Quote Originally Posted by malkin View Post
I like the collective distance idea, like our total mileage has reached Next Door, New York, The Moon, Mars...etc. And now, we are collectively so strong that we can pull ourselves out of a black hole!

I want to work where you work! Do you need a speech therapist there? I even speak Norwegian a little bit.
Really? Cool, how come?

I was suddenly reminded of the cute English guy I met at a course on Spitsbergen. Before the evening was out I had taught him some "essential Norwegian" to say to any pretty girl.... it was "will you take me home?"

The winter challenge is progressing thusly:
I've recruited a "bike guide" for each major bike route/direction in to work, seven altogether, so anyone who wants to can join in on a joint bike ride to work on the first day of the challenge (Nov 1st). We have to post details of each route and timing in advance. We should reach our workplace roughly at the same time, where I'll fix some fruit and cookies waiting, maybe hot spiced apple juice (tasted it the other day, it was amazing).

I'm planning to challenge the bosses and middle-leaders especially - I'm thinking of making a semi-personal card that says something like "if you're going to ride to work one day this winter, make it Nov. 1st", and then something like "your closest bike guide is <insert name> and he/she'll be riding from XX at YY. Join us for the ride!" I'd like to make the challenge to them more visible so that they'll get props from their employees, but unsure as how to do this. And of course I have to challenge our Big Boss, and tell everyone I've done so

Haven't got the mechanic yet, but ideally we should have him over a few days before the challenge, so that nobody can wimp out because of mechanical problems. And am definitely going for the blog idea, with ample coverage from the first day of the challenge. I think people will like seeing pictures of themselves and being mentioned by name in a positive group setting.

And definitely going for the group distance thing! "As far as the moon", wonderful I'm going to ask the guy who gave me the idea to pick out some suitably exotic locations as virtual destinatuions.