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Coffee from Circle C Ranch Cycling Club
I take back everything bad I said about Circle C Ranch Cycling Club.
They delivered an iced coffee — by bike — to me today.
Tom Dobbs and Bill Maroon rolled up, cup of iced joe in hand, so I didn’t have to make the long quarter-mile trip over to Dominican Joe’s to take my own coffee break. That way, they got to log a couple of trips each while I sat on my butt in my cube.
That’s Bill in the photos.
We’re all participating in the Austin Commuter Challenge, a 30-day team contest to see who can log the most trips by bike.
I griped a few weeks back about the Circle C team, because a couple of members were logging trips to the community mailbox and making ridiculous numbers of trips to the nearby Starbuck’s, just so they could count the trips in the contest.
Some might call it sand bagging.
It turns out the team I really need to be ragging on is Team Bike Mojo, where rider “eereid” on Thursday logged a round trip ride of 0.14 miles to the mailbox and counted it as TWO trips!
That’s just pathetic.
Team Statesman, in the meantime, continues to make steady progress.
We’re in eighth place out of 58 teams at the moment. We’ve collectively logged 1,459 miles since May 1.
If the contest were based on mileage alone, we’d be in fourth place!
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By BillTCat
May 23, 2010 6:32 PM | Link to this
I don’t think you can really say Team Bike Mojo is sandbagging it considering we have racked up the most miles of all the teams out there (3671 miles in the points competition and 3643 miles for the miles competition) !! You don’t rack those up 0.1 miles at a time.
By Eric
May 24, 2010 9:15 AM | Link to this
…in addition to what BillTCat said, BikeMojo has one of the highest miles/trip at ~5 miles/trip (as of 5/24) .
By Pam LeBlanc
May 24, 2010 9:52 AM | Link to this
Yes, yes, Bike Mojo has great total mileage. I still think logging a .14 mile jaunt as two trips is, um, kind of funny. The good news is that the contest is getting folks out there on their bikes! Wheeee! Pam