whee - winter campaign!

[lph]

As I maybe mentioned in another post, we have a nation-wide "Ride your bike to work"-campaign in spring, that runs May to June. My company has always participated and it generates a lot of friendly competing and minor arguments as to whether total no. of days biked or total no. of km. biked is more "worthy". (Km, of course!!) You can win a (not very good) bike and a few small prizes.

Anyway, a few weeks ago I started my own small winter campaign, sent an email to a handful of biking colleagues, and encouraged them to pass it on. So far 18 people have signed up, but only about 10 of them are actively logging their rides.

But somebody got the idea that we should have prizes and hoo-hah too, so suddenly today we're on the company intranet, with this picture, meant to illustrate that one can bike in winter either with all the cool gear (that's me on the left) OR in a more urban, feminine manner (that's my colleague Tharan on the right). In the picture I'm pointing out how her fresh lipstick underlines her point...

And the sign in the background says "Parking for company vehicles only". Cool pic, huh?


PS. It IS winter here, even though there's green grass in the picture. Had a snowfall on Monday, most of it rained away and the temperature is now around freezing. Up where I live there's ice everywhere.

[nuthatch]

So THAT'S what I've been doing wrong for Bike to Work week at my office! No prizes! Maybe if I offer prizes I'll get someone besides me to participate!

Thanks for the picture - It's always fun to see someone's set up for riding in the cold.

[lph]

Well, actually, in my original e-mail invitation I pointed out that the only thing one could win was street cred and the adoration of incredulous colleagues

But the company "sports organization", no idea how to translate that one, (athletic society?) wanted to offer prizes, I think reflective vests and blinky lights.

I don't really expect anyone else to sign up, but we do get some nice PR.

[nuthatch]

Heck, I'm impressed with your company having some sort of employee health program. The only approved exercise at my small company is walking from your desk to the kitchen for coffee and cake!

Good luck with your recruiting!

[Geonz]

Great pic!!!

Gear is everything I'm so grateful for my gore-tex gift... it's made it possible to stay ahead of Howard in mileage a few more days because a few gusts and drizzles don't get in my way...

[nuthatch]

It's gonna gust you right into a field today! 45 mph gusts up here in north IL.