2019 BianchCam ACF Commuting Challenge (AT) Endomondo

[jasonc]

The commuting challenge is for any rider on any type of bike and is described as -
"ACF BNA Commuter challenge. A commute is where you start at one destination and end at another for a purpose other than training. e.g. to work, to the shops......"

If you would like to join please find the link to the challenge here https://www.endomondo.com/challenges/39070962 (and yes you will have to join Endomondo).

Access to the challenge will be closed at some point (usually end of January) to stop the randoms, but Jason will open it up on request to allow new competitors in.

If you are using a bike computer that auto-uploads to Endomondo, it will most likely appear as a recreational ride. You'll need to change it to cycling (transport) to count.
Rules:
A commute is where you start at one destination and end at another for a purpose other than training. e.g. to work, to the shops, to your mistresses'/paramour's house. it's a ride that is replacing another form of transport. If you are riding to a race (that you are competing in) that's not transport, that's a warm up.
You must update your rides no less frequent than monthly otherwise the challenge becomes difficult to keep track of.
Extended commutes count. e.g. Do a group ride on the way to work, then ride to work. That counts. HOWEVER, if you ride home to pick up your bag, then it's only from there that the distance counts!
Good luck

Prize: If you win you can bask in the glory of beating me

[find_bruce]

Thanks for setting this up Jason, I will make it sticky.

[Cardy George]

Reckon this is the earliest I've ever signed up to this sort of malarkey

I'll aim for 8000 commuting kays and see where that lands me

[fat and old]

I’m gonna aim to have a consistent year....one I’m not ashamed of displaying to all...

[eldavo]

I started on Jan 2nd return. Normally just clock in my daily commute as a known distance so observe rather than check into the challenge. However after missing Spring 2018 with illness and injury ultimately breaking my routine, I thought it will be a bit of faux accountability.

One for that other thread starting with E that shall not be named. Flaked out in the evening after 1st day back on Jan 2nd and had a lovely 8hrs sleep.
Jan 3rd became a rest day as the rest of the family also slept in after swimming lessons started Jan 2nd, cloudy morning so none of the usual suspects roused early.
Jan 4th AM now wake after I fell asleep in recliner/couch, beat the alarms I did set though, now posting with an hour to kill

[DavidS]

I'm in, we'll see how I go but no commuting until 21 Jan so I'll be playing catch up for quite a while.

DS

[jasonc]

great to see a couple of new names in the challenge. I noticed Cancan isn't in yet. maybe he can't because he's in NZ. I'll lock the challenge off next Monday so he can be in it as I can't have more than one country from memory.

[find_bruce]

Wasn't intending to travel in to work for another week or so, but duty calls so tomorrow I ride

[cancan64]

I have just joined Jason... I just change my country back to Australia, join and then switch back.
Only issue is I am mostly using a Lezyne computer which doesnt sync with endomondo and cant seem to get strava to sync to endomondo so I may log my weeks rides manually. My strava has all my rides and that is open in case anyone wants to keep me honest

[cancan64]

will log the rides for the week in 1 as 1 ride I meant to say not log each day

[jasonc]

I'm good with that. I trust you. You will most likely get me this year

[cancan64]

I'm good with that. I trust you. You will most likely get me this year

I doubt it... I do have a couple of 1500km bikepacking rides coming up so do need to get my km and hills up again but at the same time need to juggle getting home at a reasonable time and get running and dog walks in so will do more than last year but less than previous, well unless i am close near the pointy end and then I may up it again

[Lizzy]

Arright I'm in. Am I going to be the only girl again?? Come on ladies, fight me!

[jasonc]

Arright I'm in. Am I going to be the only girl again?? Come on ladies, fight me!

I'm locking the challenge tomorrow. After then you'll have to request me to re-open it here

[jools]

2 weeks in and I'm pretty sure I have already passed last year's total..

[jasonc]

2 weeks in and I'm pretty sure I have already passed last year's total..

winning!

[jools]

Hey is there a problem with Endomondo at the moment? The app doesn't display the leaderboard and the website gets an error when I try to check the challenge.. is it just me?

[jasonc]

error for me too jools. was working this morning.

[P!N20]

Thanks for setting this up Jason, I will make it sticky.

Can you also fix the thread title? It's not BinachCam or BianchiCam, it's BianchCam. Thanks.

[find_bruce]

Thanks for setting this up Jason, I will make it sticky.

Can you also fix the thread title? It's not BinachCam or BianchiCam, it's BianchCam. Thanks.

Done

[jasonc]

Blame my fat fingers. Thanks fb

[jools]

error for me too jools. was working this morning.

Do you use the app? If you have a look at the challenge does it show the leaderboard? All I see is the totals for the top 3, but no names and no info on other members.

I have logged a support request with endomondo.

[DavidS]

All the challenges I am in are the same, seems to be a problem with all their challenges at the moment.

DS

[jools]

That's good to know, thanks David - I can only manage 1 challenge at a time

[jasonc]

The website is showing an error for me again