Keeping Score

[pooks]

I am registered there and I log my total miles there. I also log my weight there and keep it private, ahem. But to keep the pressure on myself, I am keeping the records on my blog where people who know me personally can see them, and ask my why I'm slacking (if I am).

And I was really glad that I decided to log the green miles. That's one of my reasons for getting a bike, and it's sometimes hard to convince yourself that the .5 mile here or 1.6 miles there is worth the effort, but I think that seeing the miles increase will make it more real and important to me, and maybe inspire some of my friends to do the same.

[Deanna]

I log all my miles on bikejournal.com and my commute miles also get logged on my clubs website: http://www.srcc.com/cgi_bin/commute.pl . They have a raffle at our year end meeting--the number of entries you get is determined by the number of trips and miles you commute by bike. Maybe you and your friends can do something similar.

[yellow]

pooks, I log my cycling on bikejournal but since I do lots of other stuff, I also keep a private Excel spreadsheet that is much more detailed. I heard (read?) a rumor on BJ a while back that maybe, just maybe, the database might be altered so that we can include other activities (such as running and swimming). So stay tuned in to BJ.

[mimitabby]

I am on bikejournal too. Before i heard of team estrogen, i watched my husband recording all of HIS miles on bikejournal and thought he was being really silly.

Then i got the idea of team spirit and i've been hooked ever since!

[pooks]

I log all my miles on bikejournal.com and my commute miles also get logged on my clubs website: http://www.srcc.com/cgi_bin/commute.pl . They have a raffle at our year end meeting--the number of entries you get is determined by the number of trips and miles you commute by bike.

That's a really cool idea. I admire people who bike-commute, too. That would be really challenging, between battling rush hour traffic and arriving (in my case) dripping with ... um ... a ladylike glow.

[Deanna]

That's a really cool idea. I admire people who bike-commute, too. That would be really challenging, between battling rush hour traffic and arriving (in my case) dripping with ... um ... a ladylike glow.

We define "commute" pretty broadly--any thing you do by bike instead of car. Including riding to the official start point of a club ride. So your green miles all count as commute miles. Trips add up pretty quickly too: a round trip counts as two trips. If I stop at the store on the way home, that brings the trip count up to three.

[dachshund]

Bikejournal allows you to specify a club, like TE, I take it? I wandered over there once, but you have to register to see anything. I guess that was 30 seconds I didn't have at the time.

[Geonz]

Go ahead, register! And count your miles for Team Estrogen! We're still in the top ten, I think... I"m shooting to get in the top 250...

I'm just trying to keep bike miles greater than car miles, which includes a lot of commuting and errand running. (Of course, with the Xtracycle, I don't have to do a lot of thinking about errands.) The trip to Maryland (1500 miles at least) will make things a little closer... hard to guage which miles are "green" when I turn a 15 mile commute into a 44 mile one 'cause it's a nice day. If I pick up a few aluminum cans to recycle along the way it's even greener :-)

Every mile counts! And every time somebody sees you, RIDING, they just maybe might think "hey, that's something to think about!"

http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Practic...ing/index.html has some neat info & inspiration :-) I *love* waiting two months between visits to the gas station. I s'pose I could be getting my hair cut more often.

[KnottedYet]

Dachshund - the various Different Spokes clubs are also on bikejournal.