How did you do in the commute challenge?
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Laid back bent rider
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From: Burien, WA
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How did you do in the commute challenge?
I got 594.3 miles in the month. I only rode 21/24 days, but it was every day my office was open. I'm not sure where the other 3 days come from. One was Memorial Day, but what were the other two?
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GATC

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From: south Puget Sound
517 miles. The 2 kids pushed us over 700 for the month. Next year we might do a family team instead of parents w/ their workplaces. I got the kids 'cause my wife's team always wins their categories anyway. (this is not the Group Health thing but a different one running concurrently)
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From: Seattle, Washington, USA
Bikes: 2009 Chris Boedeker custom; 2007 Bill Davidson custom; 2021 Bill Davidson custom gravel bike; 2022 Specialized Turbo Vado e-bike
350 miles. Missed a number of days due to schedule conflicts.
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Matt Pendergast


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From: North Bend, Washington State
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1050 miles. 18 trips, 2 which were to offsite meetings in Renton instead of Bellevue. Wrote about my commute on the Serotta forum w/pics of the route. Pretty nice route.
https://www.serotta.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45861
https://www.serotta.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45861
#7
I go to college Monday through Friday; I work Friday night, Saturday day and/or night, and Sunday day and/or night. It's rough at times, but there are many who have it worse. I'm just really focused on getting my AA in Business, then a Bachelor's in Accounting-I'm actually good at something that pays well, who knew?-then on to CPA-land! I'm taking a break from school this summer, though-after Father's Day, I'm only working weekends for the following two weeks, then I'm going to go on a 4/3 schedule-on four days, off three-and then have a different schedule in the fall! I'm actually pretty burnt right now, and I don't want to repeat this particular grind.
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From: Snohomish, WA
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20 days. 732 miles. I was one of the ten members of the Sterna Paradisaea team which won the mileage competition with 10,073 miles. Six of my teammates had over 1000 miles and two of them were over 1400 miles!
https://www.cbcef.org/contest/btw_rep...cfm?contest=13
https://www.cbcef.org/contest/btw_rep...cfm?contest=13
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From: Snohomish, WA
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The Group Health Commute Challenge allows you to count up to 5 days per week. To get the maximum 24 days, you would have to ride all four days (Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun) of the first week (May 1 - 4) and then either Monday (Memorial Day) or Saturday of the last week.
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Matt Pendergast


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From: North Bend, Washington State
Bikes: 1937 Hobbs; 1977 Bruce Gordon; 1987 Bill Holland; 1988 Schwinn Paramount (Fixed gear); 1999 Fat City Yo Eddy (MTB); 2018 Woodrup (Touring) 2016 Ritchey breakaway
Sterna Paradisaea
Congrats! That's a lot of miles by each member of your team. It was hard to get up and ride some of those days - it felt more like March instead of May alot of the time!





