June Bike Challenge???? (Page 2)

If you count trainer miles, you would have to count spinning miles and stationery bike  miles, and those things are woefully inaccurate. Do you want someone to get credit for 20 miles if they only put out a 14-mile effort?

But whatever y'all decide

Problem with last month's mileage + 20% as the goal: I had no A races last month and I have one this month. This month includes 2 taper weeks and a transition week. My mileage has to go down this month. How about a choice of last month + 20% OR our planned distances for the month. I like using the challenges as a public commitment to my training plan.

I'm open to any team/individual thing as long as it's for charity and I don't have to make another picture of my @$$ available to the tri-community for appetite control.

And no, that avatar is not me. I'll have one up this weekend. The Chycks are gonna learn the meaning of "be careful what you wish for".

I'm in on this one because my tri is on Sunday so I can focus on biking to train for RAGBRAI.  No opinion on team divisions, like the charity plan again, vote no for trainer and spinner miles (sorry).

Are we going retro back to the 1st?

cool idea!

I'm hoping theres one for July... I know I'll get 480+ just DOING RAGBRAI.... that's if I can get ready for it.

How about team captains, and each one drafts their team members?

Red bikes vs blue bikes?

GREAT! Straight back to Junior High where I was picked last for EVERYTHING because I weighed 90 pounds soaking wet in a world of large Iowa farm girls.  Well, whoever is doing the 'drafting' , just be advised - I WILL make my goal - period.

I'm up for this!! My goals will be modest, I'm still new to this and to top it off I move at the end of the month, so I have lots of hours of packing to do! But all the more reason to escape for bike rides, ride?

Last month - my first ever on the bike - I did 150 miles roughly. I had already made 200 a goal for June, so that would be my goal here as well.

First of all, lets keep in mind that the purpose of this is to keep one another motivated to reach a goal, so I think the teams need to be small enough such that each member can monitor/motivate the others.  Why don't we simply create a list of participants who blog their training on actual bicycles (no spinners, gym bikes, etc).   Then, we take the list and randomly divide it into teams of 6 people (trying to equalize the ratio of girls to guys on each team).

We can debate this, but I think its fair to include miles on a trainer as long as its the same bike you would otherwise ride outside.  The mileage measurement has to be through a cyclometer mounted to the bike that measures the distance through the wheel on a roller.  No other device or trainer will count (e.g. computrainers, stationary bikes, spinning bikes, etc).  This should only be allowed in the case of inclement weather or darkness.  There's no replacing outside miles on a bike.

Then, its a 1 month race to see who can log the most miles.  To reduce the effect of having one super human on a particular team, we can base it upon the team average of miles/participant.

This would allow us to get to know others on the board and keep the teams small enough that we could "motivate" one another through the inspire me's.  Also, participants would agree to pitch in $5 per to contribute to the Top 3 team charities.  Team 1 gets 50% of the pot, Team 2 gets 30%, and Team 3 gets the remaining 20%.

The Charities have to be legitimate and able to accept credit card donations directly to the charity in the name of the person who is raising funds.  We'll use the honor system where it concerns the actual payment of the pot.

Yep, Garmin or Cyclometer.  I was simply referring to inside trainer miles.  I have a fluid trainer where I set my actual tri bike on a roller and can still read the mileage through the cyclometer.  This is as accurate as though I were riding outside.  I don't think any of the gym bikes are very accurate, nor are the spin bikes.  The point being, this should be about training on your racing bicycle and if the weather doesn't permit an outside ride, then if everyone agrees, we can include the miles you "ride" inside on a magnetic or fluid trainer.  See pic below.  On this setup, the cyclometer will still give you an accurate reading of speed and distance.

The miles need to be on your bike.

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Counting trainer miles puts those of us without trainers on unequal footing since there is no way for us to get in miles when it's raining or dark. I think Mike's right, just subtract your expected trainer mileage from your goal....