TE Challenge

[LBTC]

You'll get there, CC. Keep positive! Take care of that knee!

I'm a BJ member, too, and DH just put the computer on my new road bike, so I'll be able to track my indoor trainer km's as soon as I get on the bike. I'm struck with a bad cold, so haven't ridden yet this year....the ride I did on the 31st can't count!

Go Team TE!

Hugs & Butterflies,
~T~

[RoadRaven]

Good one, Spin

This will be my second year there. I'm aiming for 700 more kms than I got in 2007

Good to try and intice TE lurkers..... they don't have to post to the forum here or in BikeJournal... just log their kms each day (or fill in their rides once a week like I do once I am back at work.

And remember - you don't have to allow others to see your kms/miles... but they still contribute to TE's overall talley.

[Pax]

I joined in September and forgot about it, I just went over and added my paltry 20 (indoor ) miles for the year.

[Jo-n-NY]

Me too, this will be my third year logging miles on BJ. I logged 2200+ miles this year for TE. My first ride this year will be Saturday although it will be trainer miles because I have a nasty cold. ugh

~ JoAnn

[Thorn]

In again...TE got me hooked last year. Glad to see there are more TE-ers listed this year.

CA -- you just have to keep reminding yourself that you tell the journal what you rode; the journal does not dictate to you how many miles you should ride! Then it stays fun.

I never kept track of miles before. I was amazed at what it came out to. Not bad for a 50-ish year old desk jockey.

[firenze11]

Done! I guess I have to get a cheap computer to keep track of my indoor miles.

[Bad JuJu]

This will be my second full year on Bike Journal in the TE club. Last year, I didn't quite reach 2000 miles (came in 89 miles under): rats rats rats! But this is a new year and a new opportunity--and maybe even a new bike--who knows?

[KnottedYet]

I seem to go great gang-busters with my mileage at the beginning of the year, then gradually forget to enter miles until by the end of the year I'm not entering any miles at all.

This year I bought a computer for my commuter, and I'm gonna try to stick with putting the miles on BikeJournal *all* year. (Inspired by Pansy and RD but my goal is 1/8 theirs!)

[RoadRaven]

Done! I guess I have to get a cheap computer to keep track of my indoor miles.

No, not really
You could make an excel spread sheet and set it up to tally your time indoors, time outdoors, indoor miles, outdoor miles, and any other number stats you want to put in.

(I recently made an excel spreadsheet but it only has monthly road miles in it which it adds to monthly totals, yearly totals, and monthly averages.)

You could also get a small journal/notebook and put your miles in that.
I always do this - partly because I don't always have access to the PC (or can be bothered booting it after a long day) and also because I do not trust that my hard drive will be there forever - or that BikeJournal will always be available when I want it to be.

When I first started cycling I would record everything in my (hard copy)journal - time of day, temperature, max and average heart rates...
Now I have only a few columns...

Date / Bike Ridden / Total Kilometres / Total Time
(Written like this;
Date/Bike/KM/Time

The rest of each line is for any other details - always the course ridden, but sometimes who I rode with or the temp if very cold or very hot, or if there was a nasty wind or rain. I always make note if it was a club race or event (and my place if I get placed). I also note if I am sick, and when I have my period.

So you don't need two computers... unless you really want to...

[HillSlugger]

Thank you so much for this thread as I was also thinking that if we got just more members posting miles we'd be able to easily move up in the ranks.

I joined last year so that I could do the 2500 mile challenge. I was thinking why bother with it this year since I log everything on Beginner Triathlete but realized I'd still be contributing to TE. I'll also continue to log because I like the way it tracks yearly and lifetime miles for each bike and also for different tires, etc.