{"id":461,"date":"2010-05-21T13:27:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T13:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2017-01-12T04:32:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:32:16","slug":"the-june100-cycling-challenge-join-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/the-june100-cycling-challenge-join-us\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>The #June100 Cycling Challenge &#8211; Join Us<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>I Love It When A Plan Comes Together&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>&#8230; as Hannibal (<em>not Lecter, the one off&#8217;ve The A Team<\/em>) said.\u00a0 In my last blog post, I asked for ideas to motivate myself to get more cycling done.\u00a0 <a title=\"Riding The Moor - Jon's blog about riding up big hills in the mud.\" href=\"http:\/\/ridingthemoor.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon<\/a> suggested that the two of us commit to riding <strong>100 miles in June<\/strong>, since so far this year I&#8217;ve only done 117.<\/p>\n<p>One day later, it&#8217;s amassed a bit of interest.\u00a0 So much so that we&#8217;ve spawned a hashtag on Twitter, <strong><em>#June100<\/em><\/strong>, because the list of names didn&#8217;t leave any room to say anything.\u00a0 <strong>June100<\/strong> participant so far include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Chris on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/chrisb112\" target=\"_blank\">Chris<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Emma's varied and interesting blog about everything.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emmarush.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emma<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Joby's rants and ramblings about being a DHM.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biking2work.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Joby<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Riding The Moor - big hills, old bikes, knackered hand...\" href=\"http:\/\/ridingthemoor.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Austin, Belfast Triathlete on a tiny ickle bike\" href=\"http:\/\/couchpotatotoironman.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Toby's excellent blog - a new south coast cyclist getting fit.\" href=\"http:\/\/fatcyclerider.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Toby<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And added since this post was first published: <a title=\"Clive's cracking MTB bloggery\" href=\"http:\/\/massivemtber.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Clive<\/a>, <a title=\"John G blogs about interesting stuff, and games too!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weedoorsbanging.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John<\/a>, <a title=\"Lost Sheep Ramblings - it's another good blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lostsheepramblings.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lost<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The concept was to make sure I was ready for the <a title=\"Join Up &amp; Join Us.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bike-events.com\/Ride.aspx?id=225\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester to Blackpool<\/a>ride on 4th July this year, but we&#8217;re spread acrossthe UK, so we won&#8217;t all be doing that ride.\u00a0 The challenge is just a good way to cajole\u00a0the lazy ones among us\u00a0into achieving the mileage, and for those who&#8217;ll smash the target, it&#8217;ll be a good way to (<em>metaphorically<\/em>) beat their chests!<\/p>\n<h3>So far, the rules are thus:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1st to 30th June<\/strong> 2010<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leisure miles only<\/strong>, no commute miles counted<\/li>\n<li><strong>All miles must be auditable<\/strong>, so GPS log, Garmin records, date-stamped photos of \u00a0bike computers or similar must be kept<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A common area to log the miles will be provided. We&#8217;re working out the best &#8211; <em>or most fun<\/em> &#8211; way to do this at the moment.\u00a0 Suggestions so far range from a simple spreadsheet on Google Docs to a bespoke website.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Update!<\/span><\/em><\/strong> &#8211; The spreadsheet is now <strong><em>LIVE<\/em><\/strong> at <a title=\"Our oogle Docs spreadsheet - check it out and Join Us!\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/9S9NOu\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/9S9NOu<\/a>.\u00a0 Input into the orange boxes and please don&#8217;t kill it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll try to back it up but just &#8211; <em><strong>please<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; dont kill it.<\/p>\n<p>Are with us?\u00a0 Let me know if you&#8217;re signing up.\u00a0 Put your twitter address in the comment if you&#8217;re happy to share it, or just start to follow the <strong><em>#June100<\/em><\/strong>hashtag to keep in touch.\u00a0 Of course you don&#8217;t <em>have<\/em> to use twitter to join in, we&#8217;ll keep it as simple as possible to participate.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>p.s.<\/strong> This is why I cycle. 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It was conceived to motivate me to get on my bike more, since my furthest month so far this year is 53.3 miles over 6 rides in May. It's a shared challenge with aim of helping us all get fitter, faster, not fatter\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cycling Challenges&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":471,"url":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/june100-cycling-challenge-almost-there\/","url_meta":{"origin":461,"position":1},"title":"#June100 Cycling Challenge &#8211; Sign Up Here!","date":"27 May 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Sign Up Now! Thanks to a good idea by Jon, and a few great suggestions by others, I've officially launched the June100 challenge. As I write this, ten intrepid riders have said they want to join in. \u00a0Thank you to those people for piling the pressure on, it's exactly what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cycling Challenges&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"June100 Spreadsheet on Google Docs - Join us by filling the form in.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/June100Spreadsheet-e1274963712732.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":536,"url":"https:\/\/www.phillconnell.com\/blog\/july150-challenge-sign-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":461,"position":2},"title":"The #July150 &#8211; Sign Up Here","date":"30 June 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The #June100 has spawned a monster. It's Summer, it's (so far fairly) dry and we're all loving our cycling, so here it is, sign up right here for the #July150 Cycling Challenge: ... 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