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  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
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    Dossards Time

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  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
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  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
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  • Jakess1971
    Jakess1971 Posts: 1,208 Member
    edited January 2016
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    Nice one Mark :)

    Now the question is can any of the newly promoted riders stay up?
  • trimom10
    trimom10 Posts: 388 Member
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    Thanks Mark for updating the dossards!
  • ntnunk
    ntnunk Posts: 936 Member
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    Thanks for the dossards Mark!

    @Jakess1971 this newly demoted rider is going back up!
  • Jakess1971
    Jakess1971 Posts: 1,208 Member
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    That's the spirit.
  • Jakess1971
    Jakess1971 Posts: 1,208 Member
    edited January 2016
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    ntnunk wrote: »

    @Jakess1971 this newly demoted rider is going back up!

    Make sure you log at least once a week to stay in, gotta be in it to win it! ;)

    We have an early exit from the challenge policy for 7 days logging absence, this might seem mean but it ensures the spreadsheet is always relevant and the current set of participants are active.

  • ntnunk
    ntnunk Posts: 936 Member
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    Jakess1971 wrote: »
    Make sure you log at least once a week to stay in, gotta be in it to win it! ;)

    We have an early exit from the challenge policy for 7 days logging absence, this might seem mean but it ensures the spreadsheet is always relevant and the current set of participants are active.
    Seems like a reasonable policy to me. Log updated. Meant to do it last night and just got sidetracked post-ride.

  • Jakess1971
    Jakess1971 Posts: 1,208 Member
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    ntnunk wrote: »
    Jakess1971 wrote: »
    Make sure you log at least once a week to stay in, gotta be in it to win it! ;)

    We have an early exit from the challenge policy for 7 days logging absence, this might seem mean but it ensures the spreadsheet is always relevant and the current set of participants are active.
    Seems like a reasonable policy to me. Log updated. Meant to do it last night and just got sidetracked post-ride.

    Nice one, thanks Noel.
  • Spatialized
    Spatialized Posts: 623 Member
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    Is there a January challenge (like the snowman pic etc) yet or did I miss it? Trying to get extras as I can since most bonus points are not in my realm of doing.
  • m1xm0d3
    m1xm0d3 Posts: 1,576 Member
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    Anyone else have trouble with sensor connection during the FTP test? My output dropped to zero like 10 times during the 75 minute ride, usually 2-4 seconds at a time. It made me fail one of the 30 second output targets. Seems to happen only during the FTP test, not a regular course ride. I do have a USB extender connected to the dongle. >_<
  • ntnunk
    ntnunk Posts: 936 Member
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    m1xm0d3 wrote: »
    Anyone else have trouble with sensor connection during the FTP test? My output dropped to zero like 10 times during the 75 minute ride, usually 2-4 seconds at a time. It made me fail one of the 30 second output targets. Seems to happen only during the FTP test, not a regular course ride. I do have a USB extender connected to the dongle. >_<

    I haven't had that issue. I've done one partial and one full (short) FTP test over the last few weeks. No (technical) problems.
  • Jakess1971
    Jakess1971 Posts: 1,208 Member
    edited January 2016
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    Spatialized wrote: »
    Is there a January challenge (like the snowman pic etc) yet or did I miss it? Trying to get extras as I can since most bonus points are not in my realm of doing.

    Sorry no real other bonus points planned, I may give this some more thought in the future but so far the claimed picture bonus points have been dodgy and not really in the spirit of the challenge, particularly the Christmas and snowman ones so far, deflated inflatables and such like so I'm not inclined to offer any more of these kind of bonus points.

    Points for Jan & Feb will be down to good hard sweat on the bike ;)
  • L_Master
    L_Master Posts: 354 Member
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    Too late to join? Or can you jump in at any time?
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
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    About two and a half months late I'm afraid.
  • Jakess1971
    Jakess1971 Posts: 1,208 Member
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    L_Master wrote: »
    Too late to join? Or can you jump in at any time?

    Look out for the Grand Tour and other challenges that are due in a couple of months.
  • Jakess1971
    Jakess1971 Posts: 1,208 Member
    edited January 2016
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    I think I have a nicer ruling on people who fail to log in 7 days especially at this stage ... not that it's been a problem lately, rather then heave ho them off the challenge and sending reminders which is a pain what I plan on doing is marking entries more then 7 days overdue as dead, marking them as zero.

    What this basically means is any rides submitted more then 7 days late do not count, this way the spreadsheet is kept upto date, I don't have to chuck anyone off or pester anyone, wish I'd thought of this earlier.

    This ruling is effective as of today.
  • TheBigYin
    TheBigYin Posts: 5,682 Member
    edited January 2016
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    Jakess1971 wrote: »
    What this basically means is any rides submitted more then 7 days late do not count, this way the spreadsheet is kept upto date, I don't have to chuck anyone off or pester anyone, wish I'd thought of this earlier.

    See 1min24sec ;)

    https://youtu.be/o9pPWHIjU44?t=1m20s
  • Jakess1971
    Jakess1971 Posts: 1,208 Member
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    TheBigYin wrote: »
    Jakess1971 wrote: »
    What this basically means is any rides submitted more then 7 days late do not count, this way the spreadsheet is kept upto date, I don't have to chuck anyone off or pester anyone, wish I'd thought of this earlier.

    See 1min24sec ;)

    https://youtu.be/o9pPWHIjU44?t=1m20s

    Quite :)

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