humanly possible, in preparation for my tri in August. However, I say ONLY if other newbies sign up, as I wouldn't want to be a detriment to someone else's team. And it seems as though most people on here are pretty awesome, and not exactly "beginners".
WOW, I guess I am not allowed...

(have fun with the challenge, it seems very fun!)



2007-06-27 9:17 AM
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No, I just meant that I only want to do it if there are other newbies doing it. I don't want to drag down a team of super-cyclists. I'd feel really bad if we lost...

I'm not trying to stop anyone from doing this. If anything, I'd like to encourage some other total newbies to join forces with me

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2007-06-27 9:21 AM
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I need to get my butt on a bike in July...count me in!
2007-06-27 9:32 AM
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I really need to get my biking volume up, I am so in!
2007-06-27 9:42 AM
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Yes, I'm in.  this sounds fun....
2007-06-27 1:07 PM
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I'm in -- and I totally vote for black and gold for team colors (black and gold bikes are the fastest, you know :-))


2007-06-27 2:39 PM
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sel166 - 2007-06-27 2:07 PM I'm in -- and I totally vote for black and gold for team colors (black and gold bikes are the fastest, you know :-))

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I want to play too. And black and gold(yellow) bikes are the best.... and they are easy to see among all the red and blue bikes.

Chris

2007-06-27 3:58 PM
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I am in too....

I hope that will make me bike more

2007-06-27 3:59 PM
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Count me in!! I have my Fassa Bortolo socks ready to go. Just call me Petacchi! Oh wait. Now I have to get Domina Vancanze socks. Damn.

Off to go figure out how many rides to commit to...

Black and Gold rules! Hmmm. Logo?

2007-06-27 4:08 PM
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If exercise bikes at the gym count (due to the endless rain we are having, please God, make it stop) I'm in for 8 tour stages


Edit: my blue bike beats any black/gold bike. Let the smack begin!

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2007-06-27 4:32 PM
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TexOma - 2007-06-28 7:08 AM If exercise bikes at the gym count (due to the endless rain we are having, please God, make it stop) I'm in for 8 tour stages Edit: my blue bike beats any black/gold bike. Let the smack begin!

 Yup all biking counts!!! (except motorcycles and maybe pedal boats???)



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This one sounds like fun.  I'm in. 
2007-06-27 6:18 PM
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Sign me up although I don't quite understand it (never stopped me before, LOL).  Are you just counting the number of times that you ride your bike?  Does a mileage goal have anything to do with this?  Whatever it is, I'm in. 

Diane

2007-06-27 6:29 PM
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drdi - 2007-06-28 9:18 AM

Sign me up although I don't quite understand it (never stopped me before, LOL).  Are you just counting the number of times that you ride your bike?  Does a mileage goal have anything to do with this?  Whatever it is, I'm in. 

Diane

Hi Diane - WELCOME!!

Yup Im focusing on consistency with this challenge (and because it tied it in with the Tour!!!) Basically it is the number of workouts that you do... BUT I will also be adding tracking for milelage and time cycled so that we can compare out efforts to the Tour De France riders.

Minimum ride length is 15 minutes... to stop people hopping on a bike for a minute  but basically its about driving you to make your workouts!

Also.... I have had a few PM's with suggestions since i havent run a challegne before!

If no one objects the ideas/suggestions that have come through are:

- All workouts must be logged in your BT training log (seems fair). Usually a stadard requirement with challenges

- A forfeit/penalty for the loosing teams following BT tradition... this is normally an avatar change and a sig line change: I will put this up for discussion once we have assigned the teams as people have already signed up without this being part of the deal!

Any more queries or ideas please feel free to post in any of the Bike Challenge threads or Pm me!!!!

To all those joined so far WELCOME! This is going to be FUN

2007-06-27 6:35 PM
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TexOma - 2007-06-27 2:08 PM If exercise bikes at the gym count (due to the endless rain we are having, please God, make it stop) I'm in for 8 tour stages Edit: my blue bike beats any black/gold bike. Let the smack begin!

How does a blue stationary bike beat anything??? Heh.

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