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General Discussion => Throw Down the Gauntlet => Topic started by: boy_bye on May 01, 2013, 09:40:04 AM
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Hey everyone,
To give Yolfer a break, I went ahead and made a spreadsheet for tracking our bike miles in May. If you participated in April, then you are on May's spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AirCRkSRGBoOdE95M3dTa2thRHJnS3ZSUjJYTHlSWXc&usp=sharing
I think it's working right, but if you see anything wonky, just let me know!
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Hi madgey, its a view only document for me. Do you need to change some settings to make it editable by all?
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whoops, thanks for the heads up, wanna give it a try now?
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Working perfectly. Cheers :)
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sweet!
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Yes! My May goal is to get so much into the habit of biking that I don't need to buy a transit pass in June.
I feel a little bit disingenuous though, seeing my miles shown as reducing CO2 emissions. The subways, trolleys & busses run whether or not I ride on them...
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I was kind of looking forward to Yolfers April wrap up after such a massive month. Yolfer, you still need to do it! :-)
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Yes! My May goal is to get so much into the habit of biking that I don't need to buy a transit pass in June.
I feel a little bit disingenuous though, seeing my miles shown as reducing CO2 emissions. The subways, trolleys & busses run whether or not I ride on them...
yes, i wonder about that, too ... i see a lot of almost empty buses rattling around my city, spewing giant clouds of black smoke into the air.
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Awesome, added myself! I started biking to work 3 weeks ago and plan to keep it up. Occasionally I'll probably still take public transit if I have to go elsewhere after work or if it's pouring rain (don't wanna do it even if I do get a rain suit!), but I never drive.
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I was kind of looking forward to Yolfers April wrap up after such a massive month. Yolfer, you still need to do it! :-)
yess!
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Often the business insider's "X reasons you should..." are lame. However, I like this one on "13 Reasons You Should Start Biking To Work". Well done!
Unfortunately for us Canadians...no $20 subsidy from government for cycling to work...Hey Harper...you hear that?
http://www.businessinsider.com/13-reasons-you-should-bike-to-work-2013-4# (http://www.businessinsider.com/13-reasons-you-should-bike-to-work-2013-4#)
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I was kind of looking forward to Yolfers April wrap up after such a massive month. Yolfer, you still need to do it! :-)
First off, thank you madgeylou for doing the spreadsheet this month!
Here's the lowdown for April (it's a sunny day here in Seattle so brace yourselves for extra exclamation points!):
This month was EPIC!!!!
A total of 48 riders participated in the month of April, blowing our previous total out of the water!
We biked 8,035mi (12,931km) in the month. That's like biking from Seattle, across the USA to Philadelphia, down to Jacksonville, FL, back over to Los Angeles, and back up to Seattle! It's also 167mi (269km) per person, the highest per-person participation since our first month tracking.
Our total cumulative mileage is.... 32,500 miles!!! (52,303 km) (!!!) That's 1/10th the distance from earth to the moon! We've biked so far, earthbound distances no longer apply!
Since we started tracking, we've saved a total of 16 TONS (14.5 metric TONNNNNES) of co2 from being polluted. That's the same weight as the largest elephant on record. Imagine FACE-PUNCHING an elephant made of pollution so hard, it flies out of our atmosphere! That's what we've accomplished together in just a few months!
I'm really pumped for May, since it's Bike To Work month, and the weather is niiiiice in Seattle.
PS: I made a spreadsheet to track this stuff, you can view it here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Am8qaK8Qf80edGV1dkJvV055b0pKNkZTY3BUZk9pNXc&usp=sharing
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PS: Instead of a monthly question, I added a column for "geographical area" so we can do the City VS City bike battle. I left it free-form so you can put whatever you want (city, region, continent). You could even enter in a place you don't actually live, thereby "donating" your miles to another locale. That's the beauty of the internet...nobody knows where you live for real. Or do they....?
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awesome recap, yolfer! liberal yet excellent usage of exclamation points, too!!! :)
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I was kind of looking forward to Yolfers April wrap up after such a massive month. Yolfer, you still need to do it! :-)
First off, thank you madgeylou for doing the spreadsheet this month!
Here's the lowdown for April (it's a sunny day here in Seattle so brace yourselves for extra exclamation points!):
This month was EPIC!!!!
A total of 48 riders participated in the month of April, blowing our previous total out of the water!
We biked 8,035mi (12,931km) in the month. That's like biking from Seattle, across the USA to Philadelphia, down to Jacksonville, FL, back over to Los Angeles, and back up to Seattle! It's also 167mi (269km) per person, the highest per-person participation since our first month tracking.
Our total cumulative mileage is.... 32,500 miles!!! (52,303 km) (!!!) That's 1/10th the distance from earth to the moon! We've biked so far, earthbound distances no longer apply!
Since we started tracking, we've saved a total of 16 TONS (14.5 metric TONNNNNES) of co2 from being polluted. That's the same weight as the largest elephant on record. Imagine FACE-PUNCHING an elephant made of pollution so hard, it flies out of our atmosphere! That's what we've accomplished together in just a few months!
