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2012 Cleveland Bike Challenge comes to an end on Friday August 31. Don’t worry you can keep logging your miles and prepare for the next Challenge, but this year’s competition will end on Friday, August 31st. Thanks to everyone who participated in the first annual Bike Challenge, with only 3 days remaining we have pedaled over 240,000, that's enough miles to get all the way to the moon, impressive!
Lots of great stories have emerged about how the Challenge has motivated people to ride more.
As we wrap up this years Challenge we would like to get your feedback on how it went, would you participate again, and if you feel like participation in the challenge encouraged you to bike more, please take a moment and complete the Cleveland Bike Challenge survey. Your response will help us improve the challenge for future years, plus if you complete the survey you will be entered in to win one of 5 Bike Cleveland T-Shirts (just provide your contact info at the end of the survey).
Thank you to the Bike Challenge Sponsors
The Cleveland Bike Challenge was sponsored locally by Squire Sanders, Affordable Uniforms, the Cleveland Bike Rack, and NOACA. Thanks to their generous support of the Cleveland Bike Challenge Greater Cleveland burned off over 4,000 hamburgers this summer.
Our thanks also go out to our national sponsors Kimberly Clark, League of American Bicyclists, and Bikes Belong, who worked with Endomondo to develop the National Bike Challenge platform.
The Cleveland Metroparks is building a route finder app for the Greater Cleveland area to help users identify and use trails and bikeable roads in the region both for transportation and recreation. Cleveland Metroparks is interested in getting GPS traces and other representations of favored commute routes and recreational rides in order to "feed" the system with the riding experience, expertise, and preferences of bicyclists in the region in order to make the tool work better. Do you have a favorite ride or your favorite commute route you would like to share? Here is how you, as a Cleveland Bike Challenge participant, can help.
If you use the Endomondo Phone App to track your bike trips you can export your trip as a "GPX" file. On your Endomondo Profile click on your "workouts," click on your favorite ride and on the bottom right hand side, click "Export," then select "GPX." Once the file is downloaded simply email it to Map@BikeCleveland.org. Help make the route finding app as useful as possible by providing your preferred commuting and recreation routes. Watch for an announcement of the application by the end of the year.
