Endomondo

[phil_hg_uk]

I was just looking at the Challenge: Cycling by Endomondo Sports Tights! which runs from Nov 30, 2011 till Jan 31, 2012 and the leader has done 2371.42 mi WTF

 

[Hacienda71]

Stick to the CC challenges or ones friends have put together and you won't go far wrong. I am a little dubious about turbo or spinning miles though and a few people openly include those in their totals.

 

[Andrew_P]

I was just looking at the Challenge: Cycling by Endomondo Sports Tights! which runs from Nov 30, 2011 till Jan 31, 2012 and the leader has done 2371.42 mi WTF

I was looking at that just now, does some serious miles could be retired I suppose, the picture looks a bit dodgy too lol

Stick to the CC challenges or ones friends have put together and you won't go far wrong. I am a little dubious about turbo or spinning miles though and a few people openly include those in their totals.

Does seem a bit pointless including Spinning etc, but not as pointless as jumping in your car for a circuit or two.

 

[Panter]

Stick to the CC challenges or ones friends have put together and you won't go far wrong. I am a little dubious about turbo or spinning miles though and a few people openly include those in their totals.

+1 I never enter the "open" challenges, there's just no point. Some of these people would have to be cycling 18 hours a day to keep the mileage up.
Even on the CC one, I'm rarely competing for top spot, more usually it's just a placing.
You quickly see the members who do similar sort of mileage to yourself and I'm generally competing against them (well, competing in the broadest possible sense...)

 

[benb]

I do tend to enter the open challenges, just on the offchance I'll get pulled out of the hat, but I never view the leaderboard.

Stick to the CC one, where we are a paragon of virtue, and you'll get a lot out of it.

 

[Monkspeed]

weee I just jumped from 9th to 3rd. I'm so hungry my stomach thinks my throats been cut.

EDIT: And another thing, something weird going on with its counting, because at one point I was on 55km, then I completed a further 20.48km and then a 6.47km.

So 55+20.48+6.47 = 81.95km right? wrong! according to Endo it equals 78km LOL!

 

[tiswas-steve]

I agree, some of the figures on edo do look very strange but if these guys are using motorised transport surely the speed stats would give it away ?
Anyways I like to think us at C,C, are a honest and upstanding members during these challenges and beyond .

 

[Monkspeed]

I agree, some of the figures on edo do look very strange but if these guys are using motorised transport surely the speed stats would give it away ?

Yes they would! unless they hide the stats

 

[tiswas-steve]

Yes they would! unless they hide the stats

Ahhhhhh ... Ok , doesn't make any sense tho does it ? All a bit pointless and completely goes against the whole point of entering in the first place.

 

[Andrew_P]

All you need to do is edit the data, I found this out when my commute had delay in it and I didn't want to skew my overall monthly avg so I changed the time from 1hr 20 to 1hr and it self adjusted everything else.

Wouldn't bother now as Garmin is private and I usethat more for overall stats etc now.

 

[WychwoodTrev]

I am now on this and straight in at #12. Hopefully this will encourage me to get out more this year.

 

[tiswas-steve]

oooooooooh the excitement ive just joined the CC eddy challenge !!
I could wrestle a action man

 

[Moby Jones]

I have just joined the challenge tonight. Last time I tracked any of my rides was back in September. I will just be doing my commute on my new/old MTb with my bag. Be interesting to see where I end up, probably bottom, but hey someone must come last

 

[WychwoodTrev]

OK knocked down to 13th now and wont be out on the bike til weekend and feel full of cold today, Hope I feel better for the weekend

 

[jefmcg]

Endomondo set me up for a big cheat this morning. It decided as I left my house I'd already done 73km, and only intermittently updated the time, so I ended up doing 99.15km in 31 minutes with an average speed of 51kph (~31mph) but a top speed of 21kph.

Actually, that was only after I corrected the distance. Average speed was originally 190kph!