I'm really pumped for May, since it's Bike To Work month, and the weather is niiiiice in Seattle.
PS: I made a spreadsheet to track this stuff, you can view it here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Am8qaK8Qf80edGV1dkJvV055b0pKNkZTY3BUZk9pNXc&usp=sharing
Thanks Yolfer, that made my day. :-)
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sweet! now that snow is melted I'm back into my 26 mile (daily) work commute
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I'm in for biking this month, but I'm not a fan of competition between Internet friends. I guess it's motivational for some, so good luck and have fun!
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I'm back in for this month - my goal is every day without rain!
. . . I can't remember how I added myself to the master summary before, help?
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I'm back in for this month - my goal is every day without rain!
. . . I can't remember how I added myself to the master summary before, help?
awesomeness, smalllife! i added you to the master summary!
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Thanks Madgeylou for setting us up for another month of great biking! Could you please change the miles-tab in my sheet to kilometres instead?
Cheerio - the mrs
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Thanks Madgeylou for setting us up for another month of great biking! Could you please change the miles-tab in my sheet to kilometres instead?
Cheerio - the mrs
hmm ... i'm not sure how to do that and make it feed into everyone else's totals properly.
anyone with advanced spreadsheet-fu want to lend a hand? :)
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Thanks Madgeylou for setting us up for another month of great biking! Could you please change the miles-tab in my sheet to kilometres instead?
Cheerio - the mrs
hmm ... i'm not sure how to do that and make it feed into everyone else's totals properly.
anyone with advanced spreadsheet-fu want to lend a hand? :)
It should be done but you (Mrs WW) haven't logged any trips yet, so once you do log one, double-check the Master Summary to make sure.
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Since we started tracking, we've saved a total of 16 TONS (14.5 metric TONNNNNES) of co2 from being polluted. That's the same weight as the largest elephant on record. Imagine FACE-PUNCHING an elephant made of pollution so hard, it flies out of our atmosphere! That's what we've accomplished together in just a few months!
So, not sure if this applies to other riders or not, but when I bike, I bike a more direct route than when I drive to work. One way, it's 13.5 miles driving, but only 8.5 miles biking. So, in fact, we may have saved even more than anticipated! I wonder if we could incorporate a "driving miles avoided" column, or if that would over-complicate things. I have my own bike log spreadsheet and I track this as well as my actual biking miles. Over time they have become quite different... in fact, I have traveled only 70% of the miles I would have driven by using my bike!
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Since we started tracking, we've saved a total of 16 TONS (14.5 metric TONNNNNES) of co2 from being polluted. That's the same weight as the largest elephant on record. Imagine FACE-PUNCHING an elephant made of pollution so hard, it flies out of our atmosphere! That's what we've accomplished together in just a few months!
So, not sure if this applies to other riders or not, but when I bike, I bike a more direct route than when I drive to work. One way, it's 13.5 miles driving, but only 8.5 miles biking. So, in fact, we may have saved even more than anticipated! I wonder if we could incorporate a "driving miles avoided" column, or if that would over-complicate things. I have my own bike log spreadsheet and I track this as well as my actual biking miles. Over time they have become quite different... in fact, I have traveled only 70% of the miles I would have driven by using my bike!
I started tracking driving miles avoided. I think they should have more of an impact on your "Total Badassity" but then we would need to come up with a formula for badassity.. can badassity be defined?
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Thanks Madgeylou for setting us up for another month of great biking! Could you please change the miles-tab in my sheet to kilometres instead?
Cheerio - the mrs
hmm ... i'm not sure how to do that and make it feed into everyone else's totals properly.
anyone with advanced spreadsheet-fu want to lend a hand? :)
It should be done but you (Mrs WW) haven't logged any trips yet, so once you do log one, double-check the Master Summary to make sure.
Thank you! I will never be able to navigate around the mile, so thank you!
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Could someone please add me to the challenge spreadsheet? I am SO in this thing! :)
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Could someone please add me to the challenge spreadsheet? I am SO in this thing! :)
Done! Welcome! I put you on team Seattle, but feel free to change that to whatever.
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Thanks, yolfer!
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Well, now that I have pictured the joy of punching an elephant made of pollution in the face, I can't help but join. I feel warm fuzzies inside already, excitement for my first official Mustachian challenge (new reader in the last month or two, but fan of frugal/earthy things for a long time). I'm embarrassed to say that I have a commute of 43 miles, one way, 4-5 days a week. The good thing is, its 15 miles shorter than it would have been from where we were living 2 months ago, and until recently my commute was a walk across the street. I just started going back to school and live in a rural area, so the now house splits the difference from where my hubby and I have to get to.
Days that I "bike" are really days were I drive the first 20 miles to where the bus line starts, bus the next 22 miles, and then bike the last mile to campus. I could hop off the bus sooner to bike further but then I'd have to catch the bus an hour sooner to make it to class on time. So if i bike more, it's because I hop off early in the afternoon when I have more time anyway. I started taking the bus a few weeks ago, and figured out that at current gas prices, I'm saving $8 a day by not driving (the bus pass if free for students). So if I take the bus/bike instead of driving every day then I would save $160 a month!!
