Week 2 Totals
Midway through June and city cyclists participating in our community league bike-off have logged 52,684 km. That’s far more than we ever dreamed members would ride.
“When we started out, we just wanted members to feel part of a group effort while having fun on their own and getting outside after months in lockdown,” says Dan Tyrkalo, Ritchie’s director of events. The committee thought 1922 km (the year Ritchie Community League was founded) would be an attainable goal. In just two weeks, Ritchie members have ridden 8,925 km. Wow!
“Then we asked Hazeldean and Strathcona if they wanted a little friendly competition and the idea took off.”
There are now 19 leagues involved, each reporting its collective total weekly. The competition runs until the end of June.
“We’ve changed the goal. Now we want to reach 100,000 km and we want the whole city to help us get there.”
Participate by recording your kilometres one of two ways:
Automatically record your bike travel via the Strava app by joining your league’s club (see below). Ritchie join: https://www.strava.com/clubs/ritchie-united-670834 or e-mail kms: ritchie-united@ritchie-league.com. (E-mail weekly, by Sunday night.)
Manually record your own kilometres and e-mail them to your league contact.
Only kilometres biked in the month of June count towards the total.
DON’T SEE YOUR LEAGUE?! Get ‘em to talk to Dan through Ritchie’s Facebook.
Totals reported as of 11 p.m. June 15.
Competing community leagues include:
Avonmore STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/avonmoreCL
Bonnie Doon STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/674678
Email: bike@bonniedoon.caCloverdale Email: socialdirector@cloverdalecommunity.com
Delwood STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/Delwood
Downtown CL STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/675701
Forest Heights STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/675434
Glastonbury - Granville, the Grange and Parkland STRAVA:
https://www.strava.com/clubs/GlastonburyCommunityGrovenor STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/grovenor
Hazeldean STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/hazeldean-cyclists-674105
King Edward Park STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/675043
Malmo Plains STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/malmo_pedals
Oak Hills STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/cycleOakHills
Oliver STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/oliverbikeclub
Queen Alexandra STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/queen-alexandra-673321
Riverdale STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/riverdale
Strathcona STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/BikeSCCL
Email: green@strathconacommunity.caStrathern STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/674813
Westridge STRAVA: https://www.strava.com/clubs/685544