Congratulations to all of our participants on a great season! Thanks for helping us clock OVER 20,000 miles and reducing our carbon footprint by over 20,000 lbs. of CO2.

Special congratulations to our Sole Power Individual and Team Winners!

INDIVIDUAL WINNERS - MILES

Bill Carlson, coming in first with over 1300 miles, spent lots of time on his bike this year, biking to dinner with friends and walking to do LOTS of restaurant inspections. Oustanding Job.

Coming in second, Mike Phillips aka, 060Roller at a whopping 1247 miles! Mike, let’s hear your story! How’d you do it?

Not far behind, in third place we have Connie Jorck, aka Connie at an amazing 1218 miles, Great job Connie, how did YOU do it?

In 4th place, Jessica Foulis, aka jgfoulis at 1060 miles! Great job Jessica, we’d love to hear from you!

and coming in 5th we have Rob Levine, who I have been bragging about ever since he logged his miles traveling to Denver for a business meeting : Check out Rob’s amazing tale at his blog: “The Rest Of The Story” … www.antlersvail.com/2011/08/13287/ 

INDIVIDUAL WINNERS - TRIPS

Not to be overlooked, some of our commuters had shorter trips, but sometimes rode to work just about every day, way to go guys! Tell us how you did it!

#1 Rachel Van Sloun, aka, rachelvs, 159 trips

#2 Connie Jorck, 146 trips

#3 Mike Phillips, 135 trips

#4 Heidi Schoedel, aka heidi8817,  108 trips

#5 Kip Tingle, 99 trips

And Finally, a huge Congratulations to our 2011 TEAM Winners. Remember this year we thought it was only fair to calculate winners based on number of team members. So…drumroll please..

OVERALL WINNERS FOR NUMBER OF MILES AND TRIPS

#1 - WEST VAIL LIQUOR MART won the challenge in both MILES AND TRIPS per person with the least amount of participants (5), over 2400 miles!  (By the way, even it we weren’t calculating per person miles, this team clocked the most miles overall anyway!) Great Job Guys!

#2 - Team Oakes came in second for trips and miles at 82 trips and 595 miles with only 2 participants!  Awesome!

WINNERS BY # OF MILES PER PERSON ONLY

In miles, at #3 behind West Vail Liquor Mart and Team Oaks, Vail Mountain School with 3 participants logging  809 miles! - Followed by Beaver Creek Ski School, 6 participants logging over 1300 miles, and the Antlers at Vail, 9 participants, over 1700 miles!

WINNERS BY # OF TRIPS PER PERSON ONLY  

Coming in third for trips behind West Vail Liquor Mart and Team Oaks, we have the Truebloods, with 4 participants logging 107 trips, followed by Beaver Creek Ski School logging 156 trips, and Vail Mountain School logging 74 trips.

Look for the upcoming ad in the Vail Daily recognizing our winners, and don’t forget to send a representative from your team to the October 7th Party at the Vail Chophouse to claim your award and prize!

Thanks to all the participants for a great year, and a huge thank-you to our sponsors!

Keep your eye on the blog for updates to the program, and keep the new ideas comin’!

Kristen

p.s. anybody want to try a winter challenge ; ) ?

Good Afternoon Sole Power! Sad to see the day come, but alas, today is the last day to log your miles.. (despite what the ad in the Vail Daily says, they accidentally ran an old ad) and we are only 236 miles away from hitting the 20,000 mark! Can you help us get there? it’s a beautiful day, get out there! There are awesome prizes up for grabs, the last raffle before the end of season party at the Vail Chophouse on October 7th. It will be a happy hour event, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., great food and appetizers along with prizes for our winners and a raffle.  

Just curious if anyone else bikes year round, or doesn’t own a car.  Probably a rare thing out here due to snowfall, but I’m hoping I can keep bike commuting in the winter months!  Rock on, fellow peddlers!

Good Afternoon Sole Power! What an awesome season this has been! Almost to 20,000 miles, can you help us get there? The Challenge officially ends next Friday, September 16th!! The End of Season Party will be held at the Vail Chophouse on October 7th. Details to follow, but mark your calendar - great prizes, food and drinks for all!

It’s more fun watching the leaderboards in “real time” than having someone store up their miles and post them all at once.  I’m not into rules, and wouldn’t suggest you HAVE to, but would love to ask if people could please post their miles promptly.

Call me crazy, but last week I rode to a business meeting in Denver, JUST so I could pick up 140 solepower miles!

I have been counting to and from work or errand as 1 trip. If I ride to work and get a car ride home it is still 1 trip.  If  I run an errand on the way to work I count just 1 trip. This just seems the easy and sensible  way to count trips. 

Good Afternoon All! Don’t forget to log your miles for this week to be eligible for this week’s raffle. Thanks to West Vail Liquor Mart, Yeti’s Grind, Big Bear Bistro, and Pazzos’s we have great gift cards this week!

Also, check out this inspiring video and note from 350.org, the folks working around the globe to fight climate change:

www.moving-planet.org/video

You probably know that people around the world are getting ready for “Moving Planet”, the big, bold, beautiful day of climate action that’s happening this September 24th. But chances are, there are some people in your network that don’t yet know about the big day.
This video lays out an inspiring vision that can help spread the movement far and wide: take 90 seconds to watch it, and then share it with everyone you know.
On September 24th, we’ll come together in every nation on earth to show that we’re moving the planet beyond fossil fuels. The diversity of events will be remarkable: people are planning marches large and small, bike parades that deliver petitions demanding a clean energy future, and even a kite-powered protest on the beach.

I agree with the July 28 post. 

I would not start counting half trips, but I would not count a round trip that is 10 miles (5 miles each way) as two trips. It would just be one trip. If a person is intending to only bike/walk one way then that is still one trip.