Stoked! (even though I won't be adding tons of bike miles, at least I'm reducing car miles).
Could someone add me to the front page please?
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I'm in for tomorrow morning's ride to work! It's about 5 miles each way and pretty much flat, and I ride much further on the weekends for fun, so I should have no trouble! Plus, BC's right -- when else can you say you facepunched an elephant and lived?
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Well, now that I have pictured the joy of punching an elephant made of pollution in the face, I can't help but join. I feel warm fuzzies inside already, excitement for my first official Mustachian challenge (new reader in the last month or two, but fan of frugal/earthy things for a long time). I'm embarrassed to say that I have a commute of 43 miles, one way, 4-5 days a week. The good thing is, its 15 miles shorter than it would have been from where we were living 2 months ago, and until recently my commute was a walk across the street. I just started going back to school and live in a rural area, so the now house splits the difference from where my hubby and I have to get to.
Days that I "bike" are really days were I drive the first 20 miles to where the bus line starts, bus the next 22 miles, and then bike the last mile to campus. I could hop off the bus sooner to bike further but then I'd have to catch the bus an hour sooner to make it to class on time. So if i bike more, it's because I hop off early in the afternoon when I have more time anyway. I started taking the bus a few weeks ago, and figured out that at current gas prices, I'm saving $8 a day by not driving (the bus pass if free for students). So if I take the bus/bike instead of driving every day then I would save $160 a month!!
Stoked! (even though I won't be adding tons of bike miles, at least I'm reducing car miles).
Could someone add me to the front page please?
Done! Welcome! Glad you're here to help us punch pollution elephants! You're totally doing the right thing by starting small on your bike commute and going multi-modal. Who knows, maybe you'll get faster on your bike and can get off the bus earlier without needing to wake up much earlier?
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My daughter loves elephants, and wants to be a veterinarian specializing in them. Please, spare the elephants. :-)
I haven't been online much the past few days, and I think I'm going to stop logging my mileage here as I keep a separate training log elsewhere (and have for years, actually). I'm still riding, and I'll be reading forum posts when I can. I may try to update the log near the end of the month.
Happy riding everyone!
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My daughter loves elephants, and wants to be a veterinarian specializing in them. Please, spare the elephants. :-)
I haven't been online much the past few days, and I think I'm going to stop logging my mileage here as I keep a separate training log elsewhere (and have for years, actually). I'm still riding, and I'll be reading forum posts when I can. I may try to update the log near the end of the month.
Happy riding everyone!
No actual elephants were harmed in the filming of this bike challenge. Only fake elephants made of pollution!
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isnt strava a ginormously easier way of doing this? or do people consider that a privacy violation :)
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What's any easier about it?
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"Done! Welcome! Glad you're here to help us punch pollution elephants! You're totally doing the right thing by starting small on your bike commute and going multi-modal. Who knows, maybe you'll get faster on your bike and can get off the bus earlier without needing to wake up much earlier?"
Thanks Yolfer, glad I can help with the pollution punching! The ride at the end is so short as is the time before class so I'd have to get pretty Ironman to even get off a stop or two early, plus I sweat super easily, but in the afternoon there is much more flexibility, I will ride to the other end of town and then catch the bus sometimes. I have to be strategic about that too because if the bike rack is full on the bus, I have to wait an hour for the next one. But it's great, in fact I'm writing this as I ride the bus.
:)
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What's any easier about it?
what isnt easier about it? create group, join group, watch the auto-generated stats
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You'd have to create a new group when we already have two, and it would still require manual entry for everyone without a smartphone in addition to making everyone get yet another account.
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ah yes, smartphones are pretty rare!
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Maybe not in the MMM community as a whole, but at least somewhat rare in the subset of the community that bikes, I'd wager.
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Not sure who reordered the master list by mileage, but the geographical area question wasn't included in the sort, so they're all mixed up now.
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Not sure who reordered the master list by mileage, but the geographical area question wasn't included in the sort, so they're all mixed up now.
Fixed mine, but not sure what to put for you since you had my region, lol.
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Not sure who reordered the master list by mileage, but the geographical area question wasn't included in the sort, so they're all mixed up now.
In addition to my geographical area getting mixed up, the cell formula that linked to my tab got deleted too...not a big deal, though as I can easily plug that back in.
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I've always biked around for things but this is my first month actually tracking my mileage thanks to a new job and longer bike commute :) I'm glad to join in on the charting fun.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, May has officially come to a close. Let's tally those numbers, shall we? While far from the mileage leaders, I clocked up 167.2 miles! A personal best for me, I do believe. Time to celebrate! I look forward to June's challenge. :) Let's see those numbers grow!
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With May over is there a June challenge up yet? (I don't know how to make spread sheets otherwise I'd start it).
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Hey Y'all, I'm gonna be pretty busy for the next couple days so can someone else do the June spreadsheet?
I'll tally the geographical battle (since I started it), so everyone make sure your city/country is listed properly. I know there was a mixup mid-month and some folks' entries got changed.
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Here is this months thread with the spreadsheet linked
https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/june-mustacian-biking-challenge/
Let me know if anything is wrong and ill try sort it.