Congratulations to the 30 SCCC faculty, staff and administrators who participated in the 2009 Bike to Work Month, Group Health Commute Challenge. This annual event takes place every May and this year our representation from SCCC grew from 21 to 30 members. As stated by the event coordinator at Cascade Bicycle Club:
"The 2009 Group Health Commute Challenge has come to a close and together -- as over 10,000 riders from 1,600 teams and 700 employers -- we have logged more than 1.1 million miles and 76,000 trips. Congratulations, all!
More than the impressive mile tally, we have shown again that bicycling is a smart, convenient, reliable and viable mode of transportation. And our growing numbers show that we care about staying healthy; protecting our air, water and climate; and building a livable and active community."
For a few interesting (and inspiring) SCCC team statistics, our 3 "Central Cranky Commuter" teams together logged 332.5 round trip commutes for a total of 3889 miles. This placed our college in 51st place out of 555 employers with group teams. (For those with a competitive interest, this topped teams from SSCC, Bellevue CC, Seattle U, Shoreline CC, Cascadia CC, SPU and Seattle Public Schools, just to name a few.) Our CCC team 1 had the highest miles, ranking them 121 out of 1032 group teams registered.
A few more stats: Mardy Gerrard in facilities logged the highest miles on our teams with 8.5 round trips and 416 total miles in May (Mardy rides from SCCC to his home in Port Orchard over the Tacoma Narrows)! Karen Strickland rode 19 round trips chalking up 347 miles! CCC team 3 had many shorter distance commuters and ended up with the greatest number of round trip commutes at 127.
Join us when we count our miles again in May 2010, to give our college 4 teams for the first time! If you have any questions you can contact one of the 3 current team captains: Jeff West, Ed Harrington or me.
David Moise
Captain, Central Cranky Commuters I
http://www.cbcef.org/btw/cc.html
Friday, June 5, 2009
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