| 2012 Commuter Cycling Century Challenge |
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| Rochester Bicycling Club |
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 Welcome to the 2012 Commuter Cycling Century Challenge, now in our seventh year.The Commuter Cycling Century Challenge has a simple goal:Each member attempts to ride to and from work or school on at least 100 days in the calendar year. That's just twice a week for four-season riders, three times a week for three-season riders.
We also recognize PCWs-Perfect Commuting Weeks (commuting every single workday), PCMs-Perfect Commuting Months, and a PCY-Perfect Commuting Year.
Current standings
How to join and report your progressSimply report your commutes by posting in this thread. This thread does not connect to or pull data from your ride log. You have to tell us here.
My role is that of Recording Secretary, not Scorekeeper. You keep your own scores (rides, PCWs, PCMs, PCY, etc). I simply record them in the Standings Table.
Please put all your update info (ride number, milestone dates, PCWs, PCMs, PCY, and distance changes, etc) in the first line of your post. That makes it easier for me to find quickly.
Update as often or as infrequently as you like. We like hearing about everyone else's daily ride and keeping up-to-date. If you want to update only every now-and-again, that's fine too, but we miss you between reports.
Challenge RulesThe rules been mutually agreed upon over the lifespan of this challenge. They provide some degree of confidence that we are all comparing apples to apples. They are not hard-and-fast. We make changes by general consensus when necessary.
- Each round-trip commute counts as one (1) commuting-day.
- Each one-way commute counts as one-half (˝) commuting-day.
- Limit of one commuting-day per calendar day. Remember, we count days, not rides.
- Multi-modal commuting is perfectly fine, as long as there's a bike ride in there somewhere.
- Substitutions: Students may substitute school for work. Volunteers and retirees may substitute their volunteer location for work.
If you ordinarily update from work, there's no need to report only a half-day if you expect to also ride home. Report the whole day. If the fates intervene, we'll deal with it later.Accounting and verificationWe operate on the honor system. I make no attempt to verify or check the accuracy of anyone's postings. Remember, I'm the Recording Secretary, not the Scorekeeper. Obvious math errors or other discrepancies may prompt a request for clarification.Definitions- Commute
- Verb (intr) to travel some distance regularly between one's home and one's place of work — commute. Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition.
- MDAS
- Most Direct And Safe—The Most Direct And Safe ROUND-TRIP distance between your home and workplace. This is not necessarily the shortest possible trip, but the shortest safe trip.
- PCW/PCM/PCY
- Perfect Commuting Week/Month/Year—Commuted by bike every day that you went to work during the period. You can't do any better than this. A PCW, PCM, or PCY string is NOT broken if on a given day a rider does not ride to work for any of the following reasons:
- Working at home.
- Working out-of-town on assignment.
- Jury Duty
Future2013HistoryThis challenge was started by Anquetil63 in 2006, and was maintained by GTDBike from 2007–2010. Previous annual CCCC threads: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011Archive the Standings Table
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thread edited on 12/31/2012 at 5:17:03 PM
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| Rochester Bicycling Club |
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We're back for another exciting year of cycling to work!One of the best things about bicycle commuting is that it can mitigate the displeasure of having to go to work.—BikeSnobNYC As long as you have to go to work, might as well make the best of it and ride your bike there!
Repeat Offenders: I've seeded the Standings Table with everyone who recorded at least one commute in the second half of 2011. You'll also note that PCMs have returned to the standings table.
Please report any updates and corrections to your 2011 standings in the 2011 thread. Wait until after the new year to begin recording commutes in this thread.
New folks: There's no better time to join than now! All we need is your round-trip MDAS miles and you're in.
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post edited on 12/30/2011 at 6:15:45 AM
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I would like to join this challenge for 2012, as I have started regularly commuting to and from work via bike over the past few months now. I am planning to commute by bike in 2012 with exception of extreme weather days.
My only issue/question for me is..... I work 24 hour shift work, so I commute to work one morning, but then don't come home until the following morning.... how should report my rides? In my journal, they are listed as two distinct and separate rides, on two back to back days, but the rules here are that a single commute is both to and from work, round trip. So, do I log my commute for the day I ride in to work? Or do I log it for the day I come home?
Thanks in advance..... I look forward to having this challenge to keep me going 
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I work 24 hour shift work, so I commute to work one morning, but then don't come home until the following morning.... how should report my rides? -- posted by Fireguy
You're not the only shiftworker here. We count "workdays" not "calendar days". So it's no big deal if you go to work on Friday and come home on Saturday. It's still one workday. You don't get extra credit for a particularly long shift, just as I'm not penalized for working part-time.
And by the same token, for those of us who work two jobs in the same day, or work split-shift, it still doesn't change the number workdays, even if it increases the number of rides. That's why we count days, not rides or miles--to level the playing field.
Make sense?
We also level it for weeks. My four-day workweek counts as one, as does someone's seven-day work week, or someone else's three-day workweek. With holidays, vacation or (ugh!) sick time, it's possible to have a one-day workweek. That still counts as a PCW if you ride to work and home again on that one day. A PCW isn't how many calendar days in the week, but how many workdays in the week.
Personally, I set a goal to have the least number of workdays in a PCY.
As for recording the commute to and from work separately in your ride log, I do the same thing. It still doesn't change my number of workdays.
So, what's your MDAS so I can add you to the table?
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post edited on 12/30/2011 at 7:44:07 AM
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I'll join, but have no idea when I'll be able to return to work or the commute distance when I return to work (Id be commuting nearly a century a day if I return to the school I was working at before my accident), whether that commute will be variable if I choose to substitute teach instead of returning as a special education paraprofessional, or whether I'll just end up being able to pass my board exam and return to school for clinical rotations- and where those rotations might be.
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post edited on 12/30/2011 at 9:00:50 AM
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I'll join, but have no idea when I'll be able to return to work or the commute distance when I return to work -- posted by CircaRigel
You're already in the table. Just waiting for you to mend…
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I'm hoping to be back to work sometime in February, Bruce, so keep ol' Raleighdon's name aboard the charter for this years' voyage if you please.
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THANK YOU!!! Very clear, and makes sense to me now... I appreciate that
My MDAS for 2012 will be 40 miles. However, my plan is actually to take a different route home, so that I end up with 50 miles total between the two rides..... 20 miles to work, 30 miles going home.
I start my first shift on January 3rd..... let the bicycle commuting begin for me!!!
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I'm hoping to be back to work sometime in February, Bruce, so keep ol' Raleighdon's name aboard the charter for this years' voyage if you please. -- posted by raleighdon
You too are still in there, my friend.
Meanwhile, you keep mending too.
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THANK YOU!!! Very clear, and makes sense to me now... I appreciate that
My MDAS for 2012 will be 40 miles. -- posted by Fireguy
You're in there!
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I would love to join this challenge. My MDAS is 24 mi. I should be doing my first commute of the year on 6 Jan. Thank you!
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