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Old 01-06-10 | 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by jeffpoulin
If it were commuting only, would you participate? I, for one, would like to see you in this year.
More than likely. But I'd like to see some baselines. Commuting to me is back and forth to work/school/etc, or at a stretch, utility riding (to the store, etc). The century you may do on Sunday, or the 25 mile recreational ride that you did in full kit on your carbon fiber road bike carrying nothing more than a smile really isn't commuting IMHO. If you did 20 miles on your road bike in full kit wearing nothing but a smile to work/school/etc it sure should count. If start point is home and end point is work or vice versa and you took the scenic route or stopped at the store it should all count. But a "commute" in a car isn't a trip to the department store on Saturday, so it really shouldn't be counted on a bike either IMHO.

Here's an example... I had XXX *commuting* miles last year.. but XXX total miles for the year. Difference was nearly 3500mi. Almost a 3.5k difference is enough to skew the numbers, and you (briefly) had one here at the top of the heap in the 2010 list because of a recreational ride. If we got to the end of 2009 and you had been reporting commuting miles and I beat you out because I'd been reporting all miles instead it's not really fair to you. Mind you, I'm not faulting him/her because of reporting it, it's really no other reason than it's not clearly defined.

And yeah, I'm competitive by nature before that question gets asked. But it begs the larger question of "define commuting" that has started more than one holy war around here, something I'm really not trying to do.

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