Absolute Final Results for the 2009 BCC!

Thanks again to everyone who helped make this another great year for the Bicycle Commuter Contest! My stalwart helpers here at Intercity Transit, the many volunteers who helped out with events like the Wrenchers Ball and the Earth Day Ride, the 50 sponsors (mostly local businesses), the local jurisdictions, the Team Captains and EmployeeTransportation Coordinators, and most of all, YOU- the people who got out there on your bikes and rode instead of driving a car!

I have finished entering the data from all the mileage Logs that came in after the deadline, and here are the revised numbers:
1633 people registered to participate.
899 of them turned in a mileage log.
102,379 total miles were logged by those who turned in a log.
11,703 was the number of days those people rode their bikes.
60 teams turned in mileage logs.
695 of the 1182 people on teams returned their log.
194 of the 449 individual participants turned in their log.

We did a mass mailing of coupon packets last week- if you turned in a mileage log, and have not received your coupon packet, please contact me ASAP with all your current contact info, and I will send you your coupons. My last day on the job for this year will be July 9, so if you need to reach me, do so before then! I will be checking in and updating the blog periodically over the summer, but will not be checking my Intercity Transit e-mail account with any regularity. I'll try to post a couple more Commuter Profiles before I wrap up for the year, and I'll be posting interesting links as I find them. Thanks for visiting, and supporting the BCC blog!

2009 BCC TEAM Winner Results

TEAM Total Miles
1 Clean Air Act 10,834.5
2 Evergreen 7,571.1
3 WDFW 6,065.1
4 TEAM BARLEY DAVIDSON 5,547.8
5 Green Wheels 5,530.9


TEAM Average Miles Per Rider
1 TEAM BARLEY DAVIDSON 462.3
2 DOT: Cyclical Psycho Cyclers 255.3
3 Green Wheels 212.7
4 ESRI 203.8
5 PNW Olympia 203.6


TEAM Total Days
1 Evergreen 729
2 Clean Air Act 665
3 WDFW 579
4 City of Olympia 478
5 Green Wheels 304


TEAM Avg Days/per Rider
1 Oly Bikes 28
2 Crossballers 23.5
3 Union Rollers 17.6
4 Team Fish Tale 17.5
5 ESRI 17.3


TEAM First Time Riders Recruited
1 Evergreen 46
2 Green Wheels 26
3 Clean Air Act 24
4 OHS Bikers 21
5Mental Wheelness 16


TEAM First Time Riders, Days Ridden
1 Evergreen 444
2 Pioneer Bear Cubs 223
3 OHS Bikers 187
4 Clean Air Act 177
5 City of Olympia 108


Outstanding Team Captains:
Travis Skinner - Evergreen
Jef Lucero - DOT
Kerry Tarullo - City of Olympia
Margaret Hill - Clean Air Act
Tanna Lambert - Bayview-Ralphs Thriftway
Stephanie Kerr - Green Wheels
Mark Longrie - Barley Davidson
Claire Kunkle - OHS

2009 BCC PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Here is a stripped-down version of the Individual Winners Results for the 22nd Annual Bicycle Commuter Contest. I'll post Team Results separately. Where there is more than one person in the same Place standing, a tie is indicated. I am leaving for a short vacation tomorrow, and will post a more detailed version with complete stats when I get back. Winners will receive a letter in the mail, which they must bring with them to the Intercity Transit Administrative Offices to pick up their prizes.

Thanks again for participating in the BCC this year!

First Time Juniors:
Most MILES
1st Dora Hamilton
1st Amelia Hamilton
2nd ShelbyHageman
3rd Katherine Franklin
4th Dominick Stevenson
5th Leo Gordon
5th Denali Cool

Most DAYS

1st Shelby Hageman
2nd Dominick Stevenson
3rd Forrest Milam
4th Katherine Franklin
5th Amelia Hamilton
5th Dora Hamilton

Veteran Juniors:
Most MILES
1st Lewis Whiley
2nd Quinn Johnson
3rd Ian Cates Doglio
4th AllieBreon
5th William Spidle

Most DAYS
1st LewisWhiley
2nd William Spidle
3rd Ian Cates Doglio
4th Keith Matthews
5th Jack Bowers
5th Aidan Lally
5th AllieBreon

First Time Youth
Most MILES
1st Luke Vannice
2nd ChrisMullen
3rd AshleyHetzel
4th James Kelly
5th TedKnudsen

Most DAYS
1st Luke Vannice
2nd Yoni Browning
3rd Evelyn Carlson
3rd Julia VanDerslice
4th Will Lykins
5th Chris Gage

Veteran Youth
Most MILES

1st Robert Miller
2nd Mirrah Stoller
3rd Claire Kunkle
4th Richard Medeiros
5th Seth Weaver

