2022 September Touring Challenge First Place
Ladies' Division Valerie Litznerski

 

2022 Men's September Touring Challenge Champion Kevin Crews

 

 

 

2022 Ladies' Division Runner-up Elana Merritt

 

2022 Ladies'  Third Place
Kelly Barnes

 

3RVS 2023 Touring Director Joe Bartels

3RVS 2022 Touring Director Scott Tomsits

3RVS President Amy Copeland

3RVS Membership Director Rick Bokern

 

2021 Touring Director Michael Souers

2020 3RVS Touring Director
Shane Powell

Before the real fun begins

 

John Rodino sprinting to the finish line

Patrick off the back, wait, what?

 


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2023 Three Rivers Velo Sport Approved September Touring Challenge Rules

3RVS Members – This year is the 10th Annual Three Rivers Velo Sport September Touring Challenge! It will begin on Friday, September 1st and run through Saturday, September 30th, 2023 (ending with the 3RVS Club Jersey Ride at Franke Park). Below are the official rules from Touring Committee, Joe Bartels and Elana Merritt. Please read and be aware of the rules.

Awards will be presented at our annual End of Season Party to club members who join this club challenge and log their cycling distance on Strava. Awards will be presented to 3RVS members who bicycle 500, 750, 1000, or 1610 kilometers (1,000 miles) from September 1st through September 30th, 2023. In addition to the awards just mentioned, podium awards will be presented to the top 3 female and male finishers.

Members' distances for any bicycling event, either a club tour, race, off road, riding by yourself, or smart trainer program such as Zwift are accepted as long as the ride is transferred to Strava showing details of the ride, such as distance, time, and a map of the course ridden.  

·       Class 1 and Class 3 E-bikes (no throttle) are eligible for distance medals, but not for podium positions. Class 2 E-bikes, with throttle power are not permitted and any distance ridden on such bike will not be counted for this event. 

·       No manual entries will be accepted unless your recording device fails during your ride, in which case you may enter your lost miles as a manual entry along with the portion of the ride that was recorded offering an explanation for the lost distance in the description box. 

·       Your Strava account must be open to accept 3RVS members to follow you without asking for a request. If having a public profile is a safety concern for you, you may email the Challenge Administrator, Steve Pequignot, to discuss accommodations - spequignot@aol.com.

To join the 3RVS September Touring Challenge, go to www.strava.com/clubs/3rvs and sign up. The Strava 3RVS September Touring Challenge page is a closed group for club members only. After you apply to join the challenge your 3RVS membership will be verified. Once verified your place on the roster will be approved.

·       If you were a 3RVS member last year and joined the 3RVS September Touring Challenge you are likely already pre-registered for this year’s challenge provided you are still a 3RVS member. If you are unsure if you are signed up go to your Strava Profile, look under Clubs for the Three Rivers Velo Sport September Touring Challenge logo. If it is on your Profile you are registered.

·       Non-3RVS members may not participate in this challenge and have been removed from the group page. Non-members may join 3RVS then sign up for the challenge. Only kilometers ridden after joining 3RVS will be counted in the challenge.

Your weekly distances must be posted on your Strava page at least once per week, but no later than 11:59 PM each Sunday. Questions may be directed to the Challenge Administrator Steve Pequignot at: spequignot@aol.com. Additionally, you may reach out to the Touring Committee – Joe Bartels and Elana Merritt, via email at: touring@3rvs.com and secretary@3rvs.com. Distance entries will conclude at 11:59 PM September 30, 2023. Results will be finalized and posted October 1, 2023. Daily rides must be entered to Strava and migrated to the September Touring Challenge by 8:30 PM to be included in the daily update. Keep in mind, when Strava has heavy traffic it sometimes takes up to 30 minutes for a ride to migrate from your page to the club’s September Touring Challenge page.

·       Please be aware of our privacy setting requirements during the challenge. All members must have their Profile Page, Activities View, Group Activities and Flyby set to Everyone. All podium finishers MUST have all rides open for review during the challenge. Any ride(s) not open for review will be deducted from monthly distance totals before the results become final October 1. Members who do not have these settings in place may also lose the mileage for distance awards.

