Hi everyone,
Whether you know it or not, the Gainesville Cycling Club is still actively involved in the National Bike Challenge -
http://nationalbikechallenge.orgWhile yours
truly has been remiss with team motivation for 2015, this hasn't stopped people
such as Lambert Vaes, Scott Erker, Jodi Schulz, Larry Pahman and so many others, from
continuing with the club's participation in the 2015 challenge.
Unfortunately, the GCC is not enjoying the dominating lead it had last year over the teams in second and third place. At the time of writing, the GCC holds a very slender lead over a team from Washington D.C. - a team that is comprised of two teams - such is the desire for the Washington D.C. combined team to crush the humble GCC team.
The Washington D.C. team is motivated, to the point of making fancy graphs to plot their progress vs the GCC, and talking rubbish on their forum. Sample comments from the BikeArlingtonForum.com
"It's hotter here AND we have hills. Gainseville=slackers." by Cyclingfool.
"Can't we get that first place rider who is putting in something like
75,000 miles this year to join our team. We can offer him cool Bike
Arlington Swag right?" by Mikey.
What is the GCC going to do about this?
1. During this Sunday's GCC board meeting, we decided there will be a VICTORY PARTY, assuming we win :). We would like to recognize members who participated in the challenge, in particular those who contributed by logging consistent miles, big or small - remember, ONE MILE A DAY is what counts - consistency.
Details to follow soon, but this event will likely involve bikes and beer, and possibly some other rewards. More on this later.
2. The club will hold a social bike ride / beer socialization get together shortly at one of the local Gainesville breweries. We'd like to get as many riders to attend as possible - ride some miles (and log them), followed by chit chat and beers post ride - similar to what happened at the Sportody Bikes and Beers event last Tuesday.
3. We'd like to see the GCC win the Teams title for the 3rd year running. Without club members contributing, that is not possible. Right now, we have 383 riders on our team. Yet, only 262 members have logged mileage for the challenge period, several of whom haven't logged miles in two months. We have 1,000+ members in the club - we'd like to see more participation.