Most DAYS
1st Skyler Davis
2nd Milo Price
3rd Johnathan Wakefield
4th Lewis Faller
5th Claire Kunkle

First Time Adults
Most MILES
1st Overall Jonathan Hutton
2nd Michaela Favre
3rd Christopher Grande
4th David Van Haelst
5th DaleAckley
5th Jodi Halvorson
5th Mark McArthur

Most DAYS
1st John Paul Kwan
1st Erika Lari
2nd Ken Sutto
2nd Kat Dziekan
3rd Dave Sanford
4th Matthew Anderson
5th EmilyDriskill
5th Mitchell Vorwerke

Veteran Adults
Most MILES
1st Mike Braaten
1st MarkLongrie
2nd Russell Rogers
3rd Bob Kirchmeier
3rd Ann Butler

4th LisaFaker
5th John Hansen
Hon. Mention Rick Kanz

Most DAYS
1st Jacob Austin
1st Sam Kates-Goldman
1st Daniel Saldutti
1st Chris Hawkins
2nd Andrew Gordon
3rd Ann Butler
4th Justin Bombara
5th Jim Dorgan
5th Bil Fleming

FirstTime Seniors

Most MILES
1st Brian Emmons
2nd Bruce Crawford
3rd DonCarr
4th Linda K. George
5th LarryHolt

Most DAYS
1st Linda K. George
2nd Don Carr
3rd Thay Nguyen
4th Larry Holt
5th Bob Zeigler

Veteran Seniors:
Most MILES
1st Bob Lang
2nd Wayne Vander Pol
3rd DeweyWeaver
4th Douglas Woollen
5th Burke O'Leary

Most DAYS
1st Doug Woollen
1st Bob Lang
2nd Ted Focke
3rd Dewey Weaver
4th Steve Schroder
5th Lilly Love

2009 BCC Participation Results Are In!

Thanks for being a part of the Bicycle Commuter Contest- it has been another great year!
Thank you for being one of 1633 citizens to participate the 2009 Bicycle Commuter Contest. Your commitment to choose your bicycle as your mode of transportation during the month of May helped make our community a more livable, sustainable and healthy place to call home. This year’s participants recorded 100,836 miles on 11,500 round-trip
commutes, preventing roughly 100,000 pounds of C02 from entering our atmosphere, and measurably reducing pollution and traffic congestion. Your efforts and your transportation choices are greatly appreciated. Thanks for riding your bike, and going the extra mile!

I am tallying the final results of the 2009 Bicycle Commuter Contest today, so any mileage logs received from this point forward (until we mail out coupons) will be gratefully accepted, and you will receive your coupon packet, but it's too late to win any prizes or have your numbers included in our final results totals.
I will be announcing the winners of our many prize categories, and awarding prizes at our Award Ceremony at the Olympia Farmers Market this Saturday, June 20, at 2pm on the main stage.
Please join me in celebrating another great year for the Bicycle Commuter Contest! (you need not be present to receive your prize, if you are a winner)

3rd Annual “Bike the Deschutes” Event

When: July 26, 2009, start any time between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m.
Where: Tumwater Historical Park, 777 Simmons Road SW, Tumwater

Cost: Free!

Celebrate summer at the 3rd Annual Bike the Deschutes event on Sunday, July 26.
The ride offers 5, 20 and 30 mile routes designed for families and recreational cyclists. All three routes begin and end at Tumwater Historical Park. Each route provides opportunities to learn about the Deschutes River watershed. Riders can start any time between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m.

Children and adults who want to join in the fun can make salmon art and a delicious "edible aquifer". The event includes live music, educational displays, free snacks, and a raffle drawing for bike gear and other great prizes donated by local businesses.

New for 2009 is the incorporation of Olympia’s Woodland Trail into the 20 and 30 mile routes. Bike the Deschutes has gone from 100 riders in the first year to 200 last year. The team’s goal for 2009 is 300 riders. Please help make this year’s ride the best Bike the Deschutes yet!

To pre-register for the event or for more information, log on to:
http://web.mac.com/bikeyourwatershed/Site/Welcome.html
Or Google “Bike the Deschutes”

LAST CHANCE!!! TURN IN YOUR MILEAGE LOGS!

Many, many thanks to the many of you who participated in the BCC this year, and have turned in your mileage logs. There are still quite a few of you out there who haven't managed to get that mileage log turned in though, so if that's you, or someone you know, you can still turn it in! We REALLY want to know how much you rode your bike in May! Thanks again, and hope to see you at the Farmers Market on Saturday, June 20 at 2pm for our Award Ceremony!

Counting, Counting, the miles are adding up!

I know, I know, the suspense is unbearable! I am cross-eyed with entering the data into our database, and I still have probably a full day's work ahead of me, just to get the data entered. Then I'll have to tabulate the results for teams and individuals in many different categories, and figure out what prizes to give to which winners, and hopefully I'll be all ready in time for the award ceremony on the 20th! Forgive the lack of entries on the blog- I'm just crunching numbers as fast as I can....

