How does the challenge work?
The 9th annual Bike to Work Week
The Worksite Challenge
Are you “the bike commuter” where you work? If so we need your help!
We need you to help inspire your co-workers to try bike commuting, if just for this one week. Maybe they’ll see the light and keep going, but they might not ever try it without your prodding. Bike to Work Week is your “in”!
Please sign your worksite up and become the “Worksite Coordinator”. We’ll get you materials to help promote Bike to Work Week, or you can download them here.
Bike to Work Week is much more than just the Worksite Challenge. It is a full week of fun and exciting bike-centric events and festivities around town. Anyone interested in helping our community as well as the environment can volunteer to help out at other events by contacting us via e-mail here.
The Basics:
- Workplaces of any size may compete in the 2010 BTWW Worksite Challenge. We recommend that large workplaces (over 50) break into smaller worksites for ease of recording by their designated Worksite Coordinator; however, there is no maximum or minimum size for worksites.
- Worksite registration will begin in March and will continue through the end of Bike to Work Week.
- All worksites that are registered before May 1st will have pre-printed promotional items and additional challenge information availale for pick-up at designated locations.
- All materials will be available online once the pick-up locations are announced.
- The worksite challenge officially begins on Monday, May 17th.
- The worksite challenge officially ends on Friday, May 21st.
- FBO will take the number of employees at each worksite who worked that day, substract out any pedestrian commuters, and divide that result into the total number of reported bicycle commuters. All of these numbers are provided by the worksite coordinators.
- The winning worksite will be based on the total of all five days’ worksite scores.
- Flagstaff Biking Oranization will announce the worksite category winners Monday, May 24th, on the website.
- The winning worksite will be given a Breezer commuter bike for worksite errands or shared daily commuting.
- Flagstaff Bikiing will draw from the list of entered bicycle commuter for raffle prizes every day of the week.
Worksite Challenge Rules:
- The worksite challenge officially takes place from Monday May 17th at 12:00am until Friday May 21st at 11:59pm. Log-ins for each day must be completed by 11:59pm on the day for which data is being entered.
- A worksite’s size category will be based on the average daily number of reported people at the worksite throughout the week. Individual categories will therefore not be official until after the close of the challenge on Friday. All worksites will choose a size based on the coordinator’s best guess, Flastaff Biking will adjust before final judging if necessary.
- Large worksites will have a minimum average of 40 people at work each day of the challenge.
- Medium worksites will have an average between 11 and 39 people at work each day of the challenge
- Worksites smaller than 11, or unaffiliated commuters, will not qualify for the Breezer bicycle, but all participants have an equal chance at raffle prizes throughout the week. Worksites with 6 to 10 people will be competing for lunch at Diablo Burger!
- The worksite coordinator must log-in each day and report their worksite total count as well as the number of people that walk to work.
- The worksite coordinator should log-in their riding commuters once they know that each person has biked to work that day. Each person can only be logged in once per day.
- Redundant entries will be deleted. Please do not cheat. If cheating takes place, the team will be disqualified from the challenge and daily raffle drawings.
- Registering Worksite must be legitimate businesses found on the internet or yellow pages.
- If the challenge is tied after the 5 days, the winning team will have the longest average miles per person commuted.
- “Bus-N-Bike” or “Park-N-Bike” cyclists can take the bus or drive for a portion of their commute, but only the portion ridden on the bike counts for the “round trip distance”.
- If a bike is used for running errands, those miles can be included in the round trip miles. Recreational cycling does not count toward your commuter miles, only those miles you would have used a car for otherwise.
- If the winner of the challenge refuses the Breezer Bicycle, it reverts to FBO’s possession. It is on permanent loan to the winner.
- No commutes less than a half block (180’) count. Are you really suggesting you were going to drive your car that far?
Any Questions?
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