Summer Bike-to-Work Challenge (Page 6)

I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend.  Here is the my final tally.  Please let me know if there are any updates.

 NAME           GOAL    PROGRESS
BadgerIronMan  25          6
bucwilson      36          1
camy           40         31
cando2                    
chile7473       6          6  
jbjboc         50          1
jonow6         45
jpcan          55         53
oneword/spokes 60         82
piggpen35      35          1
purplehayes    68         70
runnergirl29   18          2
running2far    30         17
scout7         50 
sunnys         45         45
tim_edwards    50         31.5

 Congrats to all who acheived their goals, props to all who fell short, but didn't give up. Kudos to everyone for takin a step to incorporate fitness and conservation into their daily lives.

 Some Observations:

When the weatherman calls for a 40% chance of rain, the real odds of it raining on me during my commute are considerable lower - more like 10%  It took me a while to figure that out and I missed out on some good riding oppotunites.

I found that I got to work in a better mood and worked more effectively on bike days than on car days.  As for post-work-day stress, "Tell it to Dr. Road.."

I live too close to work for my rides to really make a big difference in training. The Round trip distance is about the same as a sprint, but I've found that 2 half rides in a day don't give the same training benefint as 1 whole ride.  At lease the rides did help me get a work out on days I might otherwise have gotten none.

 My 31.5 rides amount to 441 miles not ridden this summer, or, with my car, about 20 gallons of gas not used.  Not a huge dent in the Our petroleum consumption.  (My actual usage was prbably a little higher as I tended to "batch up" errands for "car days", Still, it's a step in the right direction I'm using it as justificaon to spend $50 on miscellaneous tri-gear.

When the weatherman calls for a 40% chance of rain, the real odds of it raining on me during my commute are considerable lower - more like 10%.

I found that I got to work in a better mood and worked more effectively on bike days than on car days.  As for post-work-day stress, "Tell it to Dr. Road..:

The start of school put an early end to my quest for 50.  Maybe next year, I'll take the kids to school on this:

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Ok, I have been a slacker all summer, I changed jobs and thought I could make this work but my commute non bike is 2 hrs each way until I move and I have gotten hardly NO workouts in all summer. Riding that mileage just wasn't working with my work schedule. I am back now though and hopefully can get in on the next bike to work challenge once I am moved a bit closer to my work... Still waiting on my house to sell...

 Congrats to everyone who got a few rides in this summer... Its good for you AND the environment.