Commuter Profile #6 - Constance Lantagne

What is your age? 55
What is your occupation? Contract Administrator
How many years have you been commuting by bike? First time since the late 90's before the new bridge on Harrison
How many times have you participated in the Bicycle Commuter Contest? Second time
Describe your current average or usual commute (distance, terrain, urban/rural, etc.) 18 miles round trip. Ride up Mudd Bay Rd from Kaiser to Providence St Peter hospital. Terrain urban and well Ralph's Thriftway hill in the morning (let's me know I'm alive at 6:00 am and not too old to pump up that long hill) and back up Harrison at night (I really am able to leave work at work, there's not time to labor over work only labor up the hill)
What got you started bike commuting? St Peter's Environmental Committee joined the hospital commute contest to lower our carbon footprint.
How have you adapted to make bike commuting work for you? (I bought padded bike shorts soft on the tush :) I leave the house at 5:30 am so that I'm basically the only vehicle riding down Harrison hill as a result over the month of May I've gotten more confident manauvering the hill at a fast pace. You see, I have no problem working hard to bike up hills, it's the going down hills fast that I had to get used to. Also, when I'm riding through town if it looks like people driving cars don't recognize me I stand up on my pedals so that they see me. I also stand up in parking lots so that I'm more visable. I learned how to fold cloths so that by the time I get to work they look like I just took them off the hanger. It also helps to have showers at the hospital. And when "that guy" (don't know who he is but he's a power house) bikes by me in the mornings as I'm working my way up Ralph's Thriftway hill and leaves me in his dust in an instant it seems; as the days go by he doesn't leave me in his dust as quickly and that makes me feel like I'm getting stronger and not laboring so much up "that hill".
What are some of the benefits you have experienced from commuting by bike? I am braver going down hills fast, the celulite is turning into muscle, and my husband brags about my bike commute to everyone so even after 31 years around each other, he has new bragging material and it's cool to have a veteran biker like him think that my 18 mile commute is something to brag about. Also, in May the lilacs and rhodies were blooming making it a delicious fragarent ride. When I ride my bike to work in the morning I feel like I'm not in auto pilot (re. wake up, get in the car and presto I'm at work) riding my bike takes personal effort and it's something I do just for me :)
What is it that keeps you going, especially when the going is tough (weather, darkness, inertia, etc)? I don't know if I have to get song rights but, when the hills get tough I break into the song "...I ride my bike, I roller skate, don't drive no car, don't go too fast but, I go pretty far..." that is my mantra and voila I'm up the hill :)
How do you choose your route (most direct, least traffic, most scenic, etc)? The most direct route in the morning, on the way home I ride into the neighborhood to the right of Harrison hill to stay away from the commute traffic and the heat of the road and I have several ways to go home so I don't get bored.
What style of bike do you ride to commute? Nashbar Road Warrior bike -you could say it is a mountain bike.
Any words of wisdom for the beginning commuter? Stay alert!!! Watch for people in parked cars you are going to drive by, they will open their doors without realizing that your bike is rolling by. Buy padded biking shorts. Go ahead and step out of your comfort zone and try commuting once you've done it for a month or so you will find it is one of the best ways to personally lower your carbon footprint, get stronger mentally and physically. It's very empowering.

" Bridge the Gap" Phase II Ground-Breaking a Success!

City, County and State elected officials prepare to dig in as community members look on, at the June 6 Ground-Breaking Ceremony for the bridge over Martin Way, the second of three bridges which will connect the northern segment of the Chehalis-Western Trail with the southern segment, and the Lacey Woodland Trail, further enabling both recreational and practical cyclists and walkers to move safely and efficiently around our community.
(Pictured, left to right: Tumwater City Council Member Pete Kmet, Thurston County Commisioner Karen Valenzuela, Olympia Mayor Doug Mah, Lacey Mayor Graham Sacresen, Thurston County Commisioner and Intercity Transit Board Member Sandra Romero, and Congressman Brian Baird)

Today is the Day!

Time to Turn in that Mileage Log!

We had a record turn-out for the 2009 Bicycle Commuter Contest,

now let's make sure we follow through and record a record level of participation.

A big part of the impact of the BCC comes from the data that we collect about the cycling habits of our community. It is also a great way to provide feedback to us about the contest, and to the local jurisdictions about cycling conditions in our area. So please, turn in your Mileage Record at the Olympia Transit Center today!

They are open until 7pm, and if you left your log at home, they are downloadable here:

http://www.intercitytransit.com/files/13/Bicycle_Commuter_Contest_2009_mileage_log.pdf

Thanks so much for helping make this a great year for the Bicycle Commuter Contest, and stay tuned for more info about our Award Ceremony, and the winners of the different categories in the contest!