devouahy - 2007-07-03 5:03 AM
I signed up earlier for 12 rides and this is also my first challenge. If you could advise on how challenge are ran, and details, would greatly appreciated. Looking forward. Seems we have a lot of high caliber triathletes on this site.
Cheers, and Happy Monday!!
To make it easy for everyone let me attempt to summarise the basics of how the challenge will run:
- The challenge is on for the Tour De France 7-29 July
- Each participant committs to riding a number of 'stages' (bike workouts) during this time frame. A stage is a minimum of 15 minutes on the bike.
- Each participant is part of a team, the winning team is determined by the team who achieves closest to 100% of their goal stages (anybody who exceeds their goal is just counted as 100%)
- Team are assigned at random although Im honouring all team requests where possible, and due to popular demand teams will be the same names as pro tour teams in the 2007 Tour De France peloton
- Teams are to nominate a team leader to provide updates of each team members progress weekly so we can track/announce how everyone is going
- Friendly banter, sledging etc is encouraged
- Inspiring your team mates, creating a team atmosphere, pedging allegiance in sig lines etc is all encouraged to keep everyone motivated towrads their goal
I will be announcing the team line ups on Wednesday AM (USA time) and the challenge will commence saturday. Anyone who signs up after Wednesday will be assigned to a team (Im trying to keep them balanced) or if we have enough I will start a new team