·       To check/set your view settings open your Strava account, click on the second from right icon (your photo if you use one) along the top bar, select Settings on the drop down menu, select Privacy Controls in the left column, select Everyone in the Profile Page, Activities, Group Activities, and Flyby settings.

·       Using these settings everyone can view each of your rides during the challenge. After October 1, 2023 you may change your settings as you see fit.

If your ride is not included in a daily update it means that ride has not migrated to the club page by the time of the update (usually about 8:30 PM). That ride will be picked up during the following daily update except for Sundays. All weekly Strava mileage must be posted and migrated to the club’s Strava page no later than 11:59 PM each Sunday. After that time all prior weekly mileage is locked.

 

To view archived results of all September Touring Challenges Look here.

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Official 3RVS 2023 September Touring Challenge Leaderboard

Three Rivers Velo Sport September Touring Challenge  
  Final Results 10/1/2023   Day 30 of 30
3RVS members signed up for challenge to ride, 500, 750, 1000, 1610 kilometers in September
    Total Total Award 3RVS
Place Name: Kilometers Miles Level Member
1 Joe Bartels 3,417.12 2,123.3 1,610 yes
2 Mark Geiger 3,233.33 2,009.1 1,610 yes
3 Marty Smolinski 2,827.94 1,757.2 1,610 yes
4 Darren Williams 2,400.18 1,491.4 1,610 yes
5 Valerie Litznerski-Eicholtz 2,312.47 1,436.9 1,610 yes
6 Jonathan DeWitt 2,086.84 1,296.7 1,610 yes
7 Paul Mowery 1,813.57 1,126.9 1,610 yes
8 Russ Stephens 1,723.93 1,071.2 1,610 yes
9 Michael Toole 1,691.90 1,051.3 1,610 yes
10 Joey Bauers 1,663.58 1,033.7 1,610 yes
11 Kevin Crews 1,610.31 1,000.6 1,610 yes
12 Nathan Woods 1,542.23 958.3 1,000 yes
13 Tim Landrum 1,421.53 883.3 1,000 yes
14 Pamela Fennell 1,395.78 867.3 1,000 yes
15 Mike Miller 1,345.89 836.3 1,000 yes
16 Ramon Vasquez 1,338.01 831.4 1,000 yes
17 Susan Zuber 1,282.00 796.6 1,000 yes
18 Bill Crowley 1,202.18 747.0 1,000 yes
19 Steve Vorderman 1,201.38 746.5 1,000 yes
20 Steve Pequignot 1,178.84 732.5 1,000 yes
21 Brent Lockwood 1,168.06 725.8 1,000 yes
22 Dan Fineran 1,163.07 722.7 1,000 yes
23 Tom Lill  1,150.36 714.8 1,000 yes
24 Jody Thomas 1,130.08 702.2 1,000 yes
25 Rick Bokern 1,082.77 672.8 1,000 yes
26 Hugh Smith 1,075.69 668.4 1,000 yes
27 John Rodino 1,066.35 662.6 1,000 yes
28 Mike Neag 1,054.12 655.0 1,000 yes
29 Steve Edmiston 1,044.30 648.9 1,000 yes
30 Nancy Lichtensteiger 1,011.47 628.5 1,000 yes
31 Steve McDonald 970.92 603.3 750 yes
32 Carolyn Marie Trier 940.82 584.6 750 yes
33 Eric Lemay 927.30 576.2 750 yes
34 Keith Pulfer 918.29 570.6 750 yes
35 Scott McCauley 892.70 554.7 750 yes
36 Sean Martin 873.55 542.8 750 yes
37 James White 847.05 526.3 750 yes
