2022 September Touring Challenge First Place |
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2022 Men's September Touring Challenge Champion Kevin Crews |
2022 Ladies' Division Runner-up Elana Merritt
2022 Ladies' Third Place
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
Before the real fun begins
John Rodino sprinting to the finish line
Patrick off the back, wait, what? |
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. Return to the September Touring Challenge Home Page To obtain the
most recent update click Refresh on your browser. Official 3RVS 2023 September Touring Challenge Leaderboard
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