September set a new record for miles and trips:
Miles: 1683 (1088 in August)
Trips: 232 (173 in August)
Contributors over 100 miles this month:
Peter Norquist 375 miles
David Beals 200 miles
Jim Van Dyke 164 miles – including a longest single commute record of 84 miles when he cycled to a workshop
Steve Sherman 138 miles
Ursula Goldstein 125 miles
Alan and Julie Casamajor 112 miles – This couple rides most errands together; the miles are counted like a car trip, and not doubled.
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Top Trippers:
Steve Sherman 34 trips
Alan and Julie Casamajor 29 trips
Hilary and Kristie Gross 26 trips
Karen Swift 22 trips
And a tie between Ursula Goldstein, Julie Harryman, and Melissa Ott at 17 trips.
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Our best new member showing award goes to Pat Walsh (referred by Julie Harryman) who commuted 14 times and logged 45 miles.
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Inspiring messages from notable BCC team members:
Bob Coomber—whose two wheels consist not of a bike, but a wheelchair—writes: “I'm not commuting anywhere but am averaging 5 miles each day - weekends included (ESPECIALLY weekends!). Lots of trips downtown (4 mile round trip, once daily) and dozens more on paved and dirt trails. I make it a point to get to downtown Livermore while leaving the car at home. And once there, who knows where I'll end up? It may be Pleasanton for lunch (20 mile round trip), Shadow Cliffs (15) or points either direction on the regional trail network. Tomorrow it'll be Bollinger Canyon to Danville on the Iron Horse Trail (10) and a morning of working the East Bay Regional Park District's both at Danville's "Art in the Park".
Amador high school senior Melissa Ott writes in her Green Gal blog (www.greenbeangal.blogspot.com) that the majority of high school students drive “once they get their licenses or have their parents drive them because they don't realize how easy it truly is to ride. There does seem to be some change, though. I used to be one of only two girls at the bike racks. Now there are at least four of us who ride everyday and two or three more who ride every once in a while. And it feels like I see more adult commuters on bicycles, but it could be because I'm more aware of it now than I was before.”
Thanks for cycling. Together we can be the change.
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This is so inspiring! I live in a town of 32,000 in eastern New Mexico. The land here is very flat, and from one point to any other point in the town is a maximum of ten minutes by car. We have often talked about what a perfect place this would be if the whole population left the cars at home and rode bikes.
ReplyDeleteI went to UC Davis when there were just 5000 students and everyone rode a bike. It was a wonderful model!
I found my way here via the Blog Action Day website, by the way.