March bike challenge- Big East (North East) team (Page 2)

Hours: Hmm...this is tough because right now I can't ride at ALL..may not be able to ride until last week.of march .instead of "skipping' the challenge- go with 2 wks time,2x wk- scant 4 hrs- but in context for me they will be four very happy hours!!!!Will also commit to cheerlead the first 2 weeks!!!!

That would be my dream vacation! I'm so excited for you!

Lynne,

I’m still not 100% sure how converting my timed training plan to miles is going to work out but I spent some time this morning trying to figure it out and I think I really underestimated my mileage for the month. So, could you please change my commitment from 150 miles to 275? (As I said in my post above, if I’m wrong I'll be doing one he11 of a ride on March 31st! )

Thanks,
Rob

Allright, I am finally going to enter one of these challenges. This works out well since my focus this year is the bike. Since almost all of my riding will be indoors, put me down for 16 hours.

Mark

Nice!

Okay - it's not much, but I think 5 hours is probably going to be max for me at this time. Can't do miles on that though.

............GO BIG EAST!!!!!Cycling fools...spin til you drop....!!!!

May I join you?? I'll chip in 175

Sorry 175 miles..

really to heavy handed on the submit button.

Edited by KathyG 2006-03-02 6:47 PM

a four banger repeat...oops

Edited by KathyG 2006-03-02 6:46 PM

oops!

Edited by KathyG 2006-03-02 6:46 PM

We're getting quite the team together! Not surprisingly considering most of us will be doing most of our time on trainers still for the next month, but many more people have time rather than mile goals.

Rob- I increased your goal per your request. I had already done the same to mine because I thought my initial one might be sandbagging a little so we may both end up doing significant rides on Mar 31st.

KathyG- so jealous of your vacation but you've really earned it. Please give us a report when you return.

Isis54- glad to have you as our official cheerleader and I hope you heal quickly.

TypeA Girl Pilot- Welcome to your first challenge. I did my first last month and its a great motivator.

So the updated list:

isis54 4 hrs 240
D.Z. 5 hrs 300 SU
EmilyG 5 hrs 300
jpcan 5.5 hrs 330 Boston U
tri again 7 hrs 420
Celeb ithil 8 hrs 480 Umass
pjostack 8.5 hrs 510
PollyC 10 hrs 600
kleinrider 11 hrs 660
geoffs 12 hrs 720
KathyG 12 hrs 720
lobstergirl 12 hrs 720
Jlee 15 hrs 900
stone 16 hrs 960
TypeA Girl Pilot 18 hrs 1080
ekl26 25 hrs 1500 Va Tech
max 31 hrs 1860
MAtriMom 100 miles 100
danielle860 140 miles 140
exor 175 miles 175
mperdue 200 miles 200 Marist
xterratri 250 miles 250 SU
CptnJackSparrow 275 miles 275
camy 300 miles 300
oceanannie

Here's hoping the forecast is accurate and it really is 40 and sunny on Sunday. I really want to put some miles in outside. I love the Spinervals workouts and I know they are doing great things for my riding but sometimes you just need a nice spin outdoors. Plus I always put up more miles outside than on the trainer.

Thanks, this is my first challenge as well. All of my miles are outside. My morning and evening workout is a bike to and from work . Hopefully I'll go over 200, but just wanted to play it safe my first time around...how do we win these, is it the most milage, the closest to % of goal?? Thanks for leading the team!! Are the miles tallied out of my training log, or do I need to report them somewhere..sorry for all the questions...first time..

My understanding is that the tallies are based on what gets recorded in each person's training log. The ideal would be for the whole team to get 100% of goal like Team Canada did for the Feb run challenge.

Exor- I'm impressed that you are doing all of your miles outside. I probably could do that here in ME since I commute by bike year around but I dress much differently to ride the 1.2 mi to school than to go out for 20+ miles. I'm also lazy about taking care of my bikes and I don't mind so much replacing the chain after the winter on the Kona Smoke commuter but I really prefer to take a little better care of my nicer bikes. I have actually kept lube and even cleaned the chain once this winter on the Smoke though. Did the QR and Trek the same day. QR needs it again but I'll wait til after I ride outside on Sunday. Excuse number 3 besides lack of booties and being lazy about maintenance is the daylight issue. Don't have to worry when riding the trainer.

BTW- I don't log my commuting miles. It's a fact of like for me and not a 'workout.' Besides it's only 2.4 to 7.2 miles a day depending on how many trips I make back and forth anyway. It's even kind of lazy in a way- I get the only 'parking space' that's less than 10 ft from the door of the building

Eagleman will be 100 days away in about 90 minutes, so it is time for me to actually start seriously biking again. Put me down for (gulp) 700 minutes.

ok, I'm in for 9 hours on the trainer.

I'm getting pumped about commuting again, but I will count mine as it is about only riding I'll do. In fact, my 300 mi is my plan for commuting miles (3x a week, 25 mi round trip). I suspended my commuting in November due to the lack of daylight hours and I refuse to ride in the dark. I plan on making Monday my first commute of the year.

Thanks! My commutes are 8mi each way, I get all geared up and mix up my commutes with some spinning for x number of seconds and take a slightly different route home sometimes to get some hill work in. There is a bike path all the way down the hudson river that I take every AM, so no minimal competition with trafic (even stoplights for the bikepath, the red, green and yellow lights are in the shape of a bycycle) It is a blast...I've got a 20year old Peugot that I use for my sloppy day commutes and cold weather commutes. The weather here has been awful the last couple of days, no commuting too icy...I did, however, just reevaluate my goal, and wanted to challenge myself a little more (and I realized that March has 31 days). Please put me down for 260mi.

Thanks!

Team Big East- as far as I know at this point in time

isis54 4 hrs 240
D.Z. 5 hrs 300
EmilyG 5 hrs 300
jpcan 5.5 hrs 330
tri again 7 hrs 420
Celeb ithil 8 hrs 480
pjostack 8.5 hrs 510
TriMom217 9 hrs 540
PollyC 10 hrs 600
kleinrider 11 hrs 660
oceanannie 11.67 hrs 700
geoffs 12 hrs 720
KathyG 12 hrs 720
lobstergirl 12 hrs 720
Jlee 15 hrs 900
stone 16 hrs 960
TypeA Girl Pilot 18 hrs 1080
max 31 hrs 1860

MAtriMom 100 miles
danielle860 140 miles
mperdue 200 miles
xterratri 250 miles
exor 260 miles
CptnJackSparrow 275 miles
camy 300 miles

I will be doing the first weekly tally tomorrow night. If it's not in your training log, it doesn't count so please log your ride time/miles. Also I understand that we are mostly Northerners and that many of our goals are based on higher miles/time as we get closer to the end of the month. So please don't be dissapointed if it seems like we aren't making much progress early on. That being said, mostly because it applies to me, it doesn't hurt to go give inspires to team members.
Lynne

Go Big East!

Thanks, Lynne, for tracking the progress. It looks like we are a big group so I'm sure this took some time to put together.


I commuted to work today which was the first of this year. It really kicked my butt and I'm back with the problem of going out too hard on the road. Well, at least I gained 1 mph average over my commutes from last year.

Way to go on your first commute to work of the season. Good to know there are other bike commuter/trainers out there. Also, thanks for the bit of inspiration. Things are looking really good up here this week for riding..50s 60s toward the end of the week. Lets hammer this thing...