38 Bruce Fisher 839.59 521.7 750 yes
39 Helen Best 822.05 510.8 750 yes
40 Amber Toole 805.32 500.4 750 yes
41 Aaron Hoover 791.96 492.1 750 yes
42 Dave Shaw 785.04 487.8 750 yes
43 Denise Snyder 758.64 471.4 750 yes
44 Jim Snyder 758.64 471.4 750 yes
45 Ian Shelden 744.32 462.5 500 yes
46 David Hathaway 737.72 458.4 500 yes
47 Zach Arnett 709.24 440.7 500 yes
48 Mark Witmer 678.66 421.7 500 yes
49 Krishna Balla 673.51 418.5 500 yes
50 Josh Thompson 662.73 411.8 500 yes
51 Marvin Vastbinder 634.24 394.1 500 yes
52 Krista Stockman 596.74 370.8 500 yes
53 Rosy Sarrazine-Saylor 582.10 361.7 500 yes
54 Rex Connelly 575.66 357.7 500 yes
55 Elana Merritt 563.27 350.0 500 yes
56 Don Cahill 532.53 330.9 500 yes
57 Clinton Allen 519.34 322.7 500 yes
58 Bill Meyer 517.40 321.5 500 yes
59 Kyle Schwyn 509.68 316.7 500 yes
60 Graham Wedeven 501.31 311.5 500 yes
61 Aneesh Balla 457.21 284.1   yes
62 Ann Linson 456.41 283.6   yes
63 Phil Snider 424.38 263.7   yes
64 Tim Johnston 412.47 256.3   yes
65 Dave Anderson 374.17 232.5   yes
66 Kylie Eicholtz 327.66 203.6   yes
67 Matt Sprunger 285.50 177.4   yes
68 Chris Myers 282.44 175.5   yes
69 Jared Paul Haller 275.20 171.0   yes
70 Jeannine Mettler 273.27 169.8   yes
71 Joe Kennedy 271.82 168.9   yes
72 Ron Herman 263.45 163.7   yes
73 Brian Meyer 251.22 156.1   yes
74 Elm J 234.96 146.0   yes
75 George Harris 225.15 139.9   yes
76 Jennifer Altherr 212.11 131.8   yes
77 Bernie Lohmuller 202.78 126.0   yes
78 Landin Geiger 199.40 123.9   yes
79 Ryan Epple 190.55 118.4   yes
80 Brad Smith 188.94 117.4   yes
81 Arthur Thompson 184.91 114.9   yes
82 Dan Stockman 162.22 100.8   yes
83 Adrienne Maurer 157.39 97.8   yes
84 Aaron Lilley 150.47 93.5   yes
85 Cody Benham 137.28 85.3   yes
86 Dave Dawkins 133.41 82.9   yes
87 Andrew Hayes 124.72 77.5   yes
88 Jay Farlow 121.99 75.8   yes
89 Jason Eicholtz 118.61 73.7   yes
90 K Lohm 117.16 72.8   yes
91 Tom Lilley 105.57 65.6   yes
92 Andrea Egeland-Epple 104.45 64.9   yes
93 Fergie Meek 95.11 59.1   yes
94 Brenda Wiley 85.78 53.3   yes
95 Trian Vian 66.79 41.5   yes
96 John Drebenstedt 45.54 28.3   yes
97 Victoria Kruse 37.98 23.6   yes
98 Charles Copeland 36.37 22.6   yes
99 Patrick Cole 36.37 22.6   yes
100 Chris Carter 6.76 4.2   yes
101 Jim Anderson 3.38 2.1    
         
         
         
  This challenge is for 3RVS members. Non-members may join 3RVS then enter the challenge.
  Only miles ridden during active membership will be counted during the challenge.
           
  Ladies' Podium Leaders: Kilometers  
1 Valerie Litznerski-Eicholtz   2,312.7    
2 Pamela Fennell   1,395.7    
2 Susan Zuber   1,282.0    
  Men's Podium Leaders:        
1 Joe Bartels   3,417.1    
2 Mark Geiger   3,233.3    
3 Marty Smolinski   2,827.9    
           
           
           
  total kilometers 77,147.01      
  avg km per